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Twenty 9th Graders from Georgia Take On Google
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?
Google Lively Is Dead-ly
In an economic environment where a number of companies are stumbling, it's important to remember that sometimes even Google makes bad decisions. Such would be the case with Lively, a browser-based virtual world environment - and purported Second Life killer - that Google launched this summer to great fanfare.
Now, a little over four months after Lively's launch, Google has decided to turn the lights out on the alternate reality, announcing that they are discontinuing Lively at the end of this year.
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