Yeah Lively has definitely had some teething problems to contend with. I’m still keeping my eye on it because it’s got some advantages going for it – not the least of which are ease of use and embeddable instances (including use in Facebook). But the fact it’s PC-only and prone to unexpected outages make it pretty unreliable for most people at the moment.

It desperately needs audio chat and support for user-created objects though. Until both of them are implemented I suspect it won’t be taken too seriously. Nonetheless I’m still going to keep an eye on it.

Seesmic on the other hand is definitely worth a look. I quite like actually being able to see who I’m talking to and I think it could go a long way to reduce some of the feelings of isolation that were expressed during the 2nd Elluminate session held today.

If you need any assistance getting started with it please let me know. I’ve added a short tutorial on how to set-up your audio and video to the “CCK08 Students on Seesmic” post I wrote a week or so ago.

If it’s useful I’d be happy to record another one that does a more comprehensive overview.

Cheers,

Mike

.. and no i could never get Lively to work either. (on a windows box.)

it sounded so promising, didn’t it.

kind regards, michael