My avatar and my private Lively room
Next to iPhone mania, Google’s Lively generated the greatest amount of buzz in my little corner of the social media universe this weekend. I got my first view via friends Flickr galleries, which conveyed a lot about their apparent demographic.
In a nutshell, Lively is a virtual world - similar to Second Life- where you can do the following things (from the Google description):
- Create your own virtual space
- Chat and interact with your friends in rooms you design
- Express yourself through gestures, sounds and chat
- Customize your avatar and stream personal photos and video
- Add your room to your site
- Invite your friends to chat and help decorate
Sadly, Lively is a Windows-only world (Vista/XP), which resulted in several of my mac loving friends unable to join me inworld. And while Lively was easy to install and fairly simple to navigate, my experiences so far were not entirely fun.
Here are my first impressions - with hopes that Lively becomes something a little bit more than a noisy mess.
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