Google's Lively Set To Die In December

Google's Lively Set To Die In December

Google launched Lively, its 3-D interactive chat environment, in July, hoping "to help people experience another dimension of the Web." That dimension turned out to be flat. Lively never came alive as a social destination, and Google on Wednesday said that it plans to shutter the service at the end of the year.


Lively joins the list of Google misfires, which includes Google Answers, a fee-based question and answer service; Google Video, which originally allowed users to search the transcripts of television shows; Google Browser Sync, a Firefox synchronization extension; and Google Compute, a distributed computing Google Toolbar plug-in.