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Lively Petition

Bill Humphries — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:08:37 +0000

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 things they’ll miss.

Google Lively Ends

Bill Humphries — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:52:11 +0000

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 Mars

Bill Humphries — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:59:19 +0000

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 I’m still not happy about the China thing.