Ambient Avatars { for ambient intimacy
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2008-03-24 18:49:32
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.
@tcpeterSaturday, May 17th
OK, Twitterati. The Gladstone run has about ended. Assuming I'm awake later, I'll catch you then. Else, see you in the AM. Be excellent, 'K? 12:23am
@whitneyhess From smiling, I hope. My fondest memory of my wedding day was how much my cheeks hurt at the end of the day. I was a giddy boy. 12:19am
@mikedoe Sadly, that's nothing. CNN reports Mike Huckabee "joked" Obama had to duck gunman at NRA conv. http://tinyurl.com/57spng Not. Cool. 12:08am
I'm trying to be witty, erudite and sophisticated. But, truth is, I just don't have anything to say tonight. Hope you're having good nights. 11:43pm
@frankmartin Is it wrong to toast Robert Mondavi with a Miller Lite? It's all that I had with me on the train. 11:30pm
Does the traffic to your blog make as little sense to you as mine does to me? Very, very strange. 11:10pm
@pauladrum No worries. Catch you next time you're in town. 11:04pm
@graywolf The answer to almost everything fashion related changes when > 30. ;) 1:51pm
New blog post: Small Business Ecommerce Link Digest - May 16, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/5e6xye 1:49pm
Just in case we thought the Democratic primaries were too nice: http://tinyurl.com/4c7359. This crap is what keeps voters home in November. 1:44pm
We're still not finished building the interface or the features that we have planned. Bear with us, this is a Prenatal Release, afterall.
