Automattic Acquires Gravatar
October 18, 2007 | Posted by Matt
The best ideas are often the simplest. (At least in hindsight.) The idea of globally-recognized avatar, or Gravatar, struck me from the first time I heard it. Of course I should be able to have my avatar wherever I go! Of course email is a great way to key it! Of course there should be an open API for any platform!
Watching how Gravatar changed and evolved over the years I saw a service with great adoption and potential, but facing some classic problems of scale that successful sites are often lucky to run into. Scaling happens to be something my company, Automattic, is very good at, and as we started chatting with Tom Werner of Gravatar it became obvious there’s a lot of potential for combined forces, and I also saw a lot of parallels to Akismet, a product that does one thing, does it well, and has an open API so any platform can use it.So we worked out an arrangement to transfer the code and service from Tom to Automattic, and here we are. Here’s what we’ve done so far over the past few days:
- We transferred the Rails application and most of the avatar serving to our WordPress.com infrastructure and servers.
- Avatar serving is now more than three times as fast, and works every time.
- We moved this blog from Mephisto to WordPress.
Basically, we did the bare minimum required to stabilize and accelerate the Gravatar service, focusing a lot on making the gravatars highly available and fast. However our plans are much bigger than that. Here’s some of the things we’re looking to add and improve on the service:
- We’re going to make all of the Premium features free, and refund anyone who bought them in the last 60 days.
- Move the gravatar serving to a Content Delivery Network so not only will they be fast, it’ll be low latency and not slow down a page load.
- Take the million or so avatars we have on WordPress.com and make them available through the Gravatar API, to compliment the 115k already here.
- From Gravatar, integrate them into all WordPress.com templates and bring features like multiple avatars over.
- From WordPress.com, bring the bigger sizes (128px) over and make that available for any Gravatar. Currently Gravatars are only available up to 80px.
- Allow Gravatar profile pages with Microformat support for things like XFN
rel="me"and hCard. - Develop a new API that has cleaner URLs and allows Gravatars to be addressed by things like URL in addition to (or instead of) email addresses.
- Rewrite the application itself (site.gravatar.com) to fit directly into our WordPress.com grid, for internet-scale performance and reliability.
Of course like with all our products, the majority of development is going to be driven by you, so if you have any great ideas be sure to leave them in the comments so we can work them into our roadmap.
Thanks again to Tom Werner for creating such an awesome service and the Automattic team for getting it moved over so quickly.
joint
nice.
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I’m excited about the future and look forward to new and exciting things to come.
wow…that’s quite impressive! Nice work guys.
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Congrats Tom!
good.hope it will give all of us a nice feeling.
Cool!
Congratulations. I look forward to the future of Gravatar under the new direction. So far, so good.
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marriage made in wordpress heaven!
This is great! I like the micro formats integration.
How about openid support / integration?
One step closer to unified digital identification!
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great to hear that dude.!
Congrats, Matt & crew! 🙂
Thats nice 🙂
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Wow that was.. unexpected.
I’ve decided to stop using gravatars on my blog – partly because I’ve become a fan of a stripped down look, but I definitely do like the concept.
Congrats to Tom.
This is excellent news. I look forward to seeing great things from this pairing in the future.
Congratulations for Gravatar
Cool!!!
Hoooray!!
OpenID?
It is exciting to see a great service get even greater… ROCK ON!
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Gently, Automattic build a strong self-contained sns portal. I believe in the model of opensource binding with commercial act developed by WordPress. I think, Meebo could be next?
Great news!
coooool!
Congrats Matt, cool aquisition and I can’t wait to see how well it fuses with wordpress in the future.
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Innovation. That keeps things going. And, very cool about making the premium features free. With an avatar that can travel, I may need to make a new one.
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Wow Automattic has everything now. Now to implement it into wordpress along with mybloglog.
And now they are installed on my site! Well done!
Nice going 🙂
Yeeii !
All premium features FREE ! ZOOO ! YEEE
I have to admit. My WordPress developer friends understand the potentials of tying in the metaverse concept quite well in principle.
Very nice move, and congratulations!
Wow, for a while there I thought the service was dying a slow death. While not eminently useful, it certainly is a fun thing to see and have around.
Gravatar ha sido comprado
Gravatar, el famoso sitio para manejar avatares ha sido comprado. Esta vez no ha sido Google, ha sido Automattic (http://automattic.com/) la compañia de Matt Mullenweg, el creador de WordPress. Esto ocasionará muchisimas mejoras en gravatar: Los serv…
Wow, awesome!
When I read the headline “Gravatar Sold”, I was all worried it was to some annoying corp. like Yahoo or something. However, very happy to hear that it was Automattic. This should help tons with both the serve speed as well as integration between WordPress and Gravatars.
Woo hoo! 😀
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Great acquisition.
I’ll be looking forward for the changes now.
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Congrats! There’s a lot to look forward to with this acquisition!
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That’s good. I like Automattic and WordPress.
