new post: Automated Profile Picture Update Service?

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+After I updated my [profile picture][avatar] today, a friend of mine [responded][tweet] with:
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+> Build a service that changes your profile picture in all social networks!
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+He also didn't like the new profile picture, but that's his problem. My first response was <s>*fuck off*</s> *“Gravatar?”*. Obviously he didn't mean Gravatar, I just mentioned it to annoy him.
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+A service which automagically just updates your Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, Gravatar, *...* profile pictures would be quite cool. Thinking about it a bit more, there are three problems with building such a service:
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+* A lot of these sites you will need to crawl programmatically using some kind of web-crawler library. It will be a paid to write, and even bigger pain whenever they change anything in the HTML layout of their pages.
+* Some sites have specific and/or strange restrictions for image dimensions, file size, and even file format.
+* Will people actually trust such a service with passwords for all of their online social networking accounts?
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+The later problem, trust, is definitely the biggest one. And I'm not sure you could overcome it unless the service is officially sponsored and/or operated by Google or somebody. I do think it could be a fun project to undertake, but I think it's pretty doomed right from the start unfortunately. Although if I updated my profile pictures more than once every 4-5 years, I might just build a prototype for myself at least.
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+[avatar]: http://jimeh.me/blog/2010/02/05/new-avatar-same-old-fugly-face/
+[tweet]: http://twitter.com/jonromero/status/8655908664