Google Launched an online 3D social arena called Lively 3 Days ago.
When we recently read news of Google's new Lively service, it kinda threw us for a loop because it just does not sound like something Google would do. (Says cybernetnews.com) Lively is like Google's own Second Life, it's a place to go for a 3D virtual experience. Users Download Lively for free (Windows only at the moment), and then use Firefox or Internet Explorer to exist in their virtual world. Websites and blogs across the web will be able to embed a Lively room on their sites that visitors will be able to enter. Google has also teamed with Facebook to allow people to enter there as well, and eventually it will work with MySpace too.
So what made Google decide to do something like this? Maybe advertising? That's what we thought until Google confirmed that they wouldn't be selling advertising in Lively. Perhaps it's just to get more people using Google's services which can ultimately result in more money for Google?
People will get involved with Lively by creating an avatar, creating various spaces that they can decorate, and visiting other rooms. They'll even be able to have televisions in their rooms playing user-selected videos from YouTube. According to Google, "The Lively team wants to help people experience another dimension of the web. We hope you will use the product to express yourself with and without words, and to do this in the places you already visit on the web."
To get started, go to www.lively.com or checkout some of the rooms to see if any of them would be interesting to you, or you can create your own room.
Also you can embed your room at your website or blog, but I have not tried that yet. Wait for more updates.
UPDATE: Guided Tour to Google Lively
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