"This is not for geeks - this is for everyone"

Google unveils Playstation Home-like social networking app:

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Internet software giant Google today revealed Google Lively, a browser-based online world in which users can design rooms and avatars for chat and other functions.Built with social networking web site integration in mind, Lively allows player-designed rooms to be embedded within a user's page on such sites as Facebook and MySpace. The tool is available now free of charge at the official web site.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53501

Gamasutra article/interview:

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Guymon's closing thoughts? He believes that "Google is uniquely poised to validate this space for the mass market... this is not for geeks - this is for everyone."

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_i ... tory=19333

Anyone wanna try this out tonight? I'll have a house party in my virtual room and all mapcorians are invited :derp:

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Its not out yet - so no show just yet!

Are you sure? Because I downloaded it, the only problem I faced was that I could neither see my own avatar nor anyone else's