Comparisons with SecondLife will be inevitable. Its like old school Yahoo chat meets SecondLife meets iGoogle. The deal with Lively.com is that it is really, really new, its absolutely in Beta; and is hyped as it is a release by Google. I created my 3D avatar after logging in using my Google Account.
I am on a T61 laptop using broadband, somehow I just didnt enjoy Lively. I can embed it on my blog, any service that has a widget, grabs my attention.
Its a fantastic time waster, I spent about 20 mins fiddling with it, didn’t really enjoy it. I guess the market it is catering to, is not someone like me.
If I had all the time in the world to waste, I would have probably liked Lively.