The straw that broke this camels back

Phil Sherry    says:

At least it's "twitter" and not "twittr".
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Jon Hicks    says:

Yeah, but its not enough!
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Phil Sherry    says:

You're pissed because it's not Comic Sans, is that it?
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

John Oxton    says:

Now you see, someone should buy Gravatar off Tom (or throw him some VC money) and sort this **** out once and for all. Centralised buddies... API and Micro floor matts for all.... yay... tag it web 4.0
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Luke Dorny (luxuryluke)    says:

Rubberised Micro Floor Mats … uh, dotcom.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Blakes Seven    says:

Do the rubberized floor mats have rounded corners?
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

kapowaz    says:

Gravatar? Schmavatar. It needs work before it'll handle mine (and I suspect others') usage; it shouldn't assume that there is a 1:1 relationship between Individuals and Email addresses. Every place I see that use gravatars fail to pick mine up because I don't use a single email address for everything.

If these social sites just had an XFN importer then I suspect that'd solve 99% of your problem here, Jon.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

John Oxton    says:

I didn't say Gravatar was perfect, hence the need for work. The trouble with XFN is it's for lonely geeks... Gravatar has a fairly straightfoward UI and is a bit more accessible to the world at large.

And, the last time I looked, you could associate multiple email addresses with your Gravatar... it's been a while since I looked though.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

kapowaz    says:

I stand corrected then! That wasn't there last time I checked. I'll have to give it a go. I'm not sure about the lonely geeks thing though, although I will agree with the geeks part. What it really needs is some so-easy-to-use-it's-stupid-not-to service that does it all for you. I imagine there's half a dozen already in development. Heck, all it'd take is some extra markup on a site like Friendster or MySpaz and you're halfway there (although I can't see any lonely geeks signing up on the latter unless seriously pressed).
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

kapowaz    says:

Oh, I see...

Add Features
Multiple Email Adresses ($5.00)

Jon Hicks    says:

Cheapskate!

I agree with both of you, XFN would be good, but as John says, its very much geeks only. The Gravatar model is a good basis, but as John says it needs to be taken up by someone big so that it can given as a free service.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

kapowaz    says:

Hmm. Yahoo...? Although as I recall, they have their own avatar system. It's probably got a web services API for non-Yahoo sites as well, I imagine.

As far as paying for features of gravatar goes, most sites that feature avatars (that I use) don't support it, so I don't see the value of paying for extra addresses for those few that do. Especially when really all I'm really doing is making somebody else's site look better.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Jon Hicks    says:

Forget the paying for email addresses thing, the basic idea of gravatar is a good one. Name, email address, avatar - simple. Its not about making someone site look better (you could argue it does the opposite), its about recognising someone.

A centralised identity/buddy system for social web apps ain't gonna happen, so this is all just so much fart anyway.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Simon Clayson    says:

I've run out of time too. Can I have a centralised, email, contacts, buddies, username, password, avatar, gravatar, skpe id, IM id, mobile number compatible with everything please. While we're at it.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

honestdave says:

John Oxton said:
Now you see, someone should buy Gravatar off Tom (or throw him some VC money) and sort this **** out once and for all. Centralised buddies... API and Micro floor matts for all.... yay... tag it web 4.0

well put, yea, i wish gravatar was adopted by a couple of big name sites.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

pigsonthewinguk    says:

Never mind that, can you pas a message to B*ll Odd** for me?

Small world, eh? ;-)
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Jon Hicks    says:

Ha! Hi Andy! :D
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

krekro says:

will check it.
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

uebersetzung says:

like the page.
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

sandrosandro says:

OpenID?
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

Jon Hicks    says:

That would be good, although keeping track of friends is a little outside the remit of OpenID
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

Barack Obama is my homeboy says:

twitter: for those who REALLY have nothing better to do with their time. It's the new bored.com
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

Jon Hicks    says:

You're so wrong. SO wrong.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

Luke Dorny (luxuryluke)    says:

twitter is still 2 demigods fighting constantly.

Geektool vs Indulgence.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

factoryjoe    says:

Great discussion. You'll have to keep your eyes peeled for M*Today and Rhyzomatic. ;)
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

szunajcz says:

I had the same problems when buddies where duplicated, annoying,


Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )