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The Digiteen Dream Team, a group of passionate ninth graders who have been using Google's Lively as part of the Digiteen Project, are planning to protest this Wednesday against Google's decision to close down its virtual world environment, Lively, at the end of this year.

In their shutdown announcement, Google suggested Lively users capture their work by taking videos and screenshots, and thanked their users adding: "We've learned a lot about how users interact in rich social environments." Is this all Lively was about? An experiment in user behavior?