Automattic Acquires Gravatar
在 Dashboard 上看到 Automattic 收购了 Gravatar。曾经很喜欢 Gravatar，甚至想过给以前的 PJblog 加入这个好玩的东西，不过后来越来越慢，越来越慢，实在是受不了了……所以在更新这个 theme 的时候…
[Gravatar] Automattic übernimmt Gravatar
Wie ich gerade im Gravatar-Blog lese hat Automattic, die Firma welche die Hand über WordPress hält, den Avatarservice Gravatar übernommen.
Gravatar ist ein genialer Service welcher die Möglichkeit bietet einmalig einen Avatar upzu…
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I’ve known Tom even before he had the original vision for Gravatar while at home one night, and I can tell you this really has been a labor of love for him. The fact that Automattic came to him proves his insane nighttime ramblings were genius after all!
Although, like anyone whose web app is purchased, he’ll no doubt become a crazed Web 2.0 playboy, making the rounds at the elite San Fran IPO parties and hobnobbing with Jeff Bezos soon enough. So give your kudos now before he’s too good to bother reading this blog. 😉
I agree with Andrew Kumar re OpenID.
What if we could have all our favorite apps/sites/socialmedia/networks/emails under one site, all in one page – with just one ID……
And all in open-source!
Maybe we’ll finally have world peace at last.
Haven’t used Gravatar for quite some time already. But am quite excited to know Automattic acquired it 🙂 Will keep track on any gravatar udpates 🙂
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Great news 🙂 The speed up will be great all on it’s own.
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Cool tool for blog comments: Gravatar (just acquired by Automattic)
Automattic (the folks behind WordPress) just acquired Gravatar, ("Globally Recognized Avatars"). (Hat tip: GigaOM.) What is it?
an 80×80 pixel avatar image that follows you from weblo
They were using Rails? OMG no wonder they couldn’t scale…
Oh well, solved now I guess!
The API was non-functional after the the 2.0 “upgrade” will it just work now?
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Nice fit really, Gravatar sounds just right with WordPress.
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congrats to automattic on acquiring gravatar, now our avatar will be globalize more 😉
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>They were using Rails? OMG no wonder they couldn’t scale…
Agreed, that explains it. Had I known they were using rails, I would never have bothered. Rails is only useful as a hobby – and a short term one at that.
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OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
😀
I would love to take my Lyre with me wherever I go. There are strings attached 🙂 Congratulations on what looks like a nice acquisition.
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Wow. I am IMPRESSED. Thanks for doing this!
this is ghue-reat!
That’s some good shit. Awesome news.
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Well alrighty then!
Cool¡
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I never imagined Automattic and Gravatar would marry, but now that I think of it, it does make sense. Also, I was itching to comment just to see how my Gravatar looks like since I forgotten about it.
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Great news guys! Slow loading gravatars was really annoying…
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So now is the time to get one, I suppose 🙂
Seems like a nice fit indeed…
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The actual API is very clean an intuitive… please keep it, okay? 😉
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While you’re at it, how about creating classes/plugins that cache gravatars and serve them from the same domain as sites?
That should save you a lot of bandwidth and might be a bit faster for end users (no extra dns lookups or redirects).
Waiting to see my Gravatar appears the first time. In the meantime transtlation made to dutch/Flemish/Afrikaans: “idicoon”. As I am striving to help survive my mothertongue. Idicoon thus.
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Hey!
Thanks, keep it u wordpress!
~*~Graser10~*~
The goofy goober!
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Nice, an “Open” avatar!
Oh, great! Now I can have all my e-mails gravatarized?
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Great! WordPress + Gravatar = Awesome. [GravyPress?]
Automattic compra Gravatar
Automattic, la empresa detrás de WordPress compra Gravatar, el sitio especializado en avatares de usuarios por su email. Gravatar tuvo serios problemas para aguantar el gran crecimiento que tuvo (en Menéame lo tuvimos que dejar de usar y porque no ag…
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So far so good. So just let see my gravatar 😉
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Thats very cool they are going to be cdn’d now. I’ve used them since day one, but I had taken them off all of the sites I work on except one because the service was frequently down and the massively slow page loading.
In the article it states that premium services are now free, I just signed up but was prompted to pay for multiples email address gravatars. Is it just not implemented yet?
Norm, making the premium stuff free is on the TODO list, not the DONE list, but I expect it to happen within the next few days.
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This is excellent! It’s good to hear that Gravatar is alive and kicking. Can’t wait for all the new features.
Congratulations to Auttomatic and Tom. Gravatars and WordPress just make sense.
Good news!
The performance increase is good for those who is in other countries.
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ok, now it the time to test my own gravatar. i didnt trust the service before so i never used it.
<– there it should be now, beautiful 🙂
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Congrats Tom… let’s see this great idea taken to the next level!
Oh… is this my Gravatar ID?
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Yes, there’s so much potential there for those little pictures, as we know: Myspace, Facebook, MyBlogLog, whatever.
Thank you Matt for Gravatars
WP is really going to be excited day by day.
You guys are best
Keep up the good work
Thank you and Good luck for WP
Best Regards for u
cool! it’s very good news!
Congratulations to both Matt at WordPress and Gravatar. I’m interested in seeing how the look of WordPress will change–for the better, I’m sure, even though it’s rather neat the way it is. Again, thank you for this free service. I sincerely appreciate it.
