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Avatars are hot. I’ve got ‘em in SecondLife, Yahoo Chat, not to mention a few for bulletin board posting. Yahoo chat avatars are the easiest to create but you can’t do much with them, they just stand there. However, I love the audibles. Flirting, taunting and soundbites from bands add a lot of laughs to [...]

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Over the years I’ve seen many different types of virtual helpers, from the ill-fated Microsoft Bob to Clippy the Paperclip. I’ve been doing some research into avatars for dating sites and came across Oddcast. It’s straightforward to create an avatar, upload the text and have the avatar speak the text based on specific conditions. Other [...]

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