The Verge

AUGUST 27, 2021

Long ago, an Xbox user who goes by Noukon on Twitter purchased a Pac-Man ghost avatar for a dollar. Over the years, as the Xbox user interface underwent changes and iterations, Noukon’s avatar got smaller and smaller until it was little more than a tiny blue square lost in the endless gray sea of the Xbox avatar display.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

” It’s worth noting that beginning July 31 Google made it mandatory that all Google Profiles be public which means that your first name, last name, and profile picture will be visible when you participate in public Google Products such as Google Places, Maps, Images, Sites, etc.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Digital marketplace OpenSea has banned the PHAYC and Phunky Ape Yacht Club (or PAYC) collections, both of which are based on the same gimmick: selling NFTs with mirrored but otherwise identical versions of high-priced Bored Ape Yacht Club avatars. Like other avatars, though, anybody can technically copy or modify the associated ape picture.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2010

on their Twitter avatars, and then spread them throughout the Twitterverse. You can post pictures to TwitPic from your phone or through the site itself. Twibbon : Twibbon allows your followers to embed ribbons, icons, etc. It’s an easy and effective first step for launching an awareness campaign on Twitter.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

AI-generated profile pictures created by sites like ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com have some unique advantages when it comes to building fake online personas. Others, though, just use stolen avatars. AI-generated headshots are increasingly realistic. Take "Joseph Labba" here.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The 44-second clip Meta shared on Instagram over the weekend shows misshapen avatar characters sitting in a circle of chairs while discussing their breakups (because of Valentine's Day, apparently?) My ex broke up with me via text using emojis," one avatar says in the video while waving his arms around. "I

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Why send a boring text when you can spice things up with a unique avatar and name? We show you how to get crazy using iMessages while protecting your privacy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. “+1″ other’s posts as your nonprofit to increase exposure of your avatar and to foster good will.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. “+1″ other’s posts as your nonprofit to increase exposure of your avatar and to foster good will.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Neal Stephenson famously coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash , where it referred to a 3D virtual world inhabited by avatars of real people. On the other hand, science fiction stories can conjure a vivid picture of “the metaverse” without illuminating how it should work or why it should exist.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

Bless the volunteers and interns, but unless they have experience or training in writing web conent, publishing e-newsletters, and launching and maintaining online fundraising campaigns, then they are not going to understand the bigger picture of the strategy behind utilizing social media. You need a good avatar.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), 9) Browse pictures of baby animals regularly. It is clearly not a fad, and yet the vast majority of nonprofits have zero budgets for social media. yourname@amnesty.org.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

It consists of showing a ring with the word “Live” on it around a channel’s profile picture when they’re live streaming, which you can tap to jump straight into the live broadcast. TikTok uses a similar pulsing ring effect on a channel’s profile picture if they’re live streaming when you scroll past their video in your feed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

3) Creating a webpage on our website specifically for the social media community and offer Twitter backgrounds, avatars, copy and paste status updates/tweets and downloads for people to use and share. (4) We currently have a “Share” button on all pages, yet I want to take it a few steps further. (3)

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The Verge

MARCH 9, 2021

You can see a picture of the hinged product HTC is teasing and a matching photo of its lip tracking device below. Combined with the eye tracking HTC’s already integrated into the Vive Pro Eye , it offers an early picture of what full face tracking looks like in VR. pic.twitter.com/Pl6Z5eojD4 — R?mes mes VR (@vr_rames) March 8, 2021.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In keeping with the virtual nature of 2021, the award will be presented by an avatar of Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele (pictured above) inside a Roblox experience. As broad as that might sound, the award was actually created in partnership with Roblox, and as such, the shortlist is limited to five Roblox creators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

Susan Tenby and I were co-authors (our real life and avatar photos above). Technorati Tags: secondlife.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2011

Similar discussions surfaced last year during Iran’s Green Revolution, when many people on social media overlaid a green shade to their avatars and profile pictures to show their solidarity with the people of Iran. Yet due to old fashion organizing on the ground, the protests have escalated.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2022

Zuckerberg reportedly talked about minting your avatar's clothing as an NFT and taking "it between your different places." Earlier this year, Twitter introduced a feature that let some users set an NFT they own as their profile picture. Of course, there's also a metaverse angle here as well.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

