Nov 20 2008
End of life for Google’s Lively
Filed under: MMO industry, News items, Virtual worlds, Lively
One of the good things about Google is that they try stuff. They can afford to try out projects, and don’t stick with what isn’t working. Well, it appears that their Lively virtual environment chat-rooms haven’t worked out. Google will be shuttering the Lively service on 31 December 2008, less than six months after launching.
Lively’s Web-site — launched to the public on July 9 this year — will remain up, and the images of the rooms preserved, but the rooms themselves will no longer be active. This seems to also end Google’s plans to leverage Lively as a games-platform. It isn’t clear at…
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Original post by Tateru Nino