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.

  @siliconchris

Thursday, April 10th

trying to setup a federated portal while still thinking about that strange night yesterday - killer for my concentration to work that was 7:48am

Wednesday, March 12th

Lets all welcome Cherrypie 10:44am

Thursday, March 6th

trying to activate a development transport in SAP HCM! Stupid thing won't do. Maybe I just drop by the developer and ask what it does anywa 8:29am

Saturday, March 1st

trying to finalize a presentation for portal integration for next week while in the same moment doing serious realtionship talks - heavy 7:42am

Friday, February 29th

joining chinposin for the next chinposing day 9:31pm

Sunday, February 24th

searching the roots of metatron on wikipedia and pantheon - quite interesting stuff. I think I should learn more about all this angel stuff 11:30am

Wednesday, February 13th

cool day today. will drive to hamburg later on and have a nice couple of beers. tomorrow i have a workshop about ESOA. my favourite topic 9:56am

Monday, February 11th

back from the project office. a bit of simpsons and then the cellar - part 2. it's either me or him and i will not give in 5:22pm

can anyone tell me, why documentation takes almost always more time than the actual installation within an IT project? 10:10am

just arrived at my project office. will head for a coffee and a brötchen (that's german for roll) 8:11am

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