Actually, I think Gravatar is absolutely related to OpenID, from a number of perspectives.
For one thing, all Gravatar accounts are keyed off of email addresses -- and many sites use Gravatar silently to autofill a user's profile photo/avatar on signup by pinging Gravatar with the hash of the user's email address. Second, this process of doing a third party lookup on an identifier and getting back metadata could be useful for reputation services, preference delivery, and so on (i.e. 4th party-provided discovery). Third, it suggests that whatever metadata the user doesn't provide herself, a site author may attempt to harvest elsewhere. It just reinforces the value of adding profile-photo/logo/avatar data into AX and SREG. Chris On Wednesday, December 9, 2009, Jonathan Coffman <[email protected]> wrote: > Santosh, you're absolutely right, the Gravatar service doesn't actually have > anything to do with OpenID -- but rather is the best example I can find of > making profile pictures even remotely portable between sites. > What I was trying to get across was that I think it would be worthwhile to > think about how something like AX might in the future be able to support > transporting information about the user's preferred profile pic alongside the > rest of their information. > Jonathan > > > On Dec 9, 2009, at 9:52 AM, Santosh Rajan wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > I haven't seen you before around here. My apologies. I may have missed your > earlier posts. Can you please explain how avatars (or gravatars) are related > to OpenID? > ThanksSantosh > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Jonathan Coffman <[email protected]> > wrote: > Avatars would definitely be huge. I can't tell you how frustrating it is as > a user to update my avatar on all of the hundreds of sites I may encounter > that require login. > Professionally, I've run into problems when bringing up Gravatar as a > potential option... but again, that sets the bar so high that users are > pretty unlikely to even go through that process. > Jonathan > > > On Dec 9, 2009, at 2:09 AM, Chris Messina wrote: > +1. I think those are the basic profile building blocks for social software. > The avatar is something we particularly need for openid. > > Sent from my iPhone 2G > On Dec 8, 2009, at 22:06, John Panzer <[email protected]> wrote: > > For my use cases, the important things are, unscientifically, > 1. Display name2. Avatar / photo3. Preferred link to human-readable online > presence -- profile, blog, whatever strikes their fancy. > > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:38 PM, David Recordon <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sure that the data is wildly out of date, but at the time the SREG > fields > ( <http://openid.net/specs/openid-simple-registration-extension-1_0.html#response_format>http://openid.net/specs/openid-simple-registration-extension-1_0.html#response_format) > were based on looking at what a few hundred different sites were > asking for. > > I unscientifically think that the extremely common stuff is: > - Name > - Avatar / photo > - Email address > > Scientifically, we should actually put some effort into looking at > sign in pages again. :) > > --David > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Jonathan Coffman > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Out of curiosity, beyond the email discussion below what are the primary > > metadata needs around the other major (PoCo) fields? > > Speaking to the use-cases I work off of here at PBS, I'm primarily > concerned > > about emails being verified (and a signup date is also useful) and am most > > inclined to trust the OP (especially if it were a white-listed or otherwise > > vetted iDP). > > Jonathan > > > > On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Chris Messina wrote: > > > > Is it worth looking at how Facebook handles the passing of profile data? Or > > is their architecture/use case different? > > > > > <http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Users.getInfo>http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Users.getInfo > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Breno de Medeiros <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:01 AM, John Panzer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > For "o -- Chris Messina Open Web Advocate Personal: http://factoryjoe.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/chrismessina Citizen Agency: http://citizenagency.com Diso Project: http://diso-project.org OpenID Foundation: http://openid.net This email is: [ ] shareable [X] ask first [ ] private _______________________________________________ specs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs