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Congratulations.
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Groovy!
Gravatar voll auf Speed
Irgendwie schn, Gravatar tut’s zur Zeit wirklich schneller als zuvor – wenn das wirklich wegen des Aufkaufs ist, dann vielen herzlichen Dank. Die Avatare bei uns in den Kommentaren waren nie schneller da. Und das knapp vor dem vernichtet werden – den…
Now, please, openID on both Gravatar and WordPress…
btw, great news!!
Stefano
Very cool news!!
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awesome, i cant wait.
I am anxious to see how this will impact WordPress. Very cool!
And I just went premium to support all my emails!
This is great news. I am glad I choose to support gravatar, and not mybloglog or any of the others. Because i agree. One thing. Do it the best. And you will succeed.
You guys rock. And hard.
Congrats on the purchase guys. This is a nice compliment to the existing properties and provides a tool for the blogosphere, similar to Akismet.
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Great idea this Gravatar, good for all those involved, hip! hip!
-Thunk Different.
I really don’t know if this is one of the best idaes that has come to blogs… but thats just me lol.
Oh, yay!
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And look it really worked! Usually my gravatar never shows up! Yipee!
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This is great news. Congratulations!
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Nice move!
Excellent news. Gravatar implemented on my site.
Cheers!
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i think is great, now wordpress-gravatar plus openID is the best thing could happen to have an online ID all over th web. now i think what i just said might sound kinda silly, but you get what i mean
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Good News. I was wondering how it was going to go. With so many issues int eh past, and all the work that Tom put into it, to get it scalable & affordable… Glad to see Automattic stepping up to the plate. I’d love to see some stats about how much the service is used once its all up and happy.
That is what I call great news.
The best ideas are the simplest, but sometimes complexity is required.
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big-size avatars are absolutely cool and a must-have, I can only endorse the 128px ones!
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Nice job,:)
I like including the Gravatars plugin with my customers WP themes and I’m happy to hear that the system will be improved! Way to go!
8)
This is awesome and exciting news. I have had an account with Gravatar for a few years now and I need to get back into it and mess with my account. I think it will be pretty awesome to see Gravatar implemented into future version of WordPress. As you said Matt, I think the two are complimentary to each other.
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pretty cool! Congrats Matt & Automattic on acquiring a related & potent service. 🙂
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Looking forward to the next few months with Gravatar now. Best of luck! 🙂
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I’d love it if you could get Gravtars over SSL/https! This is a key feature that is stopping me implementing Gravatar further.
Great move though guys, an important service.
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Nice to see that it got some speed increases, but Rails certainly wasn’t the culprit. A good Rails application is fast, efficient, scalable, and powerful. It’s funny to see the Rails bashers here though. 😛
Won’t argue the Mephisto to WordPress move though. I hate Mephisto.
great idea …
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Definitely sounds impressive.
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Let me try.
This is great news! Congratulations to everyone!
Regards,EJ
nice
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That is a win-win to all. Way to go!
What happens when to great companies become one…. We’ll see.
[…] Wenigstens geht’s den Gravataren gut. […]
[…] der Betreiber von wordpress.com und Askimet, übernimmt Gravatar. Die Vorteile der Übernahme sind sicher, dass die Pro-Features kostenfrei werden und dass mit […]
Gravatar’s founder looks beyond the icons; competitors beware
For some interesting thoughts on where Gravatar could go in the future, see Joshuaink’s Seven and a half questions for Tom Werner from April 2005.
I get the feeling there is a bigger picture with
[…] sez: Watching how Gravatar changed and evolved over the years I saw a service with great adoption and […]
Way too many replies in this thread to read properly, so I hope I didn’t miss someone else already saying the following:
The move to WordPress seems to have deleted a whole bunch of replies to https://blog.gravatar.com/2007/06/11/updated-croppr-stats/ I don’t know about any other threads, but I participated in that one, tried to help out some people, and all those posts are gone now.
Ugh!
ग्रावतार बिक गया!!
….. खरीदा वर्डप्रैस की कंपनी ने
…
[…] 的母公司，今天 Automattic 正式宣佈已收購頭像托管服務商 Gravatar，官方消息見這裡。相信使用 WordPress 的 Blogger 都應該知道 Gravatar 這個服務，它可以為 Blog […]
woot!
[…] Viele haben sich ja von Gravatar verabschiedet da der Dienst ständig überlastet war. Das soll jetzt ein Ende haben, denn Gravatar wurde von Automattic (die Softwareschmiede hinter WordPress) übernommen! […]
[…] pointed out that Automattic has purchased Gravatar, the globally recognizable avatar service. Om speaks of the economics and Matt’s cagy, but […]
[…] has been acquired by Automattic. This should result in some great integration in the future for WordPress […]
Can pavatar be integrated into this too?
Just wanted to drop a quick congratulations to Tom. Hope things turn out the way you dreamed.
Cool!
Thanks 😀
[…] – Automattic Acquires Gravatar « Gravatar Blog Moh. Dàt werd tijd. En nu hopen dat het wat vooruigaat. En dat het wat betert van update cycle […]
Congratulations, it will be better for wordpress bloggers and you!!!
