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July 10, 2008 - Spotting things you'll want to see today.

Google's Second Life

• Can Google's Lively Improve Search Results Rankings? (SEO Roundtable)
• Tips for Corporate Builds in Second Life (Ad Lab)
• Google’s Lively.com is to Second Life, as Orkut is to MySpace (Marketing Pilgrim)
• Google Launches Social Virtual World Lively; Vivaty Had a Nice 9 Hour Life (Center Networks)
• How Lively? Google’s Me-Too Virtual World (Gigaom)
• Google Lively - Google Music or Google Autos Next (Hitwise)
• