TinyPic & Gravatars
December 18, 2008 | Posted by apokalyptik
Michael C. writes in to let us know that TinyPic users now get their Gravatar for their profile image. Thanks TinyPic, we think you’re pretty grrrrreat yourselves!
As a side note I think it’s really telling that a service which hosts images and videos for people to easily link to decided to use Gravatar for their profiles. TinyPic has the infrastructure in place to do this. They already have uploading, caching servers, and a CDN figured out. They might even have croppers and image effects floating around. But 2 things are important here. The first is that profile images still aren’t the at core of what they want to provide to people. Second, and more importantly, is that enabling Gravatar support is good for their users — It’s easy, its simple, and it gives them value far beyond that individual profile page.
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Skyler Says:
December 18, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Gravatars are just so convenient… plus you couldn’t make them easier to set up once you sign up for an account. The other day I had to tell some friends that visited my site to get on here and get some Gravatars made… which spurred me to make a post about it to get people a bit more informed. I’m sure if your server was overloaded, this was the likely culprit (haha yeah, I wish).
http://www.heavymetalgeek.com/archives/what-the-hell-is-a-gravatar/
Chetan Says:
December 19, 2008 at 4:06 am
WOW, I love tiny pic, and now its with Grava, cool.
thesh14819 Says:
December 19, 2008 at 5:32 pm
yeah agreed but….
becareful uploading your images because they wont be hosted for a long time.
some people are really mean and they go around and then click “report offensive” then what do you know? 30 seconds later BAM the photo is deleted and the link isn’t in good use anymore
Sara Churchill Says:
December 20, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Good for them!
varlogblog Says:
December 20, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Good point, there must be some place where to be stored all these avatar images, however here stands a word about a huge amount of small images and of course even bigger bandwidth problems :S
rollchan Says:
December 21, 2008 at 6:44 am
I just love Gravatars. da best. ;P
Engineering Says:
December 23, 2008 at 1:11 pm
it’s better to use our own server
edison Says:
December 26, 2008 at 11:43 pm
gonna try this one… kinda sound interesting.. cheers mate…
biginternetmarketing Says:
December 30, 2008 at 1:32 am
interesting…
maz Says:
January 3, 2009 at 4:06 am
gravatar is de best….!
iskandarx Says:
January 4, 2009 at 8:06 am
Sound like great!! Seen gravatar is the greatest.
Tabloid Internet Says:
January 12, 2009 at 1:54 pm
We’re new in gravatar.. thx for the tool’s. Now our pic appear on all of our comments at the friends blog. thx again…
littledevil45 Says:
February 2, 2009 at 1:34 am
Hi Cool BTW
Super Jumbo Mortgage Says:
February 21, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Good to know about Tiny Pic
flravatar Says:
March 5, 2009 at 3:47 am
good!
iris612 Says:
December 3, 2009 at 9:08 am
It is convenoent for us .I like tinypic…..