Google has decided to shut down Lively , an online tool that allows users to create 3D (three dimensional) virtual chat rooms where they can invite friends and chat with them online. According to the company, Lively will not be available after December 31st, 2008. Lively was launched in July 2008.
“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. Lively.com will be discontinued at the end of December, and everyone who has worked on the project will then move on to other teams,” Google has said .
Niniane Wang, an engineering manager at Google, had developed Lively as a part of Google’s 20 per cent project that allows the company’s employees to spend one day a week working on projects outside their day-to-day responsibilities.
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