Incarnate Beta

Incarnate is a service for finding avatars on the web.

Examples of Avatar providers include Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Gravatar, XBoxLive. We call them Avatar providers because these websites allow users to have a public profile page with an Avatar photo. In the case of Gravatar and XBoxLive, these providers have wellknown URL schemes for returning avatars.

You can think of Incarnate as two pieces:

1. A client UI that presents different avatar options to the user. To try out two sample user experiences, see the following pages: UI#1 and UI#2. To understand how these UIs have been constructed, see the client side javascripts that they use.
2. A REST service that finds the avatars. See the service definition for more.