Slog - Comments on The Opposite of Lively http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_opposite_of_lively Google just created a Second Life-like application called Lively. The burdensome tagline is: "Create an avatar and chat with your friends in rooms you design." Just like Second Life, you pick an avatar like this one: and build a room like, for example, this "Goth Room": And then you can, um, IM your friends, who also look like pigs or chickens or whatever. It does, at least, seem to be free at present. Stephen's Lighthouse also points out another small step for online avatars: "Sometime earlier today an avatar was successfully teleported from a SecondLife Virtual World preview Grid onto... Copyright 2008 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:19:51 -0800 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:09:48 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by JC But can you make grotesque penis-creatures like you can in Spore?

]]> JC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_opposite_of_lively#c1068801 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_opposite_of_lively#c1068801 Teh Internets Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:22:15 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe If I can't rape anyone, I don't see what the point is.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_opposite_of_lively#c1068821 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_opposite_of_lively#c1068821 Teh Internets Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:25:14 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle I for one think that the future will increasingly be such things. Too bad they suck bandwidth like a ravenous pig, and we in the USA have near the bottom of all civilized first world nations in terms of available bandwidth per capita and per dollar.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_opposite_of_lively#c1068952 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_opposite_of_lively#c1068952 Teh Internets Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:49:30 -0800 Comment by JenK So how is this different from Microsoft's Comic Chat? At least in Puzzle Pirates you can play games while you're chatting.

(Comic Chat info:
http://research.microsoft.com/vwg/projectsheets/comicchat.htm )

]]> JenK http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_opposite_of_lively#c1069330 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_opposite_of_lively#c1069330 Teh Internets Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:30:35 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Not much, JenK. It's like Barrens chat on WoW and in the trade channel - people like to sit around all dressed up and talk about the weather online.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_opposite_of_lively#c1069508 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_opposite_of_lively#c1069508 Teh Internets Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:54:01 -0800 Comment by JoeG No non-Windows clients...

]]> JoeG http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_opposite_of_lively#c1069670 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_opposite_of_lively#c1069670 Teh Internets Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:09:48 -0800