Google’s Lively ain’t lookin’ so lively now

When Google unveiled Lively to the masses, they made clear that the reason for its launch was to allow players to meet new people and experience new means for online expression.

That project sounded eerily similar to that other online space, Second Life, and if one were to observe the two side by side, the resemblances between the two would be near uncanny.

However, unlike Second Life, a project whose continued existence continues to affirm that people enjoy escaping reality, Google’s Lively project is now considered dead, to be effective December 2008…