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Avartize.com

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Customize your avatar with Avartize.com. Add an overlay of your favorite logo, symbol or design to your Twitter profile picture, or become an Avatizer if you want to create and publish your own overlays and run your own campaign– no installation or coding needed. Just create an Avatizer account, upload your transparent image and off you go.

Avartize.com was founded in June 2009 by Annedien Hoen, Tanja de Bie and Leon Berenschot. A week before launch the soft launch at July 15, 2009, Jelmer de Jong joined the Avartize.com team to ensure the optimal marketing and business proposition of Avartize.com.

Milestones

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  Avartize.com — Soft launch (7/15/09)
  Posted 8/10/09 at 12:40am
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  Avartize.com — Alpha version live (7/13/09)
  Posted 8/10/09 at 12:34am
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  Avartize.com — Domain registration (6/15/09)
  Posted 8/10/09 at 12:33am
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  Avartize.com added Annedien Hoen as Founder, strategy master.
  Posted 7/16/09 at 1:48am
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  Avartize.com added Tanja de Bie as Founder, design master.
  Posted 7/16/09 at 1:48am
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  Avartize.com added Leon Berenschot as Founder, technology master.
  Posted 7/16/09 at 1:48am
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  Avartize.com added Jelmer de Jong as Business & marketing.
  Posted 7/16/09 at 1:48am

Videos

Screenshots

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Above: Avartize homepage
Uploaded: 7/16/09

Sources

1. WHOIS (reports.internic.net) [edit]
2. Alexa (alexa.com) [edit]
3. Twitter (twitter.com) [edit]