After an exceptionally long absence from the social network I have recently begun to experiment with Facebook again. As one might expect, there has been a great deal of activity since the last time I interacted with the network – notably including the Beacon debacle, as well as the launch of countless new applications.
Of particular interest in recent Google news, I’ve just discovered that a Lively application for Facebook now exists. This discovery came after a few hours wasted trying (unsuccessfully) to figure out how to embed my …

As a matter of practice I try my best to keep my criticisms positive when it comes to emerging technology, but Google Lively is starting to seem like a lemon. After a flurry of activity and scattered enthusiasm amongst early adopters in the wake of the launch of the so-called SecondLife killer, Lively has failed to impress ever since.
Discussions have emerged across the blogosphere about how unacceptable a PC-only virtual world is, and now it would seem that Lively is having issues on PCs as well.
As I discuss in …