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Have a self-hosted WordPress site? Supercharge your Gravatars with Jetpack 2 Aug 2013 | 09:39 am
We’ve written about Gravatar Hovercards before — the nifty pop-up that adds a name, bio, and link to more info when you hover over a Gravatar on WordPress.com. Hovercards are a great way to learn more...
Gravatar and WordPress.com, Together Forever 3 Apr 2013 | 11:33 pm
Did you know that your Gravatar.com account has always been a WordPress.com account? It’s true. Back in 2007 we (Automattic) acquired Gravatar. Heading into 2008 we rewrote it in PHP, and ever since ...
Gravatar: Creating a Truly Global System 14 Jan 2013 | 11:54 pm
We can’t really call Gravatars “globally recognized avatars” unless they’re realistically available to people the world over, and that means making sure everyone who wants to use one has language acce...
Default Image Changes 10 Oct 2012 | 06:30 am
Last week we made some changes to how default images, sometimes called “fallback images”, are handled in Gravatar URLs. The purpose of these changes was to enhance the security of the Gravatar API and...
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Mohammed Amine BENABDALLAH Professeur de droit public, Université Mohammed V, Agdal-Rabat - Doctorat d'Etat en Droit public, Universite de Paris II; - Diplôme des Etudes supérieures en sciences admin...
Is Your Gravatar Retina-Ready? 31 Jul 2012 | 01:00 am
Now that all of Gravatar.com is optimized for retina display, you’ll be looking extra sharp to anyone who views your Gravatar profile or Hovercard from a device like the iPhone 4. But are you looking ...
Growth, Performance, and Pretty URLs 26 Jan 2012 | 06:55 pm
It’s been a while since we have posted about the current scale of Gravatar. Since that post in 2008, things have changed quite a bit. We are now serving over 100,000 requests per second. That is over ...
Electronic Arts’ Battlefield 3 Game Selects Gravatars For Use In Profiles 29 Sep 2011 | 06:52 pm
Electronic Arts has implemented Gravatar in their upcoming Battlefield 3 video game’s online profile and game management site Battlelog. Battlelog is the new browser interface for the game, allowing ...
Open Profile Data 13 Jul 2011 | 06:19 am
Did you know that in addition to the hCard markup on profile pages, we support a number of other completely open, standards-based formats for accessing profile data on Gravatar? These formats are all ...
Now supporting Gowalla, Google and GoodReads 7 Jul 2011 | 08:30 am
In our never ending quest to bring awesome profile power to gravatar users, we’ve added support for three awesome services: Gowalla, GoodReads and Google Profiles. And yes, it is true, given we are ca...