Fabulous! Make it cool for WordPress.org blogs too!
[…] of late is that Automattic has now purchased Gravatar! This is pretty wicked news since the list of benefits are also in that post, but my favorite is the speed […]
[…] megvette a gravatart: https://blog.gravatar.com/2007/10/18/automattic-gravatar/ Lehet, hogy gyorsabb lesz majd?! « előző | következő » kobak — 2007. 10. […]
[…] Filed under bubble, dot com, speculation, wank I’ve been told I have to make a post on Gravatar. So, […]
[…] has it that Automattic has acquired Gravatar.com. Automattic is the company responsible for the brilliant open-source blogging platform which I am […]
Dear Writer
This is a very good blog
I find it by my freind “jak”
Waited more than your good article
Thank you
[…] Нарешті Matt прислухався до моїх зауважень і купив сервіс ґраватарів […]
Great idea. I can’t wait.
[…] Automattic (WordPress 的公司实体) 买下 Gravatar […]
cool, its such a nice work!
[…] Automattic Acquires Gravatar « Gravatar Blog (tags: blogs blogging wordpress news gravatar automattic) […]
[…] }); }); Automattic acquires Gravatar: So, Matt and the people at Automattic have taken another step towards providing the publishing […]
[…] Automattic Acquires Gravatar « Gravatar Blog (tags: wordpress gravatar) […]
[…] Automattic has bought Gravatar I figured Gravatars would become reliable once again so I’ve re-enabled them on this […]
[…] noted in the tech press last week that Automattic had acquired Gravatar. Matt has posted the code to enable gravatars on his blog. I rather like the idea behind […]
[…] él meg, és magáévá tette az open source elveit. Ennek alapján a Gravatart is átalakították: Ezentúl nem kell fizetni, ha valaki egynél több avatart, vagy e-mail címet szeretne […]
[…] Automattic Acquires Gravatar Ik denk dan aan gravatar integratie in WP. Hoera! (tags: wordpress gravatar automattic) […]
[…] days after Automattic acquired Gravatar on 18th of October, Matt added 2 lines of PHP code to turn on Gravatar feature on his WordPress […]
[…] far, I can’t see anything bad about this story. I saw it over at A Feast of Crumbs first. I love gravatar and it’ll be nice for things […]
I am jargon laden and you all are effusively jargon ridden. Help. Something great has happened and I don’t know what it is. Poor me!
[…] is a bit from the post on Gravatar.com: Here’s what we’ve done so far over the past few […]
[…] before the recent announcement about Gravatar joining Automattic, I had been wanting to turn on comment avatars here. I nabbed […]
[…] you may have noticed recently, Automattic partnered up with Gravatar. Matt has released some details in regards to Gravatar and the integration that will happen in regards to WordPress and Gravatar. I […]
[…] в официальном блоге разработчиков Gravatar появилась информация о […]
[…] ne sais pas si vous avez vu l’info en fin de semaine dernière, mais Gravatar, un système de gestion d’avatar, a été racheté […]
[…] agora dona da Gravatar. Voc sabia? Eu descobri no Blog do Matt. Com a aquisio o servio ficou muito mais gil, por que est nos mesmo servidores que hoje fornecem a infra estrutura do […]
[…] ganzen Beitrag dazu könnt ihr hier im neuen Blog […]
[…] You can see more on the changes for WordPress and Gravatar here: https://blog.gravatar.com/2007/10/18/automattic-gravatar/ […]
[…] alcuni di voi sapranno, è notizia di qualche giorno fa l’acquisizione di Gravatar da parte di Automattic, la società che sta dietro WordPress. Una delle prime logiche conseguenze di questa acquisizione […]
What will happen to the people on both Gravatar and WordPress.com?
When? When? When? Sounds great!!
[…] 在得知Automattic收购Gravatar之后，WordPress对头像的默认支持那便是很自然的事情……也就是说，从此各种Gravatar插件也许和TAG插件一样将逐渐消失……处于私心，我对这事很抗拒，具体就不说了…… […]
Great move!
It seems gravatar is having problem serving up some avatars again? I have problem getting my own gravatar to show up. And many of my visitors’ are also missing.
coool!!!! Good for you guys ^^
Very good. Let’s see if its working! 😉
… and ofcourse, now it works!
[…] de la compra de Gravatar por parte de WordPress, numerosos desarrolladores ya lo han empezado a usar en sus blogs (Matt y Dougal por ejemplo). Así […]
[…] and I’m looking forward to seeing where Automattic takes the service in the near future. read more | digg […]
Good work guys!
[…] hat auch gravatar.com einen Käufer gefunden: vor einigen Tagen wurde der Avatar-Dienst von automattic […]
[…] que l’entreprise qui commercialisait le service (avec difficulté malgré un succès planétaire), a été reprise par l’excellente boite Automattic (celle à qui on doit l’indépassable anti-spam pour commentaires […]
[…] a related note, most of you probably know that Automattic acquired Gravatar last week. Now that Gravatar is run by Automattic, avatars are served three times faster than […]
[…] using S3 Making Gravatar fast again October 26th, 2007 As Matt blogged, Automattic recently purchased Gravatar. The first thing we did was move the service onto the WordPress.com infrastructure. Since […]
this is interesting!
