Topic: Anyone ever heard of Google Lively?

[scottws]

I came across an article describing the pending shutdown of Google Lively, which was supposed to be some sort of competitor to Second Life.  Anyway, I thought the article's word choice was interesting, saying that Google Lively "launched... to much fanfare."

Um... I've never heard of it.  How much fanfare could there really have been?

[MysterD]

No clue.

[idolminds]

Yeah, I heard about it. Never got around to checking it out, though. I think everything was streamed from the server so it wouldn't have worked for me anyway.

[iPPi]

Never heard of it.

[Quemaqua]

Never heard of it.

[Xessive]

Never heard of it either.

Then again I hadn't heard of Microsoft's Live Mesh (online desktop and storage sync service) until some time last week. So I could just be out of the loop.

[Ghandi]

Never heard of it. Obviously they weren't marketing it to gamers. Given that they compared it to Second Life, I'm assuming that they marketed it to people with no life. 

[gpw11]

Yeah, I've never heard of it either, but you do have to take into account that google has a lot of fans that live, breath, and won't shut the fuck up about anything google.  Remember that weird pixel that showed up on G-mail a few months ago?  Probably not, I'd never notice it either but there were like 6 front page stories on Digg.com either about it or just purely speculating about it.  A pixel.  I think we might just unknowingly tune these people out.

[Pugnate]

I think the difference also is that you frequent all sorts of websites, while most of us here probably stick to the gaming and world news sites at most. So you are probably more in tune with the crazy internet culture.