Not so sure how I feel about this offering from Google.
Essentially, web developers can embed a Lively room on their website. Then, people who have Lively accounts can log in and chat with other people who are on the website. They’ll be in a room, designed by the web developer, containing various furniture and stuff.
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At the time of writing, Internet Explorer just finished Quarter 2 of 2008 a 74% market share among web browsers, with Firefox in second place with 18%.
If you aren’t a web developer (or a computer geek of any kind), you’ll probably look at this figure and go “Wow, Microsoft sure is dominating the browser market.” And you’d be right. But you’d also be missing a key fact. Take a look at this table of browser usage. Just four years ago (Q2 2004), IE had a 95% market share. That’s over 5% loss per year.
I think that quite a bit of this has to do with web developers. I don’t know any web developers who use IE as their primary browser. The vast majority of us do our development in Firefox, then cross our fingers and see how it looks in IE. There are two major reasons for this.
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