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re: bandwidth consume

Status updates about Friendlist and Calling Cards contacts may explain part of the bandwidth being used when you're doing nothing. See this article by Tateru Nino about friendlist, calling cards and lag:

http://www.massively.com/2008/04/30/under-the-g...

Thanks for this article - I'm using this viewer and I suggest everyone to give it a try and give feedback to its developers.

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Gwyneth Llewelyn wrote
> The lower the quality of Lively,
> the better for Google

Scarp Godenot wrote
> People will check it out, find it is lame
> and then think all VR experiences are
> like that

I'd like to add a different point of view about this:
"it's all about training wheels", as Hunter Walk puts it (Walk was previously an early Second Life team member and he now works at Google, though not on Lively):
Why Google Lively is good for Second Life

> anyone with a Google account (therefore, everyone)

FWIW I'm pretty active in IT / web technologies, still I don't have a Google account and I don't plan to create one in the near future.

A detail: Linden Lab is not going to develop avatar puppeteering. More info on sldev mailing list.

Being almost a lurker (english is not my mother tongue, so I may hardly be a conversationalist on twitter right now), i usually cut people from my following list in order to keep the twitter stream at a reasonable size.
Then, the 'reciprocal' thing is not so important for me - the important thing for me It's not the number of people I follow on Twitter, but the kind&size of information flow they produce.
Some people usually write many interesting things, but at the same time they fill my twitter stream: I don't want to lose what they say, so I cutted off them from my following list on twitter and I subscribed their blog feed.