On: Google Kills Lively

[aneesh]

As a TC commenter pointed out, the traffic graph for Knol looks just like that of Lively: http://www.google.com/trends?q=lively.com,+knol.google.com&#...

Maybe (hopefully?) Knol is next.

[unalone → aneesh]

Poor Google. They've got all these neat ideas that just don't work.

[tlrobinson → unalone]

I'm going to disagree and say Google hasn't had many neat ideas in years. I can't think of anything they've done recently that's had anywhere near as much impact as PageRank, AdSense/AdWords, Google Maps, or Gmail. All of those were released in 2005 or earlier.

Knol is a tweaked Wikipedia. Lively is a Second Life clone. Open Social was the response to Facebook Apps.

Chrome, Android, and maybe App Engine are the only recent things I can think of that have any potential.

[stcredzero → unalone]

Seems to be the me-too ideas that fizzle like this.