How many of you have heard about Gravatar? Mostly Wordpress bloggers might know this as Wordpress supports this in its latest version, 2.5 and above. Gravatars are basically tiny little images that act as your online image identity.
Instead of uploading your favorite image or avatar at every single site, now you can upload to only one site and you can have a global Gravatar. This application is widely used in most Wordpress blogs these days. You could even see it working here on this site. Once you upload your image on Gravatar’s site and assign an email address for it, your Gravatar will now appear on all blogs that have it enabled. As long your email address provided in the field corresponds with your Gravatar email address.
I highly recommend, bloggers to activate their sites with Gravatars. Why? Because people want their face to published! Actually it gives a commenter more honor and prestige for their contribution. And comments section in a blog is obviously very important as that’s where the community is.
If you read the Gravatar development blog, the team actually encourages more and more developers to make use of Gravatars just as how Wordpress did. Gravatar as well runs on an open platform so any developer could make use of it wisely. I recently stumbled upon one application that provides Mac OSX address book an option to download the Gravatar of your contacts who has them. That’s really applicable. Even by syncing them onto mobile phones, it benefits. Hope it gets even more interesting as time goes on.
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Tags: Apple, avatar, gravatar, mac, osx, wordpress
