As part of this release, we added a number of features requested from developers:<p>* SSL Support for all avatars<p>* Auth-search method for avatars across multiple services (/auto)<p>* Pure Javascript Avatar Picker for Web Apps<p>Details can be found here:<p><a href="http://avatars.io" rel="nofollow">http://avatars.io</a><p><a href="https://github.com/chute/avatars-io" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/chute/avatars-io</a>
I'm curious to see how this will monetize. The founders of Gravatar often shared anecdotes in meetups how Gravatar was painful despite being big as there was no money in avatars.
I was somewhat surprised that they were able to get my profile picture from facebook, as all my settings on facebook were set to be very restrictive (at least last time I checked).