Dead Lively
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I guess SU isn't being dumbed down to produce content for Virtual Worlds after all.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/google-unplugs-lively-as-hype-fades-over-virtual-worlds/ -
Lively was a 20 min program. Google programmers are encouraged to spend 20 minutes a day thinking of something new and working on it. I guess it had it's 20 minutes of fame. I downloaded it tried it and was turned off immediately.
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I had the same experience, Phil. We're always on the lookout for new areas of expansion, but this one was ruled out almost immediately. I think most normal people find these virtual worlds more than a little creepy. Just because something raises the possibility for online interaction and commerce doesn't mean it's going to have mass appeal....not outside of Geeksville, at any rate.
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yes I thought it was creepy. but teenage creepy it was really amateurish and at 43 I felt like the old man sitting in the rocking chair at a family reunion.
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