mashable.com— Google has just launched Lively, a new social network built around the concept of each user creating an avatar and a personal virtual room that can be embedded anywhere on the Web.
Jul 8, 2008View in Crawl 4
This offers nothing special, like other 3d chat rooms the novelty will probably wear off, and you end up with rooms of people trying to cyber or insult each other. Just having a large window for an interface means its requires too much of your attention.This should be integrated with gchat, so that you can join a room, and have all the room chat in small instant messenger type window, but then also have the option to switch to the full 3d view for a bit of fun.
The visual aspect of this is lame, but the interesting concept is the portability, i.e. being able to put your web social presence anywhere (your blog, home page, etc).Some web content is well suited to this and over time will move away from fixed-site functionality towards browser plug-in and cloud functionality. For example, instead of always navigating to wikipedia to look something up, use a plug-in which allows you to look up something from any site you're on. Similarly, why navigate to a fixed social networking site, when you can carry around your social presence with you as you navigate the web and it could be shown/requested/interacted-with when desired.
Speaking of virtual worlds, i just discovered this one which seems to actually have a purpose, a virtual world composed of websites so you can browse with friends. Pretty nifty stuff here....<a class="user" href="http://www.yoowalk.com">http://www.yoowalk.com</a>
zgambitJul 9, 2008
Does it have a currency like 2nd life?
stwoJul 9, 2008
The most ridiculous google app EVER
richgcJul 9, 2008
This offers nothing special, like other 3d chat rooms the novelty will probably wear off, and you end up with rooms of people trying to cyber or insult each other. Just having a large window for an interface means its requires too much of your attention.This should be integrated with gchat, so that you can join a room, and have all the room chat in small instant messenger type window, but then also have the option to switch to the full 3d view for a bit of fun.
mccullahJul 9, 2008
or japanese....
calon9Jul 9, 2008
The visual aspect of this is lame, but the interesting concept is the portability, i.e. being able to put your web social presence anywhere (your blog, home page, etc).Some web content is well suited to this and over time will move away from fixed-site functionality towards browser plug-in and cloud functionality. For example, instead of always navigating to wikipedia to look something up, use a plug-in which allows you to look up something from any site you're on. Similarly, why navigate to a fixed social networking site, when you can carry around your social presence with you as you navigate the web and it could be shown/requested/interacted-with when desired.
howzitgoin88Jul 9, 2008
Anymore than a handful is a waste, in my opinion...
fredfredricksonJul 9, 2008
Active Worlds, which has been around for more than a decade.<a class="user" href="http://www.activeworlds.com/">http://www.activeworlds.com/</a>
doctorgumboJul 21, 2008
Speaking of virtual worlds, i just discovered this one which seems to actually have a purpose, a virtual world composed of websites so you can browse with friends. Pretty nifty stuff here....<a class="user" href="http://www.yoowalk.com">http://www.yoowalk.com</a>
yomimediaSep 18, 2008
Google is getting their grubby little hands into everything! Geesh!