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If You Wouldn’t Say It in Person, Would You Say It Online?

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January 27, 2014

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This question is at the center of the recent security breach involving Disqus, a widely used comment hosting service, and Gravatar, a service owned by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg’s company Automattic. Gravatar allows users to maintain a consistent profile picture across websites enabling a Gravatar plugin. Until recently, Disqus enabled Gravatar which uses an MD5 hash, an algorithm designed in 1991, to mask the email addresses associated with each Gravatar account. Gravatar’s MD5 hash has been proven to be easily hackable. In December, a group of investigative journalists at Sweden’s Researchgruppen was able to de-anonymize the identities of thousands of […]

We Are the Avatar Generation

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February 25, 2013

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As my good friend once said, We are the avatar generation. It really couldn’t be more true, could it? I mean, we are the first generation to even have dedicated folders on our local systems that house our possible digital avatars, right? (Please admit that I’m not the only one…) Sure, we have services like Automattic’s Gravatar that helps create these automatically via email addresses but when I sign up for a new service I like to choose just the right one for the new web service. It even gives me an opportunity to create a new one as well. I was […]

Gravatar Adds Korean, French Translations

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January 15, 2013

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Gravatar stands for “globally recognized avatar” which wouldn’t be totally true if it weren’t also globally accessible everywhere if it was just in english – especially in terms of their landing and product page. So with the recent release of French and Korean translations adoption can increase even more in those areas of the world. Being ethnically korean myself it’s always a pleasure to see my culturally native language on an Automattic property! To be sure though, my first language is far-and-away english but it’s satisfying to know that there are incredible volunteers that are contributing their time to help provide these very valuable […]

Manage Your Gravatar with iGravatar Mobile App

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January 2, 2013

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Gravatars are great as they are a visual cue and reference for your online identity – it’s hard to imagine blogs without this signal now that they have been around for some time! Managing them is typically done through the web interface but now there’s another mobile alternative called iGravatar that allows you to manage it via your iOS device (Android coming soon). Upload images directly for your use, assign them to the right email address, and be on your merry way:

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