I have to agree with Dave Winer. When Technorati, the usually useful (and usually slow) blog search engine puts up the ads with the talking avatars the service becomes almost too annoying to use. The ads are for SitePal, a service that creates the talking characters for you to put on your site to "enrich the user experience." They wouldn't be so bad if they didn't start talking immediately after loading, thereby interrupting whatever music you might have had playing at the time other things you might be doing. Yeah, they're fun to play around with for a little while but that's about it and they actually distract from the experience when they're auto-play ads. Argh.Please tell the avatars to be quiet
I have to agree with Dave Winer. When Technorati, the usually useful (and usually slow) blog search engine puts up the ads with the talking avatars the service becomes almost too annoying to use. The ads are for SitePal, a service that creates the talking characters for you to put on your site to "enrich the user experience." They wouldn't be so bad if they didn't start talking immediately after loading, thereby interrupting whatever music you might have had playing at the time other things you might be doing. Yeah, they're fun to play around with for a little while but that's about it and they actually distract from the experience when they're auto-play ads. Argh.Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. Geez. Learn to spell quiet!!!
Posted at 9:20PM on Sep 11th 2006 by g
5. Hehehe, yeah that eye-thing is freaky. I played around with one trying to make an avatar that looked something like a real human but you get the ill-fitting hair and the fake mouths and it all starts to look silly. And god oh god, make them stop talking, please!
6. Absolutely agree - they are annoying and pointless (unless you put them there to annoy people). Had conincidentally written something similar http://greatapps.blogspot.com/2006/09/am-i-only-person-to-find-this-bit.html after I saw one on Fred Wilson's blog.
Posted at 4:41AM on Sep 16th 2006 by John Wilson
1. Maybe it would make more sense for them to be quiet.
Posted at 9:08PM on Sep 11th 2006 by Trish