首先是主要负责人。cnBeta上前几天报道了Google推出Lively是工程师业余之作，文中指出这位工程师叫Niniane Wang。这是一位在Google工作的中国女工程师，中文名叫王忻，个人主页是：http://niniane.org/（有中文版，http://niniane2.googlepages.com/home，但目前Gpages被和谐了）。

Niniane Wang是个很牛的工程师，北京出生，五岁时跟随父母移居美国。中学期间跳了三级，十五岁进入了加州理工大学，加入Google 前曾在微软等公司。从2003年9月起进入Google工作。Niniane Wang在2004.11至 2005.10期间是Gmail Ads的技术负责人，2005年11月开始担任Google Lively项目负责人至今。

Niniane Wang的个人简历上写着“Spoken Languages：Native in speaking, reading, and writing Mandarin.”，并且王忻曾多次在中国谷歌黑板报上撰文。

其次是3D建模的公司。据可靠消息，Google Lively中人物和家具的3D建模是外包给了一家中国公司。这家公司名字就不说了，在北京，而且确实是专门从事3D技术的一家科技公司。据里面的公司技术人员透露，Google Lively还有东西目前没有发布，包括30个宠物。还有，这些3D建模的原作都是一个日本人画的，貌似很好看，而且Google Lively的场景据说是由一家日本公司外包。

然后是一些物品。我们可以看到，在Lively的物品清单里有三样东西，跟中国实在是很有关系，有图为证：

Red Chinese Cabinet
by Nickname unavailable

Serpent Prop
by Matty

High School Classroom Sticker (panda)
by Matty

Want to be Spiderman in Lively room? Want to be Superman @ Lively?

Just watch the video I uploaded to Youtube, and if you still have problems about Lively Hacks, you can comment here~

Surely Google Lively supports English. However, after try lively for several days, we know that lively is a world-wide chat room and we are sad to notice that Google Lively does not support other languages. Actually, Google does support every foreign language, from Chinese to Hindi. Here is the hack of how to do so.

It’s simple but not very easy. You type your language somewhere (the firefox search box, address bar or a text editor), the you copy the words.

After that, you paste the words into the text box in Lively room from the clipboard. It’s all OK now. Here are some screen shot.

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Google just release Lively, a 3D social networking/chat tool. A lot of people are now testing Lively and they may feel confused using Lively. Here are some hacks of Google Lively. Wish it can be helpful for you~

The No 3 Hack is

How to move your avatar

Moving is a basic action in Lively room. Without moving, you can almost do nothing. Here are three ways to move your avatar in a Lively room.

1.Drag Your Avatar

This is the most used way to move your avatar. Put your mouse pointer on your avatar, the pointer will become a cross. Then, hold Left Click, and you can move your mouse to dray your avatar now. With this, you can move your avatar to anywhere you can see.

2.Click somewhere to move

In the lively room, if you want to reach somewhere, you just need to click at that place. It’s easy. And it is another way to move. By clicking, you can moving swiftly~

3.Move to an object

If you want to talk with another avatar, or you want to sit on a chair, you need to go to that object. An easiest way to do so is that you click on that object, and choose "Move to". After that, you will arrive your destination~

A picture is worth a thousand of words. So I record a video to show you how to move in Lively room. I uploaded it to Youtube. Here is the video:

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Google just release Lively, a 3D social networking/chat tool. A lot of people are now testing Lively and they may feel confused using Lively. Here are some hacks of Google Lively. Wish it can be helpful for you~

The No 2 Hack is

Choose a room to join

Since Google Lively is a 3D chat room service, chatting is the key point. So it is important to choose a suitable room for you to enjoy chatting.

Here are 5 ways to choose a good room for you:

1.Popular Room

When you enter the page: http://www.lively.com/, Google will automatically direct your page to http://www.lively.com/popular, a list of popular rooms.

