Google’s New Virtual World Lively

Well it’s official Google has invited themselves to the virtual world party with Lively. Here are some early press links to explore along with thoughts from some of the technology leaders in the space:

• Lively Main Site
• Eletric Sheep Company CEO Sibley Verbeck’s take
• Cory Ondrejka former CTO of Linden Lab Blogs “Googlerilla released their virtual world-ish”
• Terra Nova’s Take
• CNET News Podcast: Initial impressions from Stephen Shankland
• Christian IT Professional’s Thoughts on Lively “a bad copy of Second Life”
• Wall Street Journal On-Line
• Millions of Us using Lively for National Geographic
• Associated Press
• A Google Employee’s Perspective on why this is good for SL users