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.

  @lskrocki

Saturday, May 17th

@cdash Added a section for the extended Sun team of C/Vs: http://wikis.sun.com/display/twitter 12:10am

Hmmm...@zefrank is looking to secretly sub in for you on your facebook profile: http://twitter.com/zefrank/statuses/813154957 12:00am

Just hit my 200th Favorite (some funny, some informational): http://twitter.com/lskrocki/favorites 8:06pm

@TwitFit Five hours of rototilling & now the planting begins. You can bet your sweet abs that I'm counting it as a workout. 8:05pm

Via @TimBray a tear-jerking post about an earthquake victims farewell to her baby she saved: http://tinyurl.com/64ns83 8:02pm

Vacation day. Mostly for yard work, but it's something I enjoy. 3:29pm

@ditucci If you're really an old soul, you'll camp out with all the other old ladies for New Kids on the Block tickets. 3:08pm

@pistachio Love slides 27-31 in relation to anything yes, but is especially applicable to this space. 3:06pm

@willbldrco Sounds great! They're getting a UV filter on their pond, so they'd probably prefer sometime after that. Koi auction tomorrow! :) 3:01pm

@marc_dierens Happy to present. Pls email me a proposed date/time so I have time to fix my hair (I understand your group uses webex). 2:59pm

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