Great!
[…] מספר ימים רכשה החברה את שרות GRavatar בסכום שלא פורסם. לאחר הרכישה נפתחו […]
Ooops ….That’s cool
[…] not impress me though. However we are one step close to such a thing, a universal online ID because automattic acquired Gravatar.com . Automattic the company behind WordPress, Technorati which are cool services is now has their […]
This could not have come at a better time. 🙂 Thank you! Looking forward to this happening very soon!
[…] Automattic Acquires Gravatar […]
[…] endret til å bruke Gravatar. Gravatar er en gratis tjeneste, som i denne måneden ble kjøpt av Automattic, de samme som står bak WordPress.org/.com og WordPressMU, samt Akismet.I den forbindelse har jeg […]
i’m very happy to hear that 🙂
[…] to work with Gravatars and viola! Thanks Dougal! PS: If you do not know already, Gravatar is now owned by Automattic and response times for loading the Gravatars is minuscule. After I installed the plugin, I did not […]
[…] compañia recientemente compró Gravatar, un servicio que asocia un avatar o imagen a una dirección de email y puede ser integrado en otros […]
It is all very nice, but what is happening with everybody’s IDicoon?
Is it possible they all fell in a deep black hole? Support is not responding either!?
WROTEN : We’re going to make all of the Premium features free, and refund anyone who bought them in the last 60 days.
PREMIUM FEATURES FOR FREE!!! That’s really good. Because I wanna do something with css editor without buying anything.
Thanx a lot.
[…] 母公司 Automattic 刚收购 Gravatar 没几天，工程师就对 Gravatar 进行了一番手术，把 Gravatar 并入了 WordPress.com […]
[…] compañia recientemente compró Gravatar, un servicio que asocia un avatar o imagen a una dirección de email y puede ser integrado en otros […]
[…] the fine folks who bring you Akismet (and WordPress.Com) have recently acquired/partnered with Gravatar. Gravatar is a service that serves up globally recognized avatars giving you the ability to have […]
ohh good
“We moved this blog from Mephisto to WordPress.”
Wow, why even include that in your update list. Automattic? Don’t you mean automatic? Guess your “company” couldn’t buy out automatic domain name, lmao.
[…] תגובות יום שלישי, 6/11/07, 16:26 Automattic, החברה שמאחורי WordPress, קנתה את gravatar. הרעיון של gravatar הוא פשוט: לכל כתובת מייל יוצמד אווטר, […]
[…] times as fast, and works every time. * We’re going to make all of the Premium features freeread more | digg […]
What if I want to let you keep my refund money? Would it help accelerate this road map?
Testing to see if my gravatar is working. I have it on my website but the images are not loading. So I thought I would come to the master and test mine here.
Very happy with this development, well done!! I’m still making up my mind weather to use Gravatar or MyBlogLog.
What I hope Gravatar will add in the future:
– Overview of all comments I left on the web under my Gravatar ID
– when someone at mydomain.com clicks on my avatar, goes to my personal Gravatar page and sees overview of all comments I left on that mydomain.com
– Overview of Gravatar users friends and being able to see what they’ve commented on
– Hope it will also be made available in Indonesian and Dutch too
vielen dank für diesen tollen Zusatz! 🙂
[…] avatar) of your commenters. In case you don’t know yet, Automattic (WordPress creator) just acquired Gravatar and the future Gravatar services will run faster and bigger sizes (up to […]
Hi there, will SSO be supported with WordPress.com?
eu quero!
[…] Automattic has bought Gravatar! And that means faster Gravatar serving and a better future for both. I saw this coming, I just didn’t know when it’d happen but alas, it finally has! […]
[…] che negli ultimi 60 giorni hanno sottoscritto la versione Premium verranno rimborsati. Ecco l’annuncio dell’acquisizione: The best ideas are often the simplest. The idea of globally-recognized […]
[…] de Gravatar-blog is te lezen, dat binnenkort alle WordPress.com-avatars via gravatar zullen bereikbaar zijn, dus […]
I like this place and this “Old Dog” will not bark unless you pull his chain.
Awesome! As a fairly new member to the WordPress family of bloggers (and blogging in general), this news is very exciting to me. I can’t wait to see these changes!
check out my blog at http://www.extrapreneur.wordpress.com
[…] yesterday. Since Gravatar was acquired by Automattic the servers will be serving gravatars three times as fast. Just what is a Gravatar? A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an 80×80 […]
[…] Esta mañana me levanto y descubro que Automattic compró Gravatar. […]
[…] had some scale-up issues in the past, making the image serving slow. But the acquisition by Automattic has greatly expanded their capability and images issues are a thing of the […]
nice
[…] found out recently that Gravatar had been sold to Automattic, the company behind WordPress. On some levels it was kind of a good news for me, as that would […]
thank yoooou
Can’t wait to see this in action on WP
[…] der Aufkauf von Gravatar durch Automattic macht sich auch bei der Performance äußerst positiv […]
[…] (the hippy/corporate entity behind WordPress) has acquired Gravatar, giving the the service the juice it needed to keep performance up. I’ve enabled Gravatar on […]
gravatar
[…] was recently acquired by Automattic, the company that supports WordPress development and runs WordPress.com. I never […]
[…] actually implemented Gravatars a while back, when Automattic bought them. But it deserves a special highlight and I improved the implementation now. If you comment here, […]
Good deal!
