The avatar associated to your Persona account would be shown along with the message you sent, and messages would be deleted after a few minutes.īy that time I had been working on rtcamera, a camera app that could generate animated GIFs using your webcam as input, and somehow our thought trails converged: wouldn't it be super cool to use the webcam's input instead of an static avatar?

Anyone could sign in using Persona, and start sending messages to the one chat room. She showed me a real time chat app she had hacked in a couple of hours, using LevelDB as the temporary, ephemeral storage. Edna had just built a decentralised microblogging engine with Redis, and was trying to find a use case for a database she had just heard about, called LevelDB. We could spend hours just going through her list of projects and getting amazed by all the ways in which she's approaching the same aspect (human interaction) from different angles, both philosophical and technical, but this isn't Edna Piranha's Fan Club Blog, and David only asked me to write about Animated GIFs in the widely successful Meatspace Chat, so let's focus on that.

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