I recently created an avatar icon for my identity with a web service availabe at http://www.abi-station.com/ (You may select Chinese or English if you don’t know Japanese). You can create an avatar which looks like you or one more cartoon-like. Try it!
The avatar created have a lot of uses. I used it as my photo for my business card in my treo (which I can beam to people whom I meet) and the avatar of forums and IMs (such as ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and Skype). Don’t you think that it’s cute and useful?