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Published: Tue, 8 July 2008, 17:01, also tagged: games, technology, internet, google, social networking, messaging, virtual worlds, instant messaging, social software, avatars, google talk, gtalk, lively, google lively
Google today has launched a new service named Lively. Google Lively provides users interactive avatars on top of the Google Talk (GTalk) instant messaging platform.
Lively works through a browser plug-in that is currently only available for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox on Microsoft Windows. The Lively browser plug-in allows the service to be embedded directly into web pages.
Second Life and other such competing services might be in for a tough time – although in its current form Google Lively doesn’t consist of a single world, each room is individually created by a user, so for now virtual worlds with a central world aren’t direct competition. It does seem very feasible that future iterations of Google Lively will have a central world where users can interact.