for some reason my gravatar dont works :S
[…] you’d like to find out more about what the heck is or comment here’s the announcement post on the Gravatar blog. This entry is filed under WordPress Feeds. You can follow any responses to this entry through […]
[…] You may remember a little while back we bought Gravatar. We now have the infrastructure to a point where we feel comfortable sending a lot more traffic to […]
[…] You may remember a little while back we bought Gravatar. We now have the infrastructure to a point where we feel comfortable sending a lot more traffic to […]
That kicks major butt dude!!
😎
[…] we have had our own little avatar system. Recently, the company that owns WordPress.com bought Gravatar and today announced that they have enabled gravatar support here. (Don’t tell them […]
[…] mais esperados para o WordPress.com desde que a Automattic (a empresa por trás do WordPress.com) a comprou. Veja o post do blog e saiba o que aconteceu: Você deve lembrar que nós compramos a Gravatar. […]
[…] wordpress.com與Gravatar功能整合 發文於 12 / 7 / 2007 by jiunnmind 從Wordpress.com與Gravatar整合已經過了一個半月，今天在Wordpress.com的部落格上面看到了功能整合的消息，主要整合的部份在於以下這段話： […]
[…] activa Gravatar Luego de comprar el servicio de Gravatar, hoy WordPress.com ha activado este servicio a todos sus blogs. Lo curioso es que Sandbox 1.0 en […]
[…] may remember a little while back we bought Gravatar. We now have the infrastructure to a point where we feel comfortable sending a lot more traffic to […]
nice
!
Very nice news
[…] After reading into it a bit more I decided to add it to my site also. Recently Gravatar has been acquired by Automattic (the company behind WordPress and Akismet), promising some exciting new features. But […]
[…] “A volte le idee più semplici sono le migliori”, scrive Matt Mullenweg sul blog di Gravatar. […]
[…] el blog de JAVIER AROCHE comenta que WordPress.com activa Gravatar, eso sucede después de que comprar dicho servicio, por lo que hace unos días WordPress.com ha activado este servicio a todos sus […]
[…] Globally Recognized Avatar 20 12 2007 Wie man bereits vor einiger Zeit in den News von WordPress.com vernehmen konnte wurde der Bloganbieter-übergreifende Dienst GRAvatar von WordPress.com gekauft. […]
I love gravatars…but I’d like to see more interesting options for a default image. Right now I’m using the wavatar WP plugin to create unique default images for each user. But I would love it if I could have gravatar.com generate a wavatar for people who haven’t registered for a gravatar.
That would be heaven…
Its great to see the dynamism of your company. A small team of people doing major stuff. Great!!!
[…] You should do it cos Gravatar will become a wordpress default soon, i have a feeling. […]
[…] 母公司 Automattic刚收购 Gravatar 没几天，工程师就对 Gravatar 进行了一番手术，把 Gravatar 并入了 WordPress.com […]
[…] Automattic (WordPress开发者)刚刚 获得Gravatar ，将来Gravatar服务将更快更大（达 […]
[…] (selaku perusahaan yang membawahi WordPress) mengakusisi Gravatar (beritanya dapat dibaca di sini). Lalu, bagaimana dengan kita yang mempunyai blog berplatform WordPress dengan domain sendiri […]
[…] Automattic bought Gravatar, they updated the infrastructure to speed things up and updated the Gravatar WordPress […]
[…] de hand deed. Neem Automattic, dat naast het bestieren van WordPress.com en blogspamfilter Akismet, Gravatar heeft overgenomen, en waarover de geruchten gaan dat ze onlangs een overnamebod van 200 miljoen dollar hebben […]
[…] that takes your email address and creates a key to map it back to your gravatar. Automattic now owns Gravatar and is embedding it into WordPress. Now there is a plugin for the OS X Address Book that allows you […]
nice!
[…] Article – Automattic Acquires Gravatar […]
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
[…] conectar esas comunidades de interés. Feevy va en ese sentido, Gravatar también (recordemos que lo compró el propio wordpress) y por supuesto la RMD. Existen actualmente algunos proyectos que van en este sentido, algunos […]
[…] who brought WordPress.com into existence. Automattic’s acquisition of Gravatar happened in October 2007 – they purchased it from Tom Werner. While Tom owned and operated it – it grew at an amazing rate […]
[…] размещаемую в комментариях всех блогов, аватару. Официальный пост в блоге | TechCrunch | GigaOm | Mashable | […]
[…] Automattic Acquires Gravatar « Gravatar Blog […]
What do you mean ?
