Not Really All That Lively

Posted on November 20, 2008 by Scott Jennings| 8 Comments

As seen on Raph Koster’s site, Google Lively is shutting its doors next month.

It has been a tough decision, but we want to ensure that we prioritize our resources and focus more on our core search, ads and apps business.

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  • http://bjornstar.com bjornstar

    How was it a tough decision?

  • CuppaJo

    I think that just shows you how hard it is to make a pure VW when even Google can’t seem to do it.

  • http://norin.wordpress.com/ norin

    Alternatively, it could have been a lack of marketing, because I’m a bit of a Google Fanboy and I never heard a word about it until today.

  • Calandryll

    Not sure I agree Cuppa. Lively reeked of something that was shoved out the door because “people might think it’s neat” – it never felt like a serious attempt in any way to me.

  • glasseye

    Google lively? Never heard of it…

  • chabuhi

    I’m with Calandryll on this – it seemed like typical Google “build it and they will come”. They hoped to iterated their way to a Second Life “killer”, imo.

    I’m a fond user of many Google apps, but Lively was poorly conceived and poorly executed.

  • Vetarnias

    I do recall having heard of it once before (maybe on this blog?), but it’s probably another instance of the bury-the-mistakes reflex which Google and so many other companies display on a regular basis.

  • Jerid