Tag : avatars

The reaction to our Twitter home page take over has been overwhelmingly positive. Thanks everyone for their feedback and comments. It was really fun working on it and seeing it in use in real time has sparked off lots of ideas about how we could use something similar as our permanent home page once we’re back home. Somehow we need to find a way of showing our social presence and network on the web, whilst combining the conversations around us.

My favourite tweet about our home page?

I’ve been collecting the profile pics of people on Twitter who represent themselves with a single eye.

Fine, that’s really normal.

But now, Twitter have made my ‘hobby’ easier with Twitter Lists.

I’ve been able to create a list called ‘eye-avatars’ and I’d be very grateful if you could send me links to more and more ‘eyes’ – I figure we all know an eye-guy or girl.

For some reason – probably the fact that it’s a close-up of a single, leering eye – Shane Richmond’s Twitter avatar really stands out. Of all the people I chat with on Twitter, his seemed the most grotesque, the most horrifying and I let him know this. Shane disagreed and challenged Teh Twitter to find examples of scarier avatars, even recommending a few.

My avatar has changed.

Uh oh. Big deal, you might think – some people change their avatars as often as they change shoes. And so do I – but not here at my work blog.

For the past half year I’ve been writing under a stranger’s face – a “spare” avatar bestowed upon me by Isaac until yesterday.

One (or two) of the things that characterise the Web 2.0′sphere is (a) an almost unnatural predisposition to omitting vowels and (b) delight in new stuff.It was only a matter of time before The Onion entered the fray with frrvrr.com, touting a social network service that introduces you to people you don’t know, based on shared purchase history and your browsing habits, medical records and CCJ’s.