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Google Launches Lively, an Avatar Based 3D World
no.good.at.coding writes "Google has launched a Windows-only, in-browser (you need to install a client first, though) 3D avatar world — Lively — that you can embed in websites and use to interact with other people. It's not as expansive as Second Life yet, but expect things to get better."
I for one can't wait for google to replace their homepage search bar with a friendly, brightly colored, animated search assistant avatar. It'll be the next revolution in user interfaces!
One time I threw a brick at a duck.
The term "jump the shark" is so yesterday. The current correct term is "nuking the fridge".
I recommend a paper clip.
I'll save you the trouble of asking and go ahead and get off your lawn.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
"I mean, it is kind-of like chatroom v. 2.0 or something along those lines. But when it gets to be where you spend more time living in an imaginary dreamworld, then it's time to seek help."
Yeah, I hear there's a chatroom just for that.
Need Mercedes parts ?
I think something is wrong with my lively account.
The first time I logged in, some funny looking feller who looked like Colonel Sanders greeted me, "Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the google. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden to sedulously avoid it, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here."
So, I punched him in the hoohaw with my Papa Smurf avatar and quickly logged off. Is thing still beta?
I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins.
"It seems to me that you are searching for porn"...
My I suggest you the "Kleenex Ultra Smooth" link?
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Well log on to second life and make one.
no, a purple chimp would be better.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
Do not try to comprehend the idea of a Google 20% application leaving Beta. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth: there is no Beta.
which is totally what she said
We have met the 1 tenth of 1% and he is us.
In this space, there are professional-looking avatars...
do they have sticks up their asses?
... and things to pick up and examine.
sticks? to put up their asses?
Stop Computers/Cars Analogies on S
World of Pagerank?
Random Thoughts From A Diseased Mind (Not For Dummies)
Yes, but we put them all in Washington D.C. so I can avoid them
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what your country did to you
Are you nuts? With all the lobbyist assholes running free there, you have a faint idea what this could lead to?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.