After careful consideration, we have decided to shut down Lively.
Since Lively's launch, we have been delighted to see the creative ways you've used the product. We enjoyed hanging out in Jen's coffee house, and checking out the Brasil Party room. We got a kick out of the YouTube videos in a variety of languages telling stories about your avatars. And we've been awed by the elaborate rooms that you've constructed, using mosaic tiles and photo gadgets in novel ways.
We will shut down Lively on December 31, 2008. Embedded rooms in blogs and other web pages will continue to show an image, but users will no longer be able to enter Lively rooms and interact.
Between now and the end of the year we encourage you to capture all your hard work by taking videos and screenshots of your rooms. Thank you for sharing this experience with us. We've learned a lot about how users interact in rich social environments, and we hope you've enjoyed your time with Lively.
For more information, please read our ">blog post.
Well, this is pretty big, isnt it? This was one of the few Google Services I enjoyed wholeheartedly. Too bad they had to kill it. Besides, when did Google have a failure with a product. Most of the people I have seen in Lively aren’t very pleased with it either. I guess its because Microsoft doesn’t seem to be competing in this market, and they felt it was no use investing here. Lively is definitely a lightweight and simple alternative to other virtual worlds like Second Life. Google is really evil, isnt it?
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