[game_preservation] Google Shutting down Lively

[Andrew Armstrong]

Hot on the heels...Tabula Rasa as we all know didn't do to well.

Feb 28th is the death knell for it - 
http://www.rgtr.com/news/latest_news/message_from_the_tabula_rasa_t.html

Anyone know any others closing down?

Andrew

Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> Yeah, certainly if I notice anything online, I'll post about it 

> here.Keep an eye out everyone!

>

> Defiantly, if it was longer running there'd be a better community and 

> it'd be easier to go out and email those sites for help regarding this.

>

> I very much doubt Google themselves would do much to help if contacted 

> - generally their "dead" things really, really stay dead (see their 

> Google Sync for Firefox, entirely binned, sigh), and they usually 

> don't release much for historians. Might be worth a shot though, on 

> the off hand :)

>

> Andrew

>

> Henry Lowood wrote:

>> Actually 4.5 months.  Did you see in the announcement that they are 

>> encouraging users to take screenshots and videos of their sites?  I 

>> would be happy to take anything like that in the Archiving Virtual 

>> Worlds collection, which is available for exactly this sort of 

>> thing.  If you hear about such documentation, feel free to point them 

>> to the collection or even to me if they need help uploading.

>>

>> Henry

>>

>> Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>>> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/20/144248

>>>

>>> That was fast! 6 months total.

>>>

>>> I hope the Virtual Worlds project can scrounge some things from it, 

>>> the actual world/platform/community might not be the best, but since 

>>> it's coming from Google, there must be some bits and pieces there.

>>>

>>> Andrew

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>>  Film & Media Collections

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