Crispy Gamer News

How quickly Google has put this one to bed. The company has already put a bullet in the head of Lively, the company’s MMO-like space that it launched only a four and a half months ago - according to TechCrunch.

“..despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms everyone has enjoyed in the last four and a half months, we’ve decided to shut Lively down at the end of the year,” Google said in a statement.” 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.”

They encourage users to take videos and screenshots to commemorate the rooms they created. Users do not find this solution very pleasing and are gathering in rooms called “Lively is Murdered.” They probably will not go quietly, but at some point, it will not matter.

I wasn’t convinced that Google was really behind the whole idea of Lively in the first place, and its short life span convinces me that my first impression was correct..

Second Life creator Linden Lab today announced that former Adobe executive Tom Hale has joined the company as Chief Product Officer. Hale brings with him over 15 years of experience in product development, marketing and management, having most recently served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Knowledge Worker Business Unit at Adobe Systems.

He’ll report directly to Linden Lab CEO, Mark Kingdon and will be responsible for driving the product strategy and business for Second Life.

Linden Lab and IBM said this morning that they have successfully demonstrated virtual world interoperability by teleporting avatars between the Second Life Preview Grid and an OpenSim virtual world server. The joint development project represents an industry first of a quantifiable milestone for virtual world interconnectivity.

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