In the wake of Google’s planned shutdown of the Lively 3D chatroom product, the users started a site and a petition to demand that Google keep it running. The group cites Lively’s ease of use, the ability to embed a room in a web page, and Google’s vigilance in policing content, as some of the [...]
Google announced they were discontinuing their 3D world Lively at the end of the year. My condolences to the Lively team. I would had loved it if you all had gotten to do the Mac and Linux versions.
Google’s on Mars now. This is a great toy. There’s a gazetteer built in, so you can go to spacecraft crash landing sites, and geological features. The infrared images from the Mars Odyssey orbiter provide the highest resolution close up. I hope Google will incorporate images from the Reconnaissance Orbiter as updates. Very nice, but [...]