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The avatar problem

I’ll be at ONA09 for the next few days, where I’ll meet, probably, a few hundred people I know from the Internet. But they don’t know me. I mean, they know what I say and write and produce online, but most of them know my avatar better. That’s the one.  I’m sitting outside at a […]

Posted byRyan SholinOctober 1, 2009Posted inIdeasTags: avatars, blogging, ona091 Comment on The avatar problem

How Important are Avatars? – Bokardo

Joshua Porter on the importance of avatars in social applications: “Trust is a crucial byproduct of avatars that we can leverage in design. In one of my current consulting projects we’re working on what you might call “time to first known avatar”. That is, we are trying to speed up the time it takes for […]

Posted byRyan SholinJune 1, 2009January 14, 2011Posted inNewstangleTags: avatars, social networking, Technology, web design
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