Jon experiments with Gravatar in Gmail. I would love to see more of this. We also need a better way to get Gravatars into your Apple address book / iPhone for people that don’t have a set picture.
Jon experiments with Gravatar in Gmail. I would love to see more of this. We also need a better way to get Gravatars into your Apple address book / iPhone for people that don’t have a set picture.
You mean like this Matt?
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Internet-Utilities/Avatars.shtml
This is a great idea, I’m hoping Gravatar support will come to more services directly without scripts.
I’m thinking Google and Live accounts, maybe even social media.
“One photo to rule them all”
Found an app yesterday which plops Gravatars into the iPhone contact list.
But is it paid?
Do you think Gmail would do that? they always wanted to run light weight threads to make all their sites to load faster. Probably gravatar integration is going to slow it down and my bet is that google wouldn’t want to do it 🙂
That’s a neat little hack. Not quite enough to make me switch back to Firefox for GMail (instead of Chrome), but it’s a positive sign of things hopefully to come in a more cross-platform, cross-browser fashion.
gravatar in twitter will also make sense, especially for early adapters as in Gmail. One less config / setting to care
I agree. The number of times I’ve been using a website or service on my iPhone and thought “wish this had gravatar support”… man its not even funny. It’s cool to know there are other likeminded peeps out there though 😛
So Ma.tt. Quick question. Best camera? 🙂
Google should just hurry up and buy twitter and gravatar.
Oh, and it should buy me an Aston Martin.
The Gravatar Importer for Google Contacts imports Gravatars and syncs them with Google contacts using Gravatars so you see Gravatars in your Gmail account. I’ve been using this since October 2008 and love seeing faces in my Gmail.
Why would anyone would want Gravatars on Gmail, or on anything else, really? I am not trolling, but what is a Gravatar? From a real photo to a random something, it can represent anything. Why would I want to have, lets say, the picture of a shoe associated with John Doe?
Because most people, like you, use their face and I remember the image more than I remember the name or email address.
I have some AppleScript code that I’ve been using to update my Mac Address Book pictures with Gravatars. Those then sync to the iPhone, of course.
Your post prompted me to clean up the code, document the process, and make it available for everyone to use.
I just posted the first part as Gravatar, AppleScript, and Address Book Pictures, with the rest to follow soon.
Okay, I just finished posting what ended up being a four-part series (so far). Filling Mac Address Book Pictures with Gravatars, offers a complete script to update your Mac Address Book contacts with Gravatars.
Everything is GPL so I hope I’ve built a set of scripts and tutorials that will help others do useful and creative things with Gravatars.
I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions. Thanks.
So, Matt doesn’t use Intense Debate? Hm.
Have you tried working with the OpenID project to spread adoption of Gravatar?
If you use Google Sync to sync your iPhone contacts with your Gmail contacts (works with Google Apps too), then it brings your GMail contacts into the iPhone. Phone numbers, emails, addresses, photos, everything. And it keeps them in sync too, using a push method. Also syncs the calendar entries from your Google Calendar.
http://www.google.com/mobile/products/sync.html