Category: Gravatar
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Open Profile Data
Did you know that in addition to the hCard markup on profile pages, we support a number of other completely open, standards-based formats for accessing profile data on Gravatar? These formats are all accessed using a similar method to how Gravatar images have been requested. Full details are provided in the Developer Resources section of…
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Now supporting Gowalla, Google and GoodReads
In our never ending quest to bring awesome profile power to gravatar users, we’ve added support for three awesome services: Gowalla, GoodReads and Google Profiles. And yes, it is true, given we are called Gravatar, we do have a secret preference for G named services. You can add these new services to your Gravatar Profile…
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Thunderbird Extension Lets You Add Gravatars
By downloading the “Display Contact Photo” extension from Thunderbird, you can now view Gravatars, creating a personalized touch to all your email messages: How to Install To set this up, first follow the download and installation directions found on the extension page above. Then, to specifically enable Gravatars, follow these steps: 1. Go to Tools…
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Gravatar Gets Around
Since our last update, we’ve spotted a number of implementations of Gravatar around the web that we think are pretty neat. Here are a couple of them: MailChimp now supports Gravatar, loading them up as part of the member profile for any subscribers who belong to mailing lists you manage. Yoav emailed to let us…
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How Global Can We Go?
Gravatar has always been about GLOBALLY Recognized Avatars. The Global part of that came from Gravatar being really simple to implement in almost any environment. Let’s see what we can do to make things global by being available in every language! Previously, a few very helpful volunteers made sure that the Gravatar website was available…
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Faces of CPAN
CPAN was a pretty early adopter (outside of blogs) of Gravatar, and have been using them for quite a while to put a face to the name of the people who are developing the core modules of the Perl programming language. I just happened to come across this awesome page that I had to share,…
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New Gravatar Algorithm?
I’m personally a big fan of StackOverflow, so I was excited to see them implement Gravatars for all of their users a while back. Now they’ve gone and done something even more amazing — temporarily replaced their Gravatars with UNICORNS! Read their full post for some details on the implementation, but basically it works like…
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Gravatar Module for Phorum
Phil C. wrote in to let us know he’s developed a module to make Gravatars available within Phorum. Websites using Phorum software to run their forums can easily drop this Module into their installations, no customization required (although customization is easily supported). Check out the full list of features and grab the Module here. Thanks…
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A new look for Gravatar.com
A few days ago we released an updated look for Gravatar.com. We really felt that the old front page was cramped, stuffy, and heavy. So we worked hard to lighten it up, make it more immediately informative, and gave everything a little more room to breathe. Playing a starring role on the new front page…
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What has been going on in the world of Gravatar
Coming Soon to a Theater Near You Now you can watch Gravatar, the motion picture! Which was put together by the ever helpful Michael Pick. If you’ve ever had trouble explaining exactly what Gravatar.com does to your friends, family, neighbors, long lost friends, and that dude down the street, then this is the screen cast…
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