https://www.intelligent-artifice.com/enContents © 2025 <a href="mailto:jurie@jurie.org">Jurie Horneman</a> Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:36:37 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2008/07/google-launches-a-distributed-virtual-world.htmlJurie Horneman<p></p><p>Mashable <a href="http://mashable.com/2008/07/08/google-lively/" target="_blank">reports</a> about Lively, Google's new virtual world:</p> <blockquote><p>Google has just launched Lively, a new social network built around the concept of each user creating an avatar and a personal virtual room that can be embedded anywhere on the Web. In essence, Google is looking to create a massive distributed virtual world, where every Google account can have its own avatar that can be used wherever a Lively virtual room is present — for example, on a blog, a social networking profile, or a Web page.</p></blockquote> <p>Worth a closer look. I like the avatars. It has user housing too.</p> <p>Update: "Requires Windows Vista/XP with Internet Explorer or Firefox" BOOO! Obviously this niche product will never fly and shows that Google has jumped the shark etc. etc.</p> <p></p>googleOnline Gamessocial-networkvirtual-worldhttps://www.intelligent-artifice.com/2008/07/google-launches-a-distributed-virtual-world.htmlWed, 09 Jul 2008 01:10:06 GMT