It's like Google's version of MPK20, but with a more limited feature set. Lively will become more useful when the "rest" of the web goes 3D or when Lively becomes interoperable with other 3D worlds.
Steven Tran
· 1 year ago
Seems like a great idea, but there are a lot of competitors - we'll see what Google does to make Lively special.
Lisa
· 1 year ago
Interesting stuff. If this idea really does take off, I wonder if Google will charge advertisers and companies a fee to create their own avatars and rooms that people can interact with.
Adam Ostrow
· 1 year ago
definitely possible ... there is a ton of opportunity for product placement/virtual goods
Spoot
· 1 year ago
All it needs to become successful is quick logins, quick loading, and easy/simple to use interface.
Jim
· 1 year ago
Wow. Am I the only one here who thinks this is stupid?
Angie
· 1 year ago
hmmm. no, but we are showing our age, perhaps? My teenagers think this is "steezy". I think this has great potential, even though I be unlikely to participate.
eas
· 1 year ago
Windows only. Booo!
I'd heard that they spun this out into a separate company, and then decided to reabsorb it (and it may have originated as an acquisition).
Adam Ostrow
· 1 year ago
fwiw, I asked if it originated w/ an acquisition and they said "no"
Keith
· 1 year ago
I no longer have the will to load stuff up on my Windows machine just to use it. If it doesn't run on a Mac, I can do without it.
TL
· 1 year ago
No Mac support makes Homer something something.
DW
· 1 year ago
Or linux. Really though, why not? They are putting off a lot of potential users.
chris
· 1 year ago
um...because it takes time fellas. Geez!
tehrob
· 1 year ago
Go crazy?
TL
· 1 year ago
Don't mind if I do!
Rajat
· 1 year ago
Its Seemz To be good I will Try and then Must Say .. it seemz to b More Likely to use it ...!! Thankz..
lgbtech
· 1 year ago
No Mac support. Fail!
Alm 2010
· 1 year ago
Lively has a chance to become a great success both for Google and their clients. You will see a lot of Lively rooms soon. The "20 percent time" strategy will prove successful and most of us will have an Avatar. I want to advertise in a Lively room!
Harold
· 1 year ago
Was there even a hint of this published online prior to today? This seems to have come out of the blue...
Philipp Lenssen
· 1 year ago
Harold, there were many rumors of this before, check Google for [Google my world], [Google metaverse], [niniane wang project in social space] and more...
Danny
· 1 year ago
sounds and looks to me like just another second life....surprisingly backward product from google
Ian Hendry
· 1 year ago
A missed opportunity. There are businesses across the globe crying out for a decent social networking for deal making and rather than appeal to all those people who spend money on Adwords and that Google needs for Google Apps to succees, they build another Second Life and for the teen market. A great shame. No doubt it Google will steal users from MySpace, Bebo and Facebook, but I expected something a bit more useful to the rest of us.
I would like to know who exactly those companies are and what the requirements for a "social networking for deal making are." The reason I say this is that most managers or executive types need voice and face to face interaction for deal making.
People want to see reactions, watch expressions, listen for changes in inflection, make note of a pause behind hesitation, observe body language, etc. Beyond that, and getting into the technical realm, there are also security concerns... not that the sales pitch will ever get to that point.
Other than that, Google appeals to the mass market. While they do have servers and a limited array of B2B products, that is not their forte. As for the entrepreneur attempting to create such an offering, they better have lots of contacts or they will have an extremely difficult time even capturing one client.
chaos
· 1 year ago
Does this crash in anyone else's FireFox 3.0? I have a good cable broadband connection and an Intel Core 2 Duo with 1gb ram - loaded in firefox and lively started taxing my pc. Firefox and my laptop went to a crawl, had to ctrl-alt-del to taskmanager and end the firefox.exe process.
It runs fine in explorer - but I don't want to use IE.
