So I was reading Elliot Jay Stocks’s post on the Apple tablet and noticed all the fancy gravatars his commenters had (maybe because they were not as small as the ones in the blogs I frequent). One in particularl that caught my eye was Jeremy Swinnen‘s and made me wonder if, like Sam Wilson‘s, it […]
Holding a Conference? Spice It Up With These Geeky Ideas
The mark of anything well-made is found in the details, and when it comes to geeky conferences for designers and developers, organizers are coming up with geeky new ways to spice up the offline event experience. Badges Gravatar-enabled WordCamp Badges Let me first say that Gravatars, or globally recognized avatars, should be a staple in […]
Will Twitter avatars render Gravatar irrelevant?
I can’t help comparing Twitter Images (tweetimag.es), which extract a user avatars with just a URL to the more established universal avatar provider Gravatar, which is dependent on an email address. While there are certainly more email users than any web service out there, Gravatar isn’t quite as buzzworthy as Twitter; it’s a more specific […]