How-To
Introducing Gravatar: Your Globally Recognized Avatar
Description
This short introductory video introduces the concept behind and quick-start setup of Gravatar – a free service designed to make your life easier, by associating a free-floating avatar with one or more of your email addresses. Get your own Gravatar via your WordPress.com profile page, or Gravatar.com
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WordPress.org (248), WordPress.com (112)
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July 26, 2009
July 26, 2009 at 7:34 am
Great introduction and overview. What we need is for more of the web to support this service as I’m still finding myself manually adding my avatar to all sorts of different sites and forums. Would be great to one day say that Gravatar is living up to its name as globally recognized.
Michael, you know how to put on a show
July 27, 2009 at 2:05 am
Of course, if you’d like to see more sites add support for Gravatars, feel free to suggest to your favorite sites that they look into the idea and add the functionality.
July 26, 2009 at 2:50 pm
is very good video.
July 27, 2009 at 10:12 am
Nice intro.
It would be fantastic to be able to track people with Gravatar. I would love to see an rss-feed of all the sites where I have written comments (which were Gravatar-enabled).
Maybe even getting an the opportunity to see if there was follow-up comments to the comments I’ve written on the web. Because I always tend to forget the places I write them
July 27, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Very interesting stuff.
July 27, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Nice its a very good vid
July 27, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Nice video.
Me and some of my friends are promoting the use of Gravatar on our websites as we do agree with the concept of what it’s for and it would be great to see this become something really big.
July 28, 2009 at 3:16 am
Wow, the video is great. How did you do that?
July 28, 2009 at 3:44 am
Excellent.
July 28, 2009 at 5:20 am
I would like to see gravatar merge/replace the OpenID logins
July 28, 2009 at 11:47 am
Great video – well explained
July 29, 2009 at 2:07 am
Thanks for all the feedback!
July 29, 2009 at 7:03 am
Errrm… okay, that video was more of an infomercial. Let’s face it: Gravatar is just another webbug. A cleverly implemented one, but still, a webbug. I won’t use it.
July 29, 2009 at 6:47 pm
nice one!
July 31, 2009 at 5:16 pm
This its so cool
[...] you can watch Gravatar, the motion picture! Which was put together by the ever helpful Michael Pick. If you’ve ever had trouble [...]
August 11, 2009 at 4:59 am
Nice its a very good video…haha thanks
August 11, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Simple, yet fun and briefly explains very well. Love the opening graphics.
August 13, 2009 at 6:27 am
Wow, very informative and educational. congratulations for coming out with such presentation.
August 15, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Simple, yet fun and briefly explains very well. Love the opening graphics
Thanks for all the feedback!
August 17, 2009 at 4:15 am
Thank you for the explanation. It’s very educating.
August 18, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Your “Gravatar the Movie” link totally humorized me. Just HAD to click on such inviting 3 words.
Imagine that – a grand MOVIE about gravatars – love it. I can see myself creating short videos about my blogs and sites and calling them,
“Cdin-x the MOVIE” – HILARIOUS.
I thought your idea so entertaining that will embed. You gave me a laugh and a smile, and that’s worth a ton.
Didn’t know Gravatar as a webbug, but these days everything we do is connected to an IP, perhaps rightly so.
Anyway, Gravatar makes my life easier. : )
PS: What accent is that? Nice. : )
August 26, 2009 at 8:44 am
Aha, interesting!
September 6, 2009 at 5:16 pm
we’ll see… i like the concept
September 17, 2009 at 10:46 pm
very informative!
September 19, 2009 at 4:44 am
Great job on this video. I am glad someone explained it nice and simple.
October 3, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Wow, brilliant!!
October 3, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Good intro video… Thanks!
October 6, 2009 at 7:56 am
Thanks that helped a lot.
October 12, 2009 at 6:10 pm
I just suggested it to the admin of a forum I frequent.
October 17, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Great video. Thanks
October 22, 2009 at 2:51 am
Lol this is a great vid!!!!!
November 19, 2009 at 8:36 am
Thanks that helped a lot.
December 31, 2009 at 7:46 am
LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE SITES USING GRAVITAR!!!
Fantastic concept, so easy to use… How do we get more Blog/Review sites to embrace this kind of LOVIN???
Keep up the good work Michael.
January 7, 2010 at 10:58 am
oh I absolutely love this
January 13, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Great idea, love to see every site on the net implement this.
February 3, 2010 at 1:32 am
Good video but the Gravatar doesn’t work on WordPress. All that comes up on the posts are a small red x in a wide box – the Gravatar doesn’t show up and yet the Gravatar shows up in all kinds of other places I visit the web.
February 8, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Have you checked to see if there’s a problem with where the image is being served from? If you’re having trouble with a plugin on your self-hosted blog, check out the WordPress.org support forums at http://wordpress.org/support/.