Comments on: Raising the standard for avatars http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/raising-the-standard-for-avatars/ This can all be made better. Ready? Begin. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:24:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: links for 2008-04-01 | Chris Dalby Untangles Networks http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/raising-the-standard-for-avatars/comment-page-1/#comment-98847 links for 2008-04-01 | Chris Dalby Untangles Networks Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:37:55 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/raising-the-standard-for-avatars/#comment-98847 [...] FactoryCity » Raising the standard for avatars Bloody good ideas for standards on avatars. Just the sort of thing I was thinking for @chinposin. (tags: chinposin avatars standards hcard) [...] [...] FactoryCity » Raising the standard for avatars Bloody good ideas for standards on avatars. Just the sort of thing I was thinking for @chinposin. (tags: chinposin avatars standards hcard) [...]

]]> By: sylvia http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/raising-the-standard-for-avatars/comment-page-1/#comment-87153 sylvia Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:40:09 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/raising-the-standard-for-avatars/#comment-87153 omg i was searching 'avatar' in Google images and yours popped up.... weird. lol how the hell you been? omg i was searching ‘avatar’ in Google images and yours popped up…. weird. lol

how the hell you been?

]]> By: Four Starters - » OpenAvatar - Combining OpenID and hCard http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/raising-the-standard-for-avatars/comment-page-1/#comment-86040 Four Starters - » OpenAvatar - Combining OpenID and hCard Mon, 21 May 2007 09:09:25 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/raising-the-standard-for-avatars/#comment-86040 [...] by the recent post by Chris Messina (“Raising the standard for avatars”), I started to think how we could do this using [...] [...] by the recent post by Chris Messina (“Raising the standard for avatars”), I started to think how we could do this using [...]

]]> By: Alper ÇuÄŸun http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/raising-the-standard-for-avatars/comment-page-1/#comment-86012 Alper ÇuÄŸun Tue, 15 May 2007 10:44:18 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/raising-the-standard-for-avatars/#comment-86012 Let's just do this. We wanted to include avatars on our weblog FourStarters.com and my friend Cristiano added some kind of plugin to pull these from MyBlogLog. We had some minor issues configuring mybloglog, but why should we use yet another third party site to store profile information when most of this is already in OpenID. FourStarters supports OpenID for comments (with wpopenid) already, pulling in the avatars from there looks like a tiny step. hCard already has class="photo". So what to do? Embed or link hCard to your openid? Let’s just do this.

We wanted to include avatars on our weblog FourStarters.com and my friend Cristiano added some kind of plugin to pull these from MyBlogLog.

We had some minor issues configuring mybloglog, but why should we use yet another third party site to store profile information when most of this is already in OpenID. FourStarters supports OpenID for comments (with wpopenid) already, pulling in the avatars from there looks like a tiny step.

hCard already has class=”photo”. So what to do? Embed or link hCard to your openid?

]]> By: Arun Vijayan http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/raising-the-standard-for-avatars/comment-page-1/#comment-85069 Arun Vijayan Fri, 04 May 2007 20:38:04 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/raising-the-standard-for-avatars/#comment-85069 It was fantastic. I too was thinking about Avatars in the same way. Magic URLs are really not good. With RubyonRails, Codeigniter and similar 'next gen' web frameworks won't support serving a JPEG from web root (ocourse u can hack it though). Probably Mattias' idea must work better. I look forward to see how it goes. But ultimately we need a reputation management and aggregation system which does all these (friends,avatars,profile,geolocation). Will MySpace think this way? Will they setup openIDs for members (like AOL did)? It was fantastic. I too was thinking about Avatars in the same way. Magic URLs are really not good. With RubyonRails, Codeigniter and similar ‘next gen’ web frameworks won’t support serving a JPEG from web root (ocourse u can hack it though). Probably Mattias’ idea must work better. I look forward to see how it goes.

But ultimately we need a reputation management and aggregation system which does all these (friends,avatars,profile,geolocation). Will MySpace think this way? Will they setup openIDs for members (like AOL did)?

]]> By: Chris Messina http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/raising-the-standard-for-avatars/comment-page-1/#comment-82926 Chris Messina Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:41:08 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/raising-the-standard-for-avatars/#comment-82926 Yeah, I now believe that magic URLs are also a bad idea and that something more like rel-avatar or rel-photo in the context of an hcard should suffice. Yeah, I now believe that magic URLs are also a bad idea and that something more like rel-avatar or rel-photo in the context of an hcard should suffice.

]]> By: Daniel E. Renfer http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/raising-the-standard-for-avatars/comment-page-1/#comment-82609 Daniel E. Renfer Sat, 28 Apr 2007 03:08:56 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/raising-the-standard-for-avatars/#comment-82609 I agree with Edward that magic URLs are something that we should probably be avoiding. Personally, I'd rather see people linking to a FOAF file (or hCard or RDFa if you prefer) and from there provide links to the various resolutions of avatars. While FOAF can be difficult at times for the average user, a couple highly ranked tutorials providing people the text that they can copy/paste would take care of that. I agree with Edward that magic URLs are something that we should probably be avoiding.

Personally, I’d rather see people linking to a FOAF file (or hCard or RDFa if you prefer) and from there provide links to the various resolutions of avatars.

While FOAF can be difficult at times for the average user, a couple highly ranked tutorials providing people the text that they can copy/paste would take care of that.

]]> By: Edward O'Connor http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/raising-the-standard-for-avatars/comment-page-1/#comment-82486 Edward O'Connor Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:27:21 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/raising-the-standard-for-avatars/#comment-82486 <a href="http://bitworking.org/news/No_Fishing" rel="nofollow">Fixed URIs like <code>robots.txt</code> and <code>favicon.ico</code> are bad</a>, but otherwise I love the idea. Perhaps something along the lines of feed autodiscovery would be workable? (Also, somethings messed up with your OpenID auth -- I've had to leave that field blank in order to comment at all.) Fixed URIs like robots.txt and favicon.ico are bad, but otherwise I love the idea. Perhaps something along the lines of feed autodiscovery would be workable?

(Also, somethings messed up with your OpenID auth — I’ve had to leave that field blank in order to comment at all.)

]]> By: hugh don http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/raising-the-standard-for-avatars/comment-page-1/#comment-81259 hugh don Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:36:32 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/raising-the-standard-for-avatars/#comment-81259 It's sounds like a good idea! It’s sounds like a good idea!

]]> By: Shoob » Blog Archive » links for 2007-04-23 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/raising-the-standard-for-avatars/comment-page-1/#comment-79544 Shoob » Blog Archive » links for 2007-04-23 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:19:50 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/raising-the-standard-for-avatars/#comment-79544 [...] Raising the standard for avatars Chris Messina se penche sur les avatars . Il nous partage une idée qu’il avait essayé de pousser sur Flock pour trouver un format avatar à l’instar des microformats. (tags: microformats openid identity standards web) [...] [...] Raising the standard for avatars Chris Messina se penche sur les avatars . Il nous partage une idée qu’il avait essayé de pousser sur Flock pour trouver un format avatar à l’instar des microformats. (tags: microformats openid identity standards web) [...]

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