Google just released Lively, a 3D world where you can create your own rooms. Traces of this program appeared back in 2007 under the name of My World (and TomHTML, Tony and I also lately saw traces of something called Google Rooms, though we aren"t 100% sure it"s related). After installing the desktop setup for Windows -- yes, this is one of the rare Google products which isn"t completely browser-based -- you"ll be forwarded to lively.com again. There, you can pick from a number of available rooms, and sign-in with your Google account.
I experienced many problems with this service right now; from failed log-ins (I finally copied and pasted my password from a text editor to make sure), to odd user name restrictions (I ended up re-selecting my Google ...
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