Ambient Avatars { for ambient intimacy

Embed your ambient avatar:

Please note: We need to adjust the thumbnail size for the avatar. Coming soon.

WTF?

Adventures in time and face. Chinposin may be for Fridays, but ambient avatars are an everyday thing. This is still a prenatal release, but we think the concept has legs.

When we built chinposin, we noticed that people like to play with their avatars, but there wasn't any way to track the changes. Frankly, we wanted to look at our own changes on an avatar timeline. So here it is. All you need to do is follow us on twitter.

And so now we’re storing your avatars on an ongoing basis. That wasn’t so painful now was it? We’re just at the very beginning though of what will hopefully be a long and interesting journey. It started with Friday chinposin, with its need to “update” your avatar with a twitter command. But we wanted to simplify things and this is the result.

Now if you follow @chinposin on twitter we’ll automatically store any changes to your avatar. There are some obvious privacy implications so it is important we state up front that the only information we’re storing are pictures. If you want to opt out now it’s as easy as unsubscribing from @chinposin. If you want us to delete any avatars we’ve already stored we’d be only happy to make them disappear in a puff of greasy black smoke. Another important note- when we started @chinposin we were a little free and easy about blogging and using flickr images that you tagged “chinposin”. But some of you had marked the pictures as “all rights reserved” which makes life difficult for us. While we promise never to use your images from twitter/ or flickr in another context without explicit permission to do so, its pretty obvious that be following @chinposin you’re opting into allowing us to store some avatar data, even if it’s just a picture.

It’s time for active avatars – and a sustainable opt-in community. That’s what we’re working on. If you have any issues or problems, or good ideas for new features please twitter them as an @reply to @chinposin or send an email to chris[at]yellowpark[dot]net or jgovernor[at]redmonk[dot]com.

  @lewiswebb

Friday, May 16th

@tommalcolm you mean like Chun-Li? 5:57pm

@timhoang @jazcummins I'd rather be pretty than feared 5:50pm

@timhoang I've not even started.. you should see the look of fear in her eyes 5:44pm

@jazcummins stop messing about on twitter and do your timesheets 5:27pm

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@deirdre great - now I can check that my notes tally with what was actually said! 11:19am

@deirdre is there an ETA on the Internet World session podcast? 10:45am

my Argentinian personal trainer killed me at the gym last night... I'm so unfit right now 9:24am

Thursday, May 15th

I don't believe it...another foe to defeat in SEO land... this one's a primary school kid! 5:16pm

@paulwalsh seen the PR Week Story - love it... "not right for the job"! 3:47pm

We're still not finished building the interface or the features that we have planned. Bear with us, this is a Prenatal Release, afterall.