[…] tried the mybloglog avatars instead, to my dismay because of some cache problem. Hopefully, this development will bring more stability and surely gravatar will be back to my […]
[…] in October 2007 Gravatar was acquired by Automattic (WordPress’ parent company), which has greatly improved performance and will help Gravatar […]
[…] six months ago. Last October, the company that runs WordPress, the software that runs this blog, bought gravatar.com, so it’s not surprising that there is a WordPress plugin to support gravatars. […]
Get this piece of garbage off Rails so that it doesnt ruin peoples sites. I would never put gravatars on my blog because of the slow loading times. RoR is a scalability nightmare. ASP.NET on IIS7 would stomp your colon! Ugh. Morons. WordPress blows, too, by the way.
Its great!
[…] बनाने वाली कंपनी ऑटोमैट्टिक ने खरीद लिया है। यह ऑटोमैट्टिक वही कंपनी है जो […]
[…] Avec l’arrivée de Gravatar dans le giron d’Automattic, les développeurs ont saisi l’occasion pour implémenter la fonctionnalité dans WordPress 2.5. Désormais, vous pourrez afficher les Gravatar de vos lecteurs sans avoir besoin d’un plugin. Attention tout de même, vos lecteurs devront toujours s’inscrire sur Gravatar pour pouvoir afficher leur avatar… vous suivez ? […]
[…] add gravatars to your comments template automatically.” Now that is easy! Gravatar.com was acquired in October 2007 by Automattic, one of the brilliant minds behind WordPress and […]
[…] e/ou códigos estranhos, apenas com uma template tag simples. Essa novidade é reflexo direto da aquisição do gravatar pela Automattic, empresa por trás do […]
[…] my gravatars plugin did some server-side caching, but since Automattic acquired Gravatar a while back, they’re now super fast, and all that caching can just slow your site down, because […]
[…] by filosofo. Posted on October 23, 2007 at 12:50 pm Automattic, the company behind WordPress, recently acquired Gravatar. In case you don’t know, gravatars—or “globally recognized […]
[…] What do you expect? They already bought gravatar! […]
[…] sé si recordaran que Automattic, la empresa que creo este sistema compró Gravatar, pues bueno eso nos vino bien a la comunidad WordPressera ya que ahora los gravatares son […]
[…] this would be easiest for the Guys over at Automattic since they’ve already got the Gravatar infrastructure in place and know exactly what kind of […]
[…] che negli ultimi 60 giorni hanno sottoscritto la versione Premium verranno rimborsati. Ecco l’annuncio dell’acquisizione: The best ideas are often the simplest. The idea of globally-recognized […]
[…] gravatar es un servicio gratuito recientemente adquirido por WORDPRESS que vincula un avatar o imagen a una dirección de email, mostrando esta cada vez que dejéis un […]
[…] WordPress ahora soporta Gravatars en forma nativa, algo que era de esperar luego de la compra de Gravatar de parte de Automattic. […]
[…] avatar) of your commenters. In case you don’t know yet, Automattic (WordPress creator) just acquired Gravatar and the future Gravatar services will run faster and bigger sizes (up to […]
Congrats Matt!
This move makes perfect sense.
[…] have actually been around for a while, but they have been gaining in popularity expecially since Automattic recently acquired gravatar and WordPress 2.5 released with inbuilt support. Adding Gravatars to your wordpress theme is fairly […]
[…] with integrated Gravatar support. Just so you know, Automattic, the company that owns WordPress, bought Gravatar late last year, so we will be seeing a lot more of Gravatar in the near future. That’s great […]
Hi there Gravatars
[…] offers a globally recognizable avatar image that appears next to a users name in blog comments. Official Blog Post | TechCrunch | GigaOm | Mashable | […]
I just set up a gravatar. How cool this is!
[…] Automattic, la société qui gère le WordPress.com WordPress a racheté la societé “Gravatar” qui éditait ces fameux avatars en octobre 2007. Ce qui fait […]
It completely agree with Robert Lipply
[…] support, and we have option wether we want to display it or not, and also set the maximum rating. Automattic already acquired Gravatar in October 2007, and they added interesting features on it in last April: Identicon, MonsterID and Wavatar. If […]
[…] avatar) of your commenters. In case you don’t know yet, Automattic (WordPress creator) just acquired Gravatar and the future Gravatar services will run faster and bigger sizes (up to […]
Nice! Gravatar sounds just right with WordPress.
[…] le cose sono cambiate. Gravatar è stato acquistato da Automattic nel’ottobre 2007 e da allora il servizio ha ripreso a funzionare come si deve: esistono decine di plugin per tutti i […]
[…] Automattic has bought Gravatar I figured Gravatars would become reliable once again so I’ve re-enabled them on this […]
[…] has this nice habit of buying up companies that fix their own weaknesses. Need blogger profiles? Buy Gravatar. Commenting system sucks? Buy Intense […]
[…] Gravatar et IntenseDebate, voici donc une acquisition de plus qui donne certaines informations quant à […]
[…] notizia risale a ieri, il lavoro è già funzionante da qualche tempo. Subito dopo l’acquisto di Gravatar, lo staff di WordPress.com ha modificato il funzionamento dei propri blog per far si che questi […]
[…] che negli ultimi 60 giorni hanno sottoscritto la versione Premium verranno rimborsati. Ecco l’annuncio dell’acquisizione: The best ideas are often the simplest. The idea of globally-recognized […]
[…] Automattic has bought Gravatar I figured Gravatars would become reliable once again so I’ve re-enabled them on this […]
[…] apokalyptik Howdy there bloggers! You’ll no doubt remember that when we acquired Gravatar.com, just over a year ago, we intended to fully integrate it into WordPress.com. It’s been a long […]
[…] di wordpress.com setelah melaunching Blavatar. Gravatar ngga mau tinggal diam. Perusahaan yang diakuisisi oleh Automatic ini membuka layanan yang tadinya berbayar menjadi gratis. Multiple email addresses […]
[…] 10, 2008 | Posted by apokalyptik I still remember the post Matt made back when we announced that we’d acquired Gravatar.com… “Of course I should be […]
Cool!
