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Google Pulls the Plug On Lively

Nov 19, 2008 11:43 PM

Google’s “me too” virtual world Lively will be dead by the end of the year—just six months after it launched. It was almost inevitable though, as Google (NSDQ: GOOG) debuted Lively well after the virtual world frenzy had simmered down. The service also had to compete with established worlds like…

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Google Tries To Go Lively With Its Own Virtual World Effort

Jul 8, 2008 10:37 PM

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is getting into another me-too service, and about a year or so after the Second Life bubble burst: it has launched Lively, its virtual world/avatar service, with the twist being users can embed these avatar and worlds into their own blogs and social networking sites such as…

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