readwriteweb.com - 11/20/2008
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In an economic environment where a number of companies are stumbling, it's important to remember that sometimes even Google makes bad decisions. Such would be the case with Lively , a browser-based virtual world environment - and purported Second Life killer - that Google launched this summer ...
googleblog.blogspot.com - 11/20/2008
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googleblog.blogspot.com —
In July we launched Lively in Google Labs
because we wanted users to be able to interact...
with their friends and express themselves online in new ways. Google has always been supportive of this kind of experimentation because we believe it's the best ...
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Official Google Blog: Lively no more
googleblog.blogspot.com - 11/21/2008
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googleblog.blogspot.com —
Have you ever wanted to mark up Google
search results? Maybe you're an avid hiker and the...
trail map site you always go to is in the 4th or 5th position and you want to move it to the top. Or perhaps it's not there at all and you'd like to add it. Or ...
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Official Google Blog: SearchWiki: make search your own
daringfireball.net - 11/20/2008
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daringfireball.net —
Google’s just-released and much-publicized update to their Google
Mobile iPhone app features some very clever interaction design...
for the voice search feature. There is an on-screen button you can tap to initiate a voice search manually, but, as ...
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★ Google Mobile Uses Private iPhone APIs
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Google Lively Soon to Be Deceased
Google Watch —
... My guess: this is a subtle move to eliminate a frivolous experiment in a time when companies are buckling down for the recession. Google wanted to put the talent in Apps or elsewhere where they could contribute to the bottom line. ReadWriteWeb's Rick Turoczy thinks the lack of relevant data returns to Google killed Lively. He's probably right. ...
Lively wasn’t, and now it’s dead
GMSV —
... that even the great Google screws up sometimes — but only if you keep in mind that failure, under the Silicon Valley definition, is an anticipated and often useful byproduct of the innovation process. If you’re not failing some of the time, you’re not trying hard enough. There’s also the temptation to read into this some broad statement about the future of virtual worlds: What does it say if a smart outfit like Google thinks this isn’t worth pursuing? But I tend to agree with ReadWriteWeb’s Rick Turoczy’s conclusion on the cause of Lively’s demise: “It seemed like a good idea ...
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