Introducing Gravatar: Your Globally Recognized Avatar
This short introductory video introduces the concept behind and quick-start setup of Gravatar – a free service designed to make your life easier, by associating a free-floating avatar with one or more of your email addresses. Get your own Gravatar via your WordPress.com profile page, or Gravatar.com
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38 responses to “Introducing Gravatar: Your Globally Recognized Avatar”
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Great introduction and overview. What we need is for more of the web to support this service as I’m still finding myself manually adding my avatar to all sorts of different sites and forums. Would be great to one day say that Gravatar is living up to its name as globally recognized.
Michael, you know how to put on a show 🙂
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Of course, if you’d like to see more sites add support for Gravatars, feel free to suggest to your favorite sites that they look into the idea and add the functionality.
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is very good video.
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Nice intro.
It would be fantastic to be able to track people with Gravatar. I would love to see an rss-feed of all the sites where I have written comments (which were Gravatar-enabled).
Maybe even getting an the opportunity to see if there was follow-up comments to the comments I’ve written on the web. Because I always tend to forget the places I write them 🙂
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Very interesting stuff.
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Nice its a very good vid
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Nice video.
Me and some of my friends are promoting the use of Gravatar on our websites as we do agree with the concept of what it’s for and it would be great to see this become something really big.
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Wow, the video is great. How did you do that?
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Excellent.
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I would like to see gravatar merge/replace the OpenID logins
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Great video – well explained
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Thanks for all the feedback!
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Errrm… okay, that video was more of an infomercial. Let’s face it: Gravatar is just another webbug. A cleverly implemented one, but still, a webbug. I won’t use it.
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nice one!
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This its so cool 😀
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[…] you can watch Gravatar, the motion picture! Which was put together by the ever helpful Michael Pick. If you’ve ever had trouble […]
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Nice its a very good video…haha thanks
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Simple, yet fun and briefly explains very well. Love the opening graphics.
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Wow, very informative and educational. congratulations for coming out with such presentation.
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Simple, yet fun and briefly explains very well. Love the opening graphics
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Thank you for the explanation. It’s very educating.
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Your “Gravatar the Movie” link totally humorized me. Just HAD to click on such inviting 3 words.
Imagine that – a grand MOVIE about gravatars – love it. I can see myself creating short videos about my blogs and sites and calling them,
“Cdin-x the MOVIE” – HILARIOUS.
I thought your idea so entertaining that will embed. You gave me a laugh and a smile, and that’s worth a ton.
Didn’t know Gravatar as a webbug, but these days everything we do is connected to an IP, perhaps rightly so.
Anyway, Gravatar makes my life easier. : )
PS: What accent is that? Nice. : )
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Aha, interesting!
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we’ll see… i like the concept
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very informative!
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Great job on this video. I am glad someone explained it nice and simple.
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Wow, brilliant!!
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Good intro video… Thanks!
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Thanks that helped a lot.
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I just suggested it to the admin of a forum I frequent.
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Great video. Thanks
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Lol this is a great vid!!!!!
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Thanks that helped a lot.
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LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE SITES USING GRAVITAR!!!
Fantastic concept, so easy to use… How do we get more Blog/Review sites to embrace this kind of LOVIN???
Keep up the good work Michael.
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oh I absolutely love this
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Great idea, love to see every site on the net implement this.
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Good video but the Gravatar doesn’t work on WordPress. All that comes up on the posts are a small red x in a wide box – the Gravatar doesn’t show up and yet the Gravatar shows up in all kinds of other places I visit the web.
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Have you checked to see if there’s a problem with where the image is being served from? If you’re having trouble with a plugin on your self-hosted blog, check out the WordPress.org support forums at http://wordpress.org/support/.
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July 26, 2009
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