lively

Will Lively supplant Second Life? Is it a rival, a match for, or a strong competitor to Second Life? Will we all someday have left Second Life and made the transition to Lively instead? Not likely. Is this an issue? Not really. Lively is a pretty-looking mashup – it has taken multiple ideas and technologies from various places and smushed them together into something … [Read more...] about Lively – not a rival; still a challenge.

I try to avoid hyperbole with new product announcements but it's hard to avoid at least some excitement over today's Google announcement of Lively, its virtual worlds product. A Second Life killer it's not, but at the very least Lively is likely to be a key driving force towards mainstreaming virtual worlds. You can view the demo here: Is it original? No - there's dozens of … [Read more...] about Google Lively – be excited?