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A comment on the idea "Adopt Gravatar support" in Get Satisfaction:

Any 'official' word from Get Satisfaction about this Eric?... lol – Alex, on February 23, 2009 00:06

Alex replied on February 22, 2009 23:15 to the idea "Adopt Gravatar support" in Get Satisfaction:

There is an OpenID alternative to avatars: www.openvatar.com

However, I would love Automattic to support OpenID in the gravatar service - perhaps, instead of referencing an MD5'd email address in the Gravatar URL, they could have an MD5'd OpenID URL...?

I might email them and raise the question.

Alex replied on September 16, 2008 11:25 to the discussion "I'm making a iPhone/iPod touch Ping.fm app!" in Ping.fm:

I'm also up for testing, running iPhone 3G 2.1

Have any idea for the UI? I was looking to make an app like this but I'm more of a UX Designer, give me an email maybe? alex [at] hempsworth [dot] com

Alex shared an idea in Socialthing on September 09, 2008 23:32:

Gravatar Integration

We now have the ability to choose an avatar from different services around the web, what about Gravatar? The 'globally recognized avatar' would make life so much easier when trying to update your avatar across the interweb.

I'm trying to urge various web services to start using Gravatar, could SocialThing be one of them? Please?!

Alex started following the problem "Uniquity email command results in HTML displayed as text in Gmail" in Mozilla.

Alex replied on August 29, 2008 02:17 to the idea "Mozilla Ubiquity" in Ping.fm:

I'm also using http://trodrigues.net/ubiquity/pingfm/ and I'd definitely recommend it, +1 from me!

Alex marked one of Cappella's replies in Ping.fm as useful. Cappella replied to the idea "Mozilla Ubiquity".

Alex replied on August 21, 2008 10:34 to the idea "Gravatar Support?" in Twitter:

Just recieved a reply from Ev at Obvious:

"We haven't really thought about adding Gravatar support, but I like the idea. Will think about it."

So perhaps there's light at the end of the tunnel!

Alex replied on August 20, 2008 21:53 to the idea "Gravatar Support?" in Twitter:

I've sent off an email to Twitter directly, hopefully hear something soon!

Alex marked one of Sahil Desai's replies in Tumblr as useful. Sahil Desai replied to the idea "Gravatar for Tumblr".

Alex replied on August 20, 2008 16:10 to the idea "Gravatar Support?" in Twitter:

Would it be possible for a Twitter employee to let us know whether this idea could be considered?

A comment on the idea "Gravatar Support?" in Twitter:

Since the Gravatar acquisition by Automattic almost a year ago the service has been great - partly due to the PHP rewrite, and the better hosting capabilities of the Wordpress.com framework. – Alex, on August 20, 2008 16:08

Alex replied on August 20, 2008 15:58 to the idea "Gravatar Support" in Pownce:

Haven't heard anything about this in over 6 months now, is there any way we can push this feature forward? Perhaps get some feedback off users to find out how many would really find it useful?

Support for Gravatar integration to Twitter has been growing recently, I think the same kind of people would appreciate its inclusion in Pownce.

Alex started following the idea "Adopt Gravatar support" in Get Satisfaction.

Alex Hempton-Smith replied on June 20, 2008 19:48 to the idea "Gravatar Support?" in Twitter:

I think that's an attitude a lot of large web companies should take; they all share the same goal, of making the user's experience easier and more enjoyable. By embracing other services, especially Gravatar I feel, they would go further to reach this goal.

My real aim is to get Gravatar support for all of the web services I use - Google will certainly be a biggie!

Alex Hempton-Smith marked one of Sahil Desai's replies in Twitter as useful. Sahil Desai replied to the idea "Gravatar Support?". Alex Hempton-Smith and 5 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Alex Hempton-Smith shared an idea in Tumblr on June 08, 2008 17:53:

Gravatar for Tumblr

I'd really like the option to use Gravatar on my Tumblr account rather than uploading an image. It would make mine, and many other people's life so much easier!

Alex Hempton-Smith started following the idea "Auto refresh would be spiffy" in Socialthing.

Alex Hempton-Smith marked one of Matt Galligan's replies in Socialthing as useful. Matt Galligan replied to the idea "Socialthing! URL".

Alex Hempton-Smith replied on April 16, 2008 03:38 to the idea "Flickr VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" in Socialthing:

According to the blog post, uploading video is exactly the same as uploading pictures, no changes to the Flickr Uploadr app, so I'm guessing no major changes, if any, to the API.