Google's virtual world Lively to die next month

Lively, a virtual reality service from Google Inc., is dying.

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Color, glitter enliven Saudi women's black abayas

For years, the only thing sold openly in Saudi stores selling women's cloaks were of the all-black, drab covering variety. Now, streaks of vibrant color, bands of glittering crystal — even sheaths of sexy leopard skin prints — are showing up on the racks.

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Excerpt: Britney Spears is back (not that she ever really left)! The pop star's new CD dropped this week, and it does not disappoint. Spears is known for her contagious beats, and Circus carries on this legacy with songs that basically force the listener to sing along.

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"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 on its official blog Wednesday evening.

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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.

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That Google has its sights set on the games industry is no big surprise.

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It sounded like a brilliant idea. Google, the internet giant, would bring 3-D virtual worlds to the masses by making them accessible through a web browser.

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With the launch of Google's Lively, the fully immersible virtual world becomes a mainstream experience, though Second Life got there first. Lively's a whole new level of networking—an interactive, 3D meshing of 'real life' with your virtual presence.

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India's third biggest reality show - Star Voice of India - gets off to a loopy start.

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Back in April, ex-Organic CEO Mark Kingdon took the helm of Linden Lab, replacing its charismatic founder, Philip Rosedale, at a time when the company was already struggling in an increasingly competitive market.

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Lively (apparently code named Fiji and Google Rooms, and previously nicknamed Google Metaverse by some outside Google) is a three-dimensional chat world by Google.

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Google, known for its plain-Jane approach to Web design, has come up with something much wackier.

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Google launched Lively today, a 3D virtual world that can best be described as the search and advertising giant's take on Second Life.

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Google is launching a new service today called Lively, a browser based virtual world add-on that lets users create and customize avatars and worlds, interact with other users, and generally have a richer social interaction than is offered by GTalk today.

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Terracotta scent bottle in the form of a fat, squatting man

From Kameiros on the island of Rhodes, Greece, around 520 BC

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