In the Popular Rooms, you will see rooms ranked by popularity, not the number of total visitors who have visited one room. So, the top room in the Popular Rooms list is a room with the most visitors at the current time. If you want to meet more anonymous people there, just enter the popular room~

Tips:If you want to enter a room , just double click on its thumbnail~

2. New room

If you click the New room link, google will direct you to a page with the newest room created by Lively user. These rooms can be filtered by “High Activity”, “Low Activity”, or even “Empty”. If you want to chat in the newest created room, just go to the new room page and choose one~

3.Friends’ room

Lively is a social network, so you have friends here~ Once you add someone as your contact, and this user also adds you as a contact, you became friends. In Lively, friends can do something that anonymous cannot do, which will be introduced later~

Now, you go to http://www.lively.com/friends. If you have friends and if your friends have created their rooms, you will see a list of rooms created by your friends.

This is amazing! Just like the real life in the world! You have your friends and you can pay a visit to them. However, it is much easier to do that in Lively~Enjoy it!

4.All room

All room is just like Yahoo! in Lively. It is a portal. In the page of http://www.lively.com/rooms, you can see all of the rooms existed in Lively. Like that in New room, the rooms in All room can be filtered by “High Activity”, “Low Activity”, or even “Empty”. And more, the rooms can be sorted here. All rooms can be sorted by “Occupancy” (number of current visitors), “Visitor” (the total number of people who have visited the room), and “Date Created”.

5.Search is everything

The last but not the least. Lively is a Google labs product, so it surely has its search engine. Just enter the keywords you’d like to search, then you will get all the rooms in your favorite~ It’s easy!

Google just release Lively, a 3D social networking/chat tool. A lot of people are now testing Lively and they may feel confused using Lively. Here are some hacks of Google Lively. Wish it can be helpful for you~

The No 1 Hack is

how to create a new room

1.Create your room

go to http://www.lively.com/mine, and you will see the “Create a new room” button (like picture below)

just click the button, and you will be asked to sign in your new room now!(see pic below)

2.Sign in

Just enter your Google Account’s Username and Password, click “Sign in” , the you are logging in your new Lively Room!(see pic above)

3.Edit your Room Properties

Once you have logged into your new Lively Room, you will see the Room Properties form (see pic below)

1.Choose a name for Room Title

2.Write some words for Room Description

to let people know what your room is about (like “It’s like the end of Star Wars… But…”).

3.I think most people want their rooms to be included in the Lively Room List. So

check the box under Public Directory

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4.Public Decorating

If you wish visitors to add, move or remove objects, choose Public.

If you just want visitors to move objects, choose Interactive.

Or you just want your visitors to do nothing but talk, choose Private.

4.Save Thumbnail

It is not necessary to do now, but I want to tell you how to make the thumbnail for your room (the thumbnail will be showed in the Google Lively Room Directory, just like pic blow)

Click the Web Pages Tab, the Google Lively says “The current view may be saved for the thumbnail image that appears in the web page.” Choose the current view you want to show in the Google Lively Directory, and click Save Thumbnail. It’s Ok now. (see pic below)

5.Upload your music

It’s amazing! You can upload your favorite music to Google Lively. And your music will be played in your own room!

Notice：Google Lively says, “Audio updates are delayed while uploaded files are converted to proper formats.” (see pic below)

6.Choose a shell

A shell is like a theme for a blog. You can choose a shell for you new room. It’s cool~ (See pic below)

7.Decorate your room

After doing all these things, now you will have your beta room now~

Tips: To decorate your new room, it is wisely to change your view to “Bird Eye’s View”

a. Add Furniture

Click the “Furniture” button in the right sidebar, you will see the “Furniture & Things” form now:

you have two method to add furniture:

1.double click the furniture

2.click the furniture, and click add to your room

b.Move the furniture

Once you add a furniture, it will be placed where you are. But it may not be the perfect place for it. So you need to move your furniture.

Move your mouse to the furniture you want to move, and your mouse will become a cross. Now, you can drag and drop the furniture to wherever you want.

Tips: When you move your mouse around a furniture, your mouse will bend. And if you hold your mouse and move, the furniture will turn a round. Stop when the furniture direction is OK.

C.Edit the furniture

Double click a furniture and it will pop up a ticket. Click the Edit tag, you can enter Hyperlink for your furniture. (See pic below)

Now, you will have your RC Lively Room~

Just invite your friends to your room and do more to your room. Enjoy it~

Tips:

If you want to change your Room Propertys, you can click the “Create a new room/Edit your room” to edit.