Google Lively to be closed down
November 21st, 2008 Leave a comment Visited 36 times, 2 so far today
Google’s Lively to be closed down
US based search engine giant Google has announced that they are going to close down their Lively project by the end of the year.
Lively was a virtual world product launched to match the services offered by Second Life.
It allowed the web users to set up virtual spaces to interact with each other. These pages could be embedded on third party sites and web pages.
However, the project never went on to become popular. Most of the times it was filled with spammers promoting their products trying to scam people.
Google spoke about this decision in a blog post: “Despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms everyone has enjoyed in the last four and a half months, we’ve decided to shut Lively down at the end of the year. 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.”
They are not going to layoff any of the people working on this project. They would get reassigned on other Google services.
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November 21st, 2008 at 04:30 am
It’s a strange thing that Google already shuts down it’s virtual world after only being online for 4 months. Well Lively wasn’t really a virtual world, it was more like a 3D chatroom where people could hang out together. The platform didn’t really offer much more than placing a few objects in a room which made it look like a flash game in 3D. One should expect more from Google and certainly not to give up so easy now that the metaverse is coming online. Each day more and more virtual worlds come online and those worlds will form the 3D internet, a strange thing that Google made the choice not to participate in online virtual worlds.