ben.hamilton.id.au » definition http://ben.hamilton.id.au Getting your act together with CRM Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:19:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 What is an avatar? http://ben.hamilton.id.au/general/what-is-an-avatar http://ben.hamilton.id.au/general/what-is-an-avatar#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:29:53 +0000 Ben Hamilton http://ben.hamilton.id.au/?p=210 If like me you work in the online world, you could be forgiven for thinking that an avatar is a picture or photograph used to represent yourself in online communities.

Yet, every definition I’ve found lists another, older definition in first place, and I found this interesting…

The wikipedia disambiguation page, the Google define:avatar & dictionary.com pages and more all say this of the word Avatar:

the manifestation of a Hindu deity (especially Vishnu) in human or superhuman or animal form.

Who knew huh?

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