Hate virtual worlds but want to increase your interactivity? Enter Lively by Google, a new social networking application and 3-D chat platform designed to integrate easily into websites, web browsers and blogs --and then some. With Lively even novice users can create virtual worlds or join another's habitat in the form of an avatar. Like most Google technology, Lively is relatively easy to learn and more powerful than it appears at first blush. Further, in this staycation economy, what better time for a little exploration of the new Google Lively virtual world?

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