Recently at Babeled we have added a new feature that is not so new – Gravatars (globally recognized avatar). These beauties are the little avatars (images) that you can now see in the comment section of all of the posts on our site. Since we are a multi-author blog it seemed appropriate for us to add some pictures of ourselves in a hopeless effort of bringing a little more personality to this place.
Of course, we want to encourage everyone else to do the same. The steps are simple and the service is FREE. All one must do to obtain the almighty Gravatar is follow this simple incantation:
- Traverse the perils of space, time, and the internets to gravatar.com
- Select the link to Sign up now! – Do not be fooled as it is cleverly named Sign up now!
- Enter in the e-mail address you use when commenting on various blogs or sites supporting Gravatars.
- In moments you will receive a confirmation e-mail from Gravatar sent to said address asking you to merrily click the link for activation of your new Gravatar account.
- Now simply upload a picture, crop it to your liking, click finish and wait a few minutes for your Gravatar to appear.
Once the blood, sweat, and tears that five minutes of sitting down can bring has passed – you too can look like a tool cool when babeling on our site.
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Holy crap batman! I have a banana in my mouth!
“Traverse the perils of space, time, and the internets”
Close your eyes girl, look inside girl, let the sound take you awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
It was only a matter of time before avatars dominate the Internet. In 1995, I beta tested two virtual communities: Worlds Away and The Rhelm. These communites introduced the concept of an avatar from a cyberspace perspective (a customizable graphical handle).
Greg, doesn’t the word avatar go way back, as we have discussed during Carnivale episodes (the polor shifting of good/evil from generation to generation)?
It’s nice to see a web 2.0 mashup that centralizes an avatar database. A universal application will, no doubt, spread like fire throughout cyberspace. Web 3.0 is just around the corner (just over a year). Look for gravatars to be a big part of the machine readable semantic web.
sorry, I meant The Realm
and polar, lol
Just wanted to check my gravatar
I don’t know why it didnt work
yipeee!
Oh man, hahaha!
I followed the steps.It working now.Thanks for the update.
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