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Why did Lively fail? Where do I start?

The NYT has reported on the demise on Google’s 3D metaverse product, Lively.
In my work as creative director, I do a fair amount of projects in Second Life, so I know where the hype ends and ROI begins. It took only a few minutes to determine that Lively had a very limited shelf life. Their [...]


November 23rd, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: Google, Second Life | Leave a comment

Google Introduces Lively.com

Google today announced its new avatar 3D chat world called Lively. It could be interesting and fun but not a substitute for the more powerful Second Life.
Lively and similar products from other companies have the potential to change the way people interact over the Web. Online chat rooms are two-dimensional — they include text, and [...]


July 9th, 2008 | Category: Google | Leave a comment

The Expanding Googleverse

Second Life, Open Sim, and now there are sniffs of Google in the metaverse wind.
Massively thinks so.

major media outlets speculated that Google would use its then-newly-acquired SketchUp asset to turn Google Earth into some sort of Second Life-type experience. Then The Wall Street Journal reported that Google was to acquire Adscape Media Inc., a [...]


November 9th, 2007 | Category: Google, Second Life | Leave a comment

Google Street View Invades North Carolina

Me and a friend of mine was standing in front of her store and while we were shooting the breeze a Google Street View car drove by – just like the one shown below.

What is a Street View car? Google is taking 3D images of all the streets in cities across the nation to show [...]


August 11th, 2007 | Tags: | Category: Google | Leave a comment