Your Own Special Avatar

Avatars are becoming a very hot commodity, and in some arenas, a critical one. I use a very old photograph of an ancestor for my avatar, but I’ve been toying with using a different one. I’m not comfortable plastering my own photo all over the Internet… and those Yahoo avatars are just awful, I think. But with many of us building an online presence- be it through blogging, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, or whatever– an avatar that represents who you are is important. Making that visual association is extremely important for pro-bloggers, too.

So imagine my delight and surprise when I visited MrsToon.com, where you can make your own avatar! Besides having a terrific name for a domain, the site is pretty neat! This is totally cool! You upload your photo and Mrs. Toon will hand-draw the photo into a catroon avatar. The price is right, too!! But if you don’t want to shell out the bucks, you can enter Mrs. Toon’s contest here to win a free avatar. You can check out Mrs. Toon on Twitter, and her Facebook page is here.

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A Great (and Free) Music Website

Here’s a terrific new site for you music lovers out there: Kerchoonz. It’s a social network website built by musicians and music lovers, and you can listen and download the music for free. Amazingly, the music artists are paid for their music, while Kerchoonz offers the free srvice for music listeners. They basically share the advertising revenue generated from the site. This is a GREAT place to mingle if you are a musician, too– you can get your music to the masses. You can also make friends, watch videos, post messages on forums, chat, create playlists and do all the things that social network sites do. Very nice! The website is in Beta right now but it looks fantastic.

Kerchoonz also has these little “kwidgets” that you can put up on your own website, to inform your readers of new music and music you like. There’s a lot to see and do here– make a profile, build your own customized kwidgets, listen to and download music (and it’s all legal), and earn “points” to get stuff like upgrades and goodies. It’s all very nice and open, and the place seems to have a very active community.

The creators of Kerchoonz are refreshingly friendly and open. (more…)

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