Kaleidoscope-y Gravatars!
May 5, 2008
Dunno why but all the blank (Gr)avatars on my Blog have suddenly turned Kaleidoscopic! [Laymanspeak] Avatars or Gravatars are the small images that appear beside the commenter’s name [/Laymanspeak]. WP users will have their own avatar and others will have a gravatar based on their email id. Till now people who had neither would have shown up blank but now I see wierd kaleidoscopic images!
They sure brighten up the comments page. Especially on posts which have hundreds of blank-avatar-ed comments. And in the case of my blog, such posts are dime-a-dozen. Head over to any of the Radio posts or the Contact page and enjoy the Kaleidoscopes 
[Update] Seems WP has already announced it! The Default Avatar Options announcement was made earlier today which not only speaks about the new Kaleidoscopic avatars - which are called Identicons btw - but there are also Wavatars and MonsterIDs to choose from as the avatar for commenters who don’t have any. WTG WordPress!
Entry Filed under: Awareness, Blogging, Daily Rants, Happenings, Random Thoughts, Web Travails, Wordpress. Tags: Avatars, Colours, Comments, Gravatars, Identicon, Images, Kaleidoscope, MonsterID, Wavatar.
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Rekha | May 8, 2008 at 9:51 pm
they are colorful anyways
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lazybug | May 11, 2008 at 12:06 am
I noticed them today. Sure look nice..a lot better than the blank avatars.
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Chittaranjan | May 11, 2008 at 12:17 am
@Rekha: They are!
@LB: Yup. You can change them to MonsterID’s and Wavatars
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Arul John | May 14, 2008 at 12:20 am
Gravatars have been around for a while. They probably got bored with the default dull avatar, so they decided to add some colour to it.
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Chittaranjan | May 14, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Yeah. Most comments have the empty ‘Mystery Man’ avatar which was kinda dull….so they spruced it up