November 20, 2008 2:42 AM -
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Google Kills Lively Quickly —
Just a few months ago, when Google launched its "Lively" 3D chat offering, I questioned Google's strategy, as it didn't seem to offer anything different or compelling. Some people here disagreed, and believed Google would be able to turn the service into something compelling, but that appears not to be. Since the launch, to be honest, I can't recall ever hearing about Lively again -- and had pretty much forgotten it existed. And, indeed, less than six months after launching it, Google has killed off Lively, admitting that the experiment was something of a failure. There seems to be a...
[Tags: 3d chat, email, failure, game, google]
"X-Ray Kid is the team that was recruited by Google to establish the visual style and aesthetic direction" for Lively, the 3D chat service launched in July. "It's been 2 years of work, dozens of original character designs, each with hundreds of unique animations, thousands of clothing variations and original sound content. In addition, we also produced numerous themed environments, hundreds of objects, animated room buddies, and the list goes on," explains the game development studio.Kevin Hanna, creative director at X-Ray Kid, offers some insights on Lively's future in an interview for GamesIndustry.biz. Kevin says that there are lot of...
Be careful when you want to share your Gmail email address but not your name. If you signed up for Google’s mail app with your real name, people knowing certain privacy holes in Google’s applications will be able to find out your first and last name as you provided them. E.g. if your email address is “ExampleElven2000@gmail.com” and you pass it on, someone could take this address, apply the trick, and end up with the full name “Jane Doe”. One multi-step approach to find out the name was just posted to a security blog. Also, some of us forwarded one...
