<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6ce4a840-d865-4061-b72d-e7dffdbabc14/58EFFDB3-2C71-427A-AB90-F113A401893C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://etech.eweek.com/bb-article.html?bbPostId=Cz1qovTMRwphlB5hZ4Gp9JwGqCzC2IFFrffVufCzEd03IqFuqjN&bbParentWidgetId=B7dWYwGhFDdH1CjiC4EuQCI" href="http://etech.eweek.com/bb-article.html?bbPostId=Cz1qovTMRwphlB5hZ4Gp9JwGqCzC2IFFrffVufCzEd03IqFuqjN&bbParentWidgetId=B7dWYwGhFDdH1CjiC4EuQCI" style="font-size: 11px;">etech.eweek.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://etech.eweek.com/bb-article.html?bbPostId=Cz1qovTMRwphlB5hZ4Gp9JwGqCzC2IFFrffVufCzEd03IqFuqjN&bbParentWidgetId=B7dWYwGhFDdH1CjiC4EuQCI"><H1 class="postheadline">Google Launches Lively to Create a Virtual World Across Social Networks</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://etech.eweek.com/bb-article.html?bbPostId=Cz1qovTMRwphlB5hZ4Gp9JwGqCzC2IFFrffVufCzEd03IqFuqjN&bbParentWidgetId=B7dWYwGhFDdH1CjiC4EuQCI"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/etech.eweek.com/img/61FF0879-F856-407A-9678-34F5D32CBD60" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://etech.eweek.com/bb-article.html?bbPostId=Cz1qovTMRwphlB5hZ4Gp9JwGqCzC2IFFrffVufCzEd03IqFuqjN&bbParentWidgetId=B7dWYwGhFDdH1CjiC4EuQCI"><P>Google has just launched <A href="http://www.lively.com">Lively</A>, a new social network built around the concept of each user creating an avatar and a personal virtual room that can be embedded anywhere on the Web. In essence, Google is looking to create a massive distributed virtual world, where every Google account can have its own avatar that can be used wherever a Lively virtual room is present – for example, on a blog, a social networking profile, or a Web page. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://etech.eweek.com/bb-article.html?bbPostId=Cz1qovTMRwphlB5hZ4Gp9JwGqCzC2IFFrffVufCzEd03IqFuqjN&bbParentWidgetId=B7dWYwGhFDdH1CjiC4EuQCI"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/etech.eweek.com/img/5790D559-556A-42EC-B080-48CB35653D57" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://etech.eweek.com/bb-article.html?bbPostId=Cz1qovTMRwphlB5hZ4Gp9JwGqCzC2IFFrffVufCzEd03IqFuqjN&bbParentWidgetId=B7dWYwGhFDdH1CjiC4EuQCI"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/etech.eweek.com/img/16BB0F1C-F1E5-4FBA-8AF2-AD04D3525F00" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://etech.eweek.com/bb-article.html?bbPostId=Cz1qovTMRwphlB5hZ4Gp9JwGqCzC2IFFrffVufCzEd03IqFuqjN&bbParentWidgetId=B7dWYwGhFDdH1CjiC4EuQCI"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/etech.eweek.com/img/53CA0E12-DBD5-479B-B937-3DD9CA61BF2C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://etech.eweek.com/bb-article.html?bbPostId=Cz1qovTMRwphlB5hZ4Gp9JwGqCzC2IFFrffVufCzEd03IqFuqjN&bbParentWidgetId=B7dWYwGhFDdH1CjiC4EuQCI"><STRONG>Is This Google’s New Social Networking Strategy?</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://etech.eweek.com/bb-article.html?bbPostId=Cz1qovTMRwphlB5hZ4Gp9JwGqCzC2IFFrffVufCzEd03IqFuqjN&bbParentWidgetId=B7dWYwGhFDdH1CjiC4EuQCI"><P>Wang tells me that Lively came about during Google’s famous “20 percent time,” where engineers devote 1/5th of their time to their own ideas and projects. But, it’s safe to say that this project may turn into much more. Tying an avatar to your Google account that can be used anywhere there is a Lively room is a unique idea that takes advantage of Google’s huge userbase. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/58EFFDB3-2C71-427A-AB90-F113A401893C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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