These networks and studios include BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures. Nickelodeon is launching an Avatar Studios to make more TV series and films based on the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. These series join previously announced titles heading to Paramount Plus.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, startups like Wave raised huge bouts of VC funding to turn real performers into digital avatars in a bid to create more digital-native concerts. The virtual concert industry didn’t have as big of a lockdown moment as some hoped for. Spotify experimented with virtual events.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

After BuzzFeed ’s article was posted, the two later responded to the situation with the “Web2 me vs. Web3 me” meme on Twitter, in which you essentially compare a photo of yourself in the real world with an NFT or avatar that’s supposed to represent you in the metaverse.

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TechNode

AUGUST 1, 2024

Each digital human has its own avatar, nickname, and profile, and users can choose according to their interests and hobbies. You can enter the chat interface after clicking on the digital human’s avatar. It is currently unclear whether new digital humans will be periodically added for users to experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

Jeff replies, "Dad, I spent the morning at my private foundation office in Second Life where my avatar raised $600 which I then took to donorschoose.org to buy textbooks for a class I adopted." " Is this comic strip painting a picture of the future or we will look back at it ten years from now and cringe and laugh?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 22, 2010

The profile picture in the upper left of the Page is cropped and scaled perfectly to fit that space and includes a photo of the same representative health care consumers from the parent site. A blue gradient extends below the profile picture to make it feel integrated into the page. The Page includes six tabs.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

So, how do you respond?

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The Verge

AUGUST 26, 2021

Generative profile picture NFTs are all the rage, but creators say it’s not just about the money The first time Tom Williamson and Rob Mehew tried to make an NFT project, they landed on unicorns. Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole. Overweight unicorns, actually. Dozens of generative NFT projects have started in recent months.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Users create a profile, upload an avatar picture, write a short biography and can then scream into the ether to other users on behalf of their digitally sculpted selves. Nearly every social media experience today is built on the same premise: Humans identify with individuality.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Despite his own interest in web3, he said he was disappointed by many of the existing use cases for NFTs at the time because they tended to center around inaccessible, ultra-expensive profile picture (PFP) projects. “It was very clear to me that social networks spring up, and a lot of them are not tangible, but they are real.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Avatar - Square image up to 700k, consistently branded. Not all logos translate will into a square format or can be easily recognized when shrunk down, so be sure it will fit well before you put it as your profile picture. Some organizations choose to use a picture of the person in charge of the tweets instead of a logo.

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The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

Deepfakes use AI techniques to generate or manipulate videos and pictures. They did so by cold-calling and emailing their targets from fake addresses, using a real picture of Volkov as their digital avatar. Artist: William Joel. As proof, the pair shared some of this correspondence with The Verge.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Legless for a while longer : We were promised legs, but now Ivan writes that it could be another year for any Meta leg-equipped avatars to appear in Horizon Worlds. Rebecca got the scoop on Sono Motors’ new Sion solar electric vehicle and some face time with Whoopi Goldberg (pictures to prove it). Ivan has more. Startups and VC.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Twibbon is a tool that allows your supporters on Twitter and Facebook to add a micro version of your nonprofit’s avatar to their profile pics. You can also view statistics about what time people voted and from what country.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

To gain new Snapchat Friends, you can use your new Snapcode as an avatar on social networks (rotate one week and one week off). ” Snaps are picture or video messages that can be sent directly to Friends or shared to your nonprofit’s Story. Share your first Snap to “My Story.” snapchat.com/add/whitehouse.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Her first tip: Use your nonprofit’s avatar as your profile picture! It’s a beautiful example how video can be used as a tool for good. Speaking of using stories, Katya Andreson posted her tips for nonprofits using YouTube to share their videos. They believe her expertise will be a perfect fit for their consulting practices.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

How it works right now: Shoppers who opt in to the “experience” step into a fitting room where, using lidar sensors made by Intel, FIT:MATCH creates an anonymized avatar based on the individual’s body shape that it compares with a database of so-called digital twins to find the best-fitting products for the shopper.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

In their excitement to share what they did, they posted pictures. Unfortunately, they did not have releases for the children's pictures. Should you have a dress and behavior code for staff and others who become "friends", including their avatars? On one site, she clicks on an employee.

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