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Chinposin Gets an Enterprise Client

May 14, 2009 – 9:46 pm

I am completely beside myself to say that we have our first paid enterprise client for Chinposin.  What started as a laugh has turned into something useful and of relevant to visualising communities online using twitter.

The Eclipse Galileo Birds Nest has been put together to help spread the word about the lastest release of Eclipse and to act as a central resource to see twitter activity around the Galileo release.

I’d like to say a huge thanks to James Governor for continuing to hand wave on this one.  He has shaped this release and relentlessly kicked me to make it happen.  This is his baby.  I am simply the puppet that has turned the hand waving into php.

We now have something that is actually quite useful for building a community around twitter and this reflects James’s vision in terms of functionality and usefulness.

What I hope this does is to start to visualise the conversation and the faces in the community.  We will continue to build detail into the Eclipse Galileo Birds Nest and I’m looking forward to seeing the journey.

The main functionality:

Anyone that follows @eclipsegalileo joins the Birds Nest

Everyone gets a permalink avatar with an Eclipse Galileo overlay on their image to show support and help spread the word, like http://galileo.chinposin.com/a/yellowpark/avatar.png

Everyone gets an rss feed of their avatars http://galileo.chinposin.com/a/yellowpark/avatars.xml

The Eclipse Galileo Birds Nest has an avatar feed at http://galileo.chinposin.com/rss/mainavatars.xml

Various widgets to embed the avatars wherever you want

Track the twitter conversation around the Eclipse Galileo release.

Tweet commands to change your avatar overlay image

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Avatar Love

March 23, 2008 – 1:31 am

OK, so I thought I should put a few points down regarding the whole idea behind chinposin.com, the importance of avatars, the fun you can have with avatars and the significance of avatars.

Chinposin was borne out of James Governor asking me:

“Can you grab all the chinposin avatars from twitter?”

I said, “Sure, no problem”

I’m not going to expand on the features list, but the study of avatars has become an obsession.

This week, I decided to change my twitter avatar to monotone twitter cyan. If you know twitter, you know the colour. If not, go there and find out.

Soon after, there was an abundance of avatars, all monotone. The point came to me, as usual, after a glass of wine. But I was amazed how people went monotone and followed the craze.

Let it be said that me and james are thinking alot about avatars. Avatars really interest me and James. Hugely. And if I am not emphasising that enough, let me underline it. We fucking like avatars.

Tracking avatar behaviour and watching how the visual community changes is pure wizard. That iswhere we see chinposin. Tracking avatar behaviour across time.

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