Google Lively
Google Lively was a web-based virtual environment produced by Google Inc.. It was discontinued on December 31, 2008.
Lively was only supported on Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, using Windows XP or Windows Vista. It required a special download as well as Flash. The program was designed to be integrated with the Web and provided a new way to access information. This was enabled through the embedding of Lively "rooms" into any HTML webpage—which meant content could be provided in a two-dimensional format, and communication surrounding the topic of that content could be made in the three-dimensional room without the need to enter a separate program.
Engineering manager Niniane Wang supervised this Google project, described in The New York Times by Brad Stone:
Wang introduced her product July 8, 2008 with this comment:
Gadgets in Lively rooms could also run on a user's desktop through Google Desktop.