[…] there bloggers! You’ll no doubt remember that when we acquired Gravatar.com, just over a year ago, we intended to fully integrate it into WordPress.com. It’s been a long […]
[…] there bloggers! You’ll no doubt remember that when we acquired Gravatar.com, just over a year ago, we intended to fully integrate it into WordPress.com. It’s been a long […]
[…] about the stability of the service. In October 2007Automattic, the people behind akismet, acquired Gravatar and made sweeping changes for the better. The premium service was scrapped and server response […]
[…] di wordpress.com setelah melaunching Blavatar. Gravatar ngga mau tinggal diam. Perusahaan yang diakuisisi oleh Automatic ini membuka layanan yang tadinya berbayar menjadi gratis. Multiple email addresses […]
[…] avatar) of your commenters. In case you don’t know yet, Automattic (WordPress creator) just acquired Gravatar and the future Gravatar services will run faster and bigger sizes (up to […]
[…] 由于它十分流行，2007年10月18日被automattic收购。现在，wordpress已经内置了gravatar的支持，一切都是很自然的事情——当初Gravatar的流行，也依赖了wordpress广大的用户基础。 […]
[…] avatar) of your commenters. In case you don’t know yet, Automattic (WordPress creator) just acquired Gravatar and the future Gravatar services will run faster and bigger sizes (up to […]
[…] avatar) of your commenters. In case you don’t know yet, Automattic (WordPress creator) just acquired Gravatar and the future Gravatar services will run faster and bigger sizes (up to […]
[…] avatar) of your commenters. In case you don’t know yet, Automattic (WordPress creator) just acquired Gravatar and the future Gravatar services will run faster and bigger sizes (up to […]
[…] around for 4-5 years but are continuing to grow momentum. Automattic (the makers of WordPress acquired them just over a year ago. As more sites continue to support this technology – I only see it becoming […]
[…] avatar) of your commenters. In case you don’t know yet, Automattic (WordPress creator) just acquired Gravatar and the future Gravatar services will run faster and bigger sizes (up to […]
[…] avatar) of your commenters. In case you don’t know yet, Automattic (WordPress creator) just acquired Gravatar and the future Gravatar services will run faster and bigger sizes (up to […]
[…] Gravatar? That service Automattic acquired back on October 18th, 2007. It’s nearing two years since the acquisition and I don’t know about you but, I […]
[…] Gravatar? That service Automattic acquired back on October 18th, 2007. It’s nearing two years since the acquisition and I don’t know about you but, I don’t […]
i love gravatar, i also use gravatar since i got a new design and my visitors like it =)
[…] avatar) of your commenters. In case you don’t know yet, Automattic (WordPress creator) just acquired Gravatar and the future Gravatar services will run faster and bigger sizes (up to […]
[…] per email address to use “across the entire web.” The gravatar system now “fits directly into the WordPress.com grid.” In that grid there is only room for one avatar system — […]
[…] avatar) of your commenters. In case you don’t know yet, Automattic (WordPress creator) just acquired Gravatar and the future Gravatar services will run faster and bigger sizes (up to […]
[…] avatar) of your commenters. In case you don’t know yet, Automattic (WordPress creator) just acquired Gravatar and the future Gravatar services will run faster and bigger sizes (up to […]
[…] user profile. We use the Gravatar service on WordPress.com to power your user avatar and because Automattic owns both companies, we are able to link your accounts automatically between the two […]
[…] powered blogs (such as this one) support Gravatars by default, thanks to Automattic’s acquisition in 2007. That’s just the start, with a growing awareness leading to an explosion of support, […]
Thanks , This is awesome and exciting news. I have had an account with Gravatar for a few years now and I need to get back into it and mess with my account. I think it will be pretty awesome to see Gravatar implemented into future version of WordPress. As you said Matt, I think the two are complimentary to each other.
ilove gravatar 😀
What I would like to see is an Identicon generator built right into the gravatar service, rather than having to generate one somewhere else, then upload it.
Haven’t used Gravatar for quite some time already. But am quite excited to know Automattic acquired it 🙂 Will keep track on any gravatar udpates!
This is awesome and exciting news. I have had an account with Gravatar for a few years now and I need to get back into it and mess with my account. I think it will be pretty awesome to see Gravatar implemented into future version of WordPress.great…