<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I wonder how comfortable the more privacy conscious of users would be with having their avatar spread around? </div><div><br></div><div>Of course, user control over the movement of profile fields (including avatar) is pretty darn important but for the sake of simplicity it seems like many OPs aren't taking a very granular approach nor going the personas route yet. <br><br>-<div>Jonathan Coffman</div><div>Twitter: @jdcoffman</div><div><br></div><div>Sent from my iPhone. </div></div><div><br>On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:49 PM, Allen Tom <<a href="mailto:atom@yahoo-inc.com">atom@yahoo-inc.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">If Avatar/Profile photo and display name are considered “public” data, then perhaps we could short-circuit this AX stuff by returning the URL to the user’s public profile, and the RP can just use microformats to extract the name/photo via hCard.<br>
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On 12/8/09 10:06 PM, "John Panzer" <<a href="john@johnpanzer.com"><a href="mailto:john@johnpanzer.com">john@johnpanzer.com</a></a>> wrote:<br>
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</span></font><blockquote><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">For my use cases, the important things are, unscientifically,<br>
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1. Display name<br>
2. Avatar / photo<br>
3. Preferred link to human-readable online presence -- profile, blog, whatever strikes their fancy. <br>
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