And you BITCH about what Andrew Keen says? Look, the tool is put out there, and users make what the users make. - Eric Rice

Let me correct, those are 'new rooms' with 'high activity' - Eric Rice

sounds familiar - sean percival

@sean was this your experience at mahalo? same popular terms, i mean. - Brooks Bayne

not surprising... :-) - Omar Egan

The target age demo has a lot to do with it, as well... - Sprague D

Not suprising. :( - sergiooo

I'm sporting a female avatar at the moment, since i'm wearing every skin at least once and for machinima. I'm in a room right now being SERIOUSLY CROWDED. - Eric Rice

Oh man, that Developer City sounds SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hot! :D - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ

And CURSE that damn 'propose' animation heh - Eric Rice

Sarah - agreed, who is this "Caroline?" - Steve Lynch from Alert Thingy

http://wordle.net/gallery... - AJ Batac

@wolfsbayne ha no, well yes but no. i was thinking about similarity to second life's popular rooms - sean percival

I just like going in as a pig and "kung-fu'ing" people. That's about all I'm getting from it right now. - Rob H.

Caroline is prolly some 3D cam girl who's a dude IRL - Eric Rice

Oh god now the begging for traffic begins "Come visit my club/coffee shop!!1!" Seriously, I hope they don't put in the rave/karma thing like Kaneva. RAVED U PLZ RAVE ME BACK. heh - Eric Rice

I see this as good news for Google: it means that Lively is, since the begining, mainstream. The fact that you don't see (I guess, at least) those kinds of stuff in FriendFeed, for instance, is not a question of "target age", but more of "target" generaly. Friendfeed had "early adopters" all from tech backgrounds, and even now is used by almost only tech-related people. They reached "everyone" since the begining. - Marcos Marado

I actually wrote a huge post on another thread about why people don't 'get' it, because of the context, intention and effort required in a traditional medium. Dancing for the sake of dancing (in 3D) is not the same as a Warcraft character dancing, for example. - Eric Rice

http://friendfeed.com/e... here it is... keep an eye out for Laguna, my girly av that is attracting attention right now, heh. - Eric Rice

@marcos agreed, they, like IMVU, went mainstream first... I dunno, maybe it's that there are two mainstreams, the geek one which doesn't know how to unwind, and the mass mainstream that is okay with being cartoony. IMVU if you've spent time there is busy as hell, as are the 3948920348 other cartoony places. Maybe geeks are too good and too snobby for this. I say that HALF in jest. - Eric Rice