Lively is dead. Long live newlively?
by Tateru Nino 
Jan 3rd 2009 at 5:00PM
Filed under: News items, Virtual worlds, Lively
At the end of 2008, Google's Lively closed down. However in the comparatively few weeks since the announcement of the impending shutdown, Lively has been rebuilt from relative scratch by a Chinese company, and the new service, called newlively went live around the same time that the original service shuttered.
If you look at newlively's Web-site, you'll likely be struck by the haunting familiarity of it. That's hardly surprising. That appears to be Lively's original HTML code, just slightly tweaked for the new domain name. Newlively's creator claims to have recreated the models from the original. We've not tried the new service ourselves -- being just a bit a bit nervous about third-party downloads of debatable antecedence.
Nevertheless, the service is operational, and virtual worlds writer, artist and composer, Dizzy Banjo has some more information about this unexpected recreation of Google's virtual environment service.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Valiant Westland said on 1:53AM 1-19-2009
"Like a dog that returns to its vomit Is a fool who repeats his folly." Proverbs 26:11
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Darkdust said on 10:52PM 1-03-2009
I was never really sure what Lively brought to the table that was "new". Second Life does its thing, and I understand what Metaplace is doing, but what's the point here?
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Eric Rice said on 4:04AM 1-04-2009
It's an IMVU and/or Meez class chat environment
Tateru Nino said on 4:16AM 1-04-2009
Further to Eric's comment, Google was developing it as a games-platform.
Darkdust said on 11:49AM 1-04-2009
And, um, what does "an IMVU and/or Meez class chat environment" mean?
/me thinks he has a lot of reading to do now.
Yo Brewster said on 5:23PM 1-04-2009
Wow, I'm nearly shocked to read that the creator of newlively actually compares this product with Second Life. Newlively is just a 3d chat ROOM and nothing more. Sure you'll be able to upload content for your own ROOM but that doesn't make it a "Second Life". Anyway, I guess it's kinda neat to see how quickly they were able to clone this product. Kuddos for that!
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Frank said on 9:40PM 1-04-2009
I seems that the creator of newlively never compares this product with Second Life. they just clone lively, maybe will add some new features in the future.
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