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.

  @seanosteen

Saturday, May 17th

@missrogue where do you land on the toilet paper pet peeve? I'm an over the topper myself ;) 2:16am

@alexknowshtml it's fashionably acceptable. However, you get bonus points if you "bedazzle" the schwag! 2:15am

@windley By chance is Adobe running any software updates? For some reason Adobe updater always turns my fans into a jet engine. 1:59am

Fedora Core 9 is currently queued up in µTorrent. Choke on that Comcast/Plaxo! 1:52am

@raines godspeed I-5 road warrior 1:20am

@digitalkitty Ask the salesperson to point out the oxygen injector nozzles! 1:14am

@digitalkitty So the next question, which OS get premier placement on the resurrected T41? 1:08am

Friday, May 16th

Our passat has a turbo charger and it does not like hot weather. Time between gas pedal and GO can be measured in seconds 8:46pm

Trying to straighten out some subversion conflicts 6:08pm

iPhoneWebDev meetup at @BerkeleyCowork at 8PM. 1:18am

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