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So Many Sites, So Few Avatars

Posted by ben, Fri Oct 05 23:56:00 UTC 2007

I have like 15 sites that want a picture of me to show as an avatar. Which is great except if I ever decide to change things up. I don’t feel like like going to, or remember, all the sites I use at any given time so they are rarely in sync. I really wish people would jump on an avatar service like gravitar so that we don’t have to go all over the web tracking down old images every time we feel like changing. Plus, if you are using rails, and why aren’t you, then you can use this plugin to make it very easy to integrate.

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  1. Jan Blanchard 10.08.07 / 13PM
    Open ID for photo. I like this a lot - Is this easy to implement?
  2. Ben 10.12.07 / 00AM
    Very easy ... you can use that plugin I mentioned earlier or to construct a url to a gravatar image manualy it looks like http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=5fde02269fa53e53a38a6cc286ca6bd0 where the gravatar_id is the MD5 hash of the persons email address. That link is for my gravatar. You can also specify fallback images if the person doesn't have a gravatar.

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