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If you have no idea what is Gravatar, then this writing may give you clue about it.

Do you familiar with avatar concept in web? Avatar in web is an image to represent ourself. This identity may be applied to Instant Messenger program that mostly known for chat such as Yahoo Messenger, Gtalk or MSN Messenger or applied to blog sites. On blog sites, avatar may shown side by side with comments.

The issue may arise is when we want to use avatar on many sites. We have to upload the avatar on each sites and when we want to change the avatar, we have to re-upload the avatar to all sites. Not so convenience.

To ease thing up, Gravatar came up as the solution. The concept is Gravatar map email address to image. What we have to do are register our email address, upload image that will be used as the avatar and then map the email address to the image. If the avatar need to changed In the future, just replace the image and all systems that refer to the email address automatically changed too.

At first each Gravatar account is limited to 1 email address only, for more email addresses is only available for pay service Gravatar Pro. After took over by Automattic, this service is available for free. And now many sites support avatar now.

How to use this service? It’s effortless. To use it in blog sites, just write the comment with email address that registered in Gravatar. Your avatar will show up beside your comment. Simple right?

So, what are you waiting for? Get your Gravatar now. Register your email, confirm your ownership, upload your image and map them. it’s even will show up on your old comments using that email address.