Fixing homogeneous, faceless avatars (was: Google Wave?)

[John Abreau]

A similar tool is at gravatar.com.  See my test page at

    http://blu.org/grav.php


On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen
<rozzin at geekspace.com> wrote:
> Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>   Here's what I learned about Google Wave tonight:
> [...]
>> BASIC INTERFACE
> [...]
>>   Contacts list.  Mine appeared to default to people from my Gmail
>> contacts who had Google user accounts with Wave access.  It picks up
>> the user icons ("avatars") from elsewhere in Google's account/profile
>> system.  The icons are used a lot, which can be an issue if nobody has
>> uploaded an icon, leaving everyone identified by the same generic
>> icon.
>
> And maddog also wrote:
>>
>> It also helps if people put their pictures into it, so you actually
>> "see" who is there.  Having the same faceless avatar for everyone
>> does nothing for collaboration.
>
> On that note, I actually have a tool to help with that:
>
>    http://www.hackerposse.com/~rozzin/stickfigurator.cgi
>
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