I was running Adblockplus along with some subscriptions and also NoScript - I allowed lively to be used - anyways, any ideas or if this is happening to others - let us know of any tips to fix this! Thanks
Sean McManus
· 1 year ago
Doesn't work in Firefox for me. I wonder whether Google can succeed where many others have failed before them (eg Adobe Atmosphere).
bayan
· 1 year ago
Does this crash in anyone else's FireFox 3.0? I have a good cable broadband
JInny WOods
· 1 year ago
Yup no doubt in my mind now Google is poised to take over the world! www.FireMe.To/udi
Smum
· 1 year ago
I don't find this interesting at all... I've been to Second Life, all it is from my point of vue is a glorified mIRC, that's it. 3D environnements are nice, but they are just that, nice to look at, eye-candy, nothing really easier, for what it's worth, it's complicating the communication process.
Consider a chat room of any kind, when someone is online, you double click to talk to him... Using some 3D environnement, you must walk to that person to talk to her, while she walks here and there, wiggling her arms, changing her appearance and suddenly growing wings and fly away... man, waste of time and annoying...
babak
· 1 year ago
Yay for GOOGLE BOB! :) Microsoft Bob, version 2.0. Now you can create rooms people can visit.
Skaag
· 1 year ago
It's incredible that a company such as Google can release something like this without Mac support.
nothing to see here...
· 1 year ago
oh great another IMVU clone...what will Google rip-off next?
Tyler
· 1 year ago
This is a pretty cool idea, I always get excited when Google announces a new product.
Rt
· 1 year ago
I love lively, very hot social network.
Mateus
· 1 year ago
The create a new characters(avatars)
Seb
· 1 year ago
Even simpler, people could just INVITE THEIR FRIENDS OVER!
Doc The Pop
· 1 year ago
I just tested "Lively". The right sidebar which would allow you to create and change your avatar appeared exactly 2 seconds, then it was forever gone - as a result I don't have a body in Lively, great! Every room I tried, it never worked - so I guess there are some bugs. Quite a frustrating start if you ask me. And I wish I could use it indepentently from my Google Account - that big fat spider that already knows almost everything about me. They should really stop forcing people to have a centralized Google account before they can use a product from the Google family - be it flickr, Picasa and so on. I'd definitely prefer separate accounts for separate programs, where not everything I do is recorded to my one and only centralized Google account.
Web Laureate
· 1 year ago
It was interesting to try out, but I can't figure out what I am supposed to do once I get there. I think it would be cooler to connect to my twitter and facebook and other stuff --- somehow. More of what I am thinking -- http://webpoet.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/beginni...
BB
· 1 year ago
I won't be surprised if Lively is the norm for 3D chat on the web in the future. They have a lot of potential even though there are many competitors.
subhesa
· 1 year ago
مساء الخير
Mikey
· 1 year ago
this is crap by google
Virtual world metaverse
· 1 year ago
Lively still has a long way to go, some described it as a flop. There is potential for this platform as it is a good way for people to get their first experience with a virtual world before they move on to something more advanced.
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Booo!
I'd heard that they spun this out into a separate company, and then decided to reabsorb it (and it may have originated as an acquisition).
Ian Hendry
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People want to see reactions, watch expressions, listen for changes in inflection, make note of a pause behind hesitation, observe body language, etc. Beyond that, and getting into the technical realm, there are also security concerns... not that the sales pitch will ever get to that point.
Other than that, Google appeals to the mass market. While they do have servers and a limited array of B2B products, that is not their forte. As for the entrepreneur attempting to create such an offering, they better have lots of contacts or they will have an extremely difficult time even capturing one client.
It runs fine in explorer - but I don't want to use IE.
I was running Adblockplus along with some subscriptions and also NoScript - I allowed lively to be used - anyways, any ideas or if this is happening to others - let us know of any tips to fix this! Thanks
www.FireMe.To/udi
Consider a chat room of any kind, when someone is online, you double click to talk to him... Using some 3D environnement, you must walk to that person to talk to her, while she walks here and there, wiggling her arms, changing her appearance and suddenly growing wings and fly away... man, waste of time and annoying...
Microsoft Bob, version 2.0.
Now you can create rooms people can visit.