Do you have your gravatar yet ?

By Ashish Mohta

Gravatar or globally recognized avatar , which was recently acquired by automatic is a great way to make a picture appear right beside where you make comment on gravatar enabled sites or weblogs like Technospot.Net ( This Blog )!!!.

Why you should have Gravatar ?

Simple it helps to identify with your picture instead of authors or comments looking for an about page. I recently signed up for it and enabled this site with

Easy Gravatars . ( Wordpress Plugin ) Add Gravatars to your comments, without requiring any modifications to your theme files. Just activate, and you’re done! By Dougal Campbell.

However I see that not many people have signed up for it and default image pops up for them. I would suggest all my readers and blogger friends to Sign up now! and get your own Gravatar. It will not only help me but will make you easy recognizable among others.

Do you need to have your real picture there ?

Absolutely no!!. You can have anything which tells about you or your profile. It will be really cool if you people signup and make the comment section more interactive. Moreover The pictures popping up get linked to your blog URL. So if anybody clicks on them goes directly to your site. Thus make effective comments and get noticed with even advertising.

So what are you waiting for Sign up now! and Show your picture in the comments!!!


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    • PC, November 27, 2007:

      Well here is my image on Gravatar. Lets hope it shows up as I type this…

    • Ashish Mohta, November 27, 2007:

      @PC: Cool!!! Thanks for that and yes it shows up!!! :D

    • Ashish Mohta, November 27, 2007:

      @PC: Update, I can even see The gravatars in wordpress comment manager inside!!!! :D

    • Keith Dsouza, November 28, 2007:

      I was just looking for something like this, I had found another plugin for Gravtar but in that you had to manually add the code into the theme. This looks like a perfect find

    • Ashish Mohta, November 28, 2007:

      Hi Keith, Yes its cool even with the alignment thing but I get some problem when the comments is short the picture moves to left

    • Ashish Mohta, November 28, 2007:

      UPDATE: Grvatar scripts are far better than MBL as they are not heavy at all!!! I was checking the speed with MBL and it clearly showed its faster. Its much better option if you are interested to track pictures in comments

    • guess you can mix mybloglog and gravatar together…many bloggers do have images in mybloglog…

    • Ashish Mohta, November 28, 2007:

      @Inyank: I don’t find if mybloglog would be ever useful for me. I don’t use it for tracking and I don’t want to create any community through that either. I would like to have good readers than just people joining there and spamming me with messages on MBL.

      Moreover The script is too heavy. gravtar script is not heavy at all.!!!

    • Brown Baron, November 29, 2007:

      Just signed up. Thanks for the heads up buddy.

    • Ashish Mohta, November 29, 2007:

      @Brown: Greatt!!! But I am guessing that you have not uploaded the picture yet. Dont forget to do that!!!

    • Shankar Ganesh, November 29, 2007:

      I’m seeing a lot of talks on Gravatar these days. I think it’s time to get a Gravatar account.

    • Ashish Mohta, November 29, 2007:

      Hi Shankar, Yup its cool I hope to see your pic soon!!! Try it with your blog!!!

    • bhupendra singh bhatoye, December 15, 2007:

      :cool:
      its a cool pd.
      i like it

    • Ashish Mohta, December 15, 2007:

      @Bhupendra: Great…I would be waiting for your picture to show up too and If you comment on sites which have this feature everybody will see your picture too

    • Ashfame, December 30, 2007:

      I am also in for gravatar…Just checking my pic..hehe.. :grin:

    • Ashish Mohta, December 31, 2007:

      @Ashfame: Thats cool man. More people signup better it will be

    • Adam, January 9, 2008:

      I’ve actually created a Gravatar class if you click the link in my name. Loosely coupled and works like a dream - it also has a cache with an expiration date for the avatar - to save on loading times. It can merely load the avatar in locally.Adam @ TalkPHP.com

    • Rapidshare Bloggers, January 15, 2008:

      Many have migrated to MyBlogLog..

    • Baltej Singh, January 15, 2008:

      It Is Good

    • Ashish Mohta, January 15, 2008:

      @RS: actually Gravatar came later than my blog log….

    • Muratje, February 6, 2008:

      Just want to test my one :)

      Also test your one here :D
      http://www.muratje.nl/?itemid=192

    • Atul, April 27, 2008:

      So it is one more special service , visiting blogging sector after a long time , many things have changed .

    • Ashish Mohta, April 27, 2008:

      Been long time Even I saw you pal. This is a good service. Signup and upload your pic and you are done.

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