Comments on: Lively, why it should not die

By: chris

chris — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:07:11 +0000

Hi, i believe I met you on Lively once a long time ago. I remember you trying to have decent intelligent conversation with some of us in Jen’s, but I never really ran into you again before or after that.
I have to agree, Lively was way better than all the rest of the virtual worlds for conversation. It is tight, concise, really easy to meet and talk to people. Honestly I like Second Life better because it is so much fun to create with it. But Lively is pure conversation. Sure, you could go to a text chat room but seeing the other person in cartoon 3D makes a huge difference. I honestly can say I met real friends in Lively. In the past 3 months on SL I have spoken to a grand total of about 10 people, whereas in Lively I was talking to different people constantly every single day. SL is fun, but the point of it is to talk and you just don’t do that easily in SL. SL is too much like real life, you don’t want to bother people, but in Lively there is nothing to do but talk to people. Plus, in SL you have to compete for traffic, whereas Lively you just went wherever people were, and it was easy to find. And you always found the same people all the time. That was its strength, and it was a huge strength. So much so that I would rather go there to talk to people than any other program. I use SL a lot only because I like to explore and build.
Your comment about myspace is interesting, because the ultimate goal of Lively was to be a virtual space in social networking sites. Unfortunately that was the exact audience they were looking for. But I understand that and I think even with that presence Lively was still great.
At any rate, if you are still using Lively drop me a line, busy times and that room name so I can have some decent conversations before it goes away.

btw, this is a funny story you might want to read about something that happened to me on Lively that is quite incredible
http://lockemaison.livejournal.com/372327.html

By: luc

luc — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:23:19 +0000

Thank you guys for you nice words, always a pleasure to hear from you. And who knows, maybe one day even old Minoans on Mac vessels can sail into Lively land…

By: Belavar Planiie

Belavar Planiie — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:23:08 +0000

Thank you for taking the time to write this comprehensive piece!
Sorry I have not had time to even discover your Island
YET! ?

By: Arturo Marcelo

Arturo Marcelo — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:46:13 +0000

se tenia mas retos aun como traducción en el momento en el idioma de raíz del usuario dominador del room sin afectar al de los visitantes que verían en su idioma particular
así elimina esta Babel de internet
solo al ingresar se seleccionaría el idioma determinado según el usuario

ya que se supone que google no intentaría seguir desarrollando esta linea de chat porque no libera
el sistema para que al igual que la misma internet y así sea desarrollada por los usuarios
pero conserve la patente para cobrar las utilidades y cual esclavos libres en agradecimiento los usuarios aportarían mas ala gloria de google.

By: webrunner1981 Adrian

webrunner1981 Adrian — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:37:00 +0000

Hello Oriste, great explanations. I remember how we were talking on your island in Lively. I wish to help. I’ll try to contact Kosmik. She will probably let me help to propote livelyzens.com website. Our motto should sound: U can’t stop us.

By: Shiakara - Livelyzen

Shiakara - Livelyzen — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:10:19 +0000

Oriste, you have given a thoughtful explanation of Lively to the uninitiated but have reminded your fellow Liverlyzen of the many reasons it is special to me. Thank you

By: Cristal - Livelyzen

Cristal - Livelyzen — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:07:34 +0000

Dear Oriste…

I can’t read all you wrote..cause i get lost in translation (lol) but i have to leave this reply telling you that you are my favorite character in Lively…Good Old Oriste, always ready for some nice non-sense talk!!! Those non-sense talk were what made me stay on Lively, I found out that there were very nice people in the middle of all the ’smooth talkers’..

Thank You..
hope to see you again for some Good Old NonSense Talking!!!

From Portugal
Cristal!!!