Posts Tagged with ‘gravatar’

Meet Emad Ibrahim. He's a software architect. He quit his job last month to start his own company.
I found his blog via Hacker News, and started following, mainly because I am fascinated by anyone quitting a job to start a company. I personally can't imagine having the money to live on, much less the courage, to do it.
I figured maybe this time next year there would be an announcement of a demo of something. Possibly an invite-only alpha I could [...]

Word Press has released the much anticipated Word Press 2.5. I've been using Word Press for quite a while now on my personal blogs, and I must say they win huge points for what was perhaps the easiest installation ever of a new version. In the past, upgrades have broken my blogs for anywhere from hours to days, but not this time. This time each blog and all of my existing plug ins worked flawlessly right away, with no [...]

With so many big names jumping on the OpenID band wagon and lending the identity application credibility, it's no wonder third party applications are already springing up to take advantage of the surge. Some of these applications are existing ones that are simple adding features from the OpenID API. Some of them capitalize on ideas that were already out there and some try hard to be new (no easy feat in this Web 2.0 age where everything seems to [...]

Gravatar is a Web 2.0 plug in for blogs that allows you to see yourself everywhere you comment or participate online. It's a pretty neat way to "brand" yourself or your company with just a few simple clicks. Once you activate the Gravatar network for you, you begin to see your logo or image associated with every comment or post you make on Gravatar enabled blogs.
This application simplifies the process of branding and avatar association to a [...]