Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
You only have to think about Gmail, Google Maps, Google
Earth and you can see what I mean. Where, on the other hand, is the
innovation in Lively? Where, indeed, is the must have functionality?
Adding avatars to chat, great, how very last year. Google is not even
playing catch up here, it is acting like a spoilt kid who wants one of
those because someone else has got one.
It will argue that it makes joining the world
easier by virtue of not requiring a separate client application like
Second Life, but rather just runs in your browser. Great, tell Mac
users how you have made such an easy to use world then Google.
Still, Lively is free. Free to download, free to use and free from contextual advertising. For now.
In fairness, like so many Google services, Lively is still in Beta.
Unlike most other products that get this far, it still looks like a
Beta though. The awkward user interface, lack of any real environment
to explore, Windows only usage and there are reports of it crashing
Firefox online as well.
David Bass
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