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Google Gives Lively a Mercy Killing

Posted by Chris in November 19th 2008

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Google has announced that they are pulling the plug on Lively, its browser-baseed virtual world application that could be embedded into other sites.

We were beginning to wonder why this program didn’t even work in Chrome, and this would seem to explain it.

The official notification says that the plug will be pulled on December 31 of this year.

The truth is, Lively was pretty much dead anyway. As TechCrunch reports, after an initial spike, Lively flat-lined…

Google says,

“It has been a tough decision, but we want to ensure that we prioritize our resources and focus more on our core search, ads and apps business.”

R.I.P. Lively.

Here are two things that are very much ALIVE, however. Don’t miss them…

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oriste
November 25th, 2008 @4:32 am

The Livelyzens (Lively users) are coming together to appeal to Google to keep Lively alive.

Lively is a great platform for interaction as well as creativity. It is easy to use, browser based, embeddable on webpages to bring a 3D experience right on your website. While Lively has been in beta and has limited capability in terms of the objects and avatars available, the Livelyzens have been able to come up with very creative ways to create art from what is available. All this in a “clean” 3D world thanks to Google’s vigilance in getting rid of rooms with inappropriate content. More than anything, Lively has become a place to make friends for life – from all over the world with wonderful people.

Please visit our website http://livelyzens.com and participate in the Lively Machinima contest we are conducting to show the creative potential of Google Lively. Please also sign our online petition http://livelyzens.com/petition.aspx

We kindly request netizens to support us in reviving a wonderful 3D world that is a kid friendly and a creative space for art and interaction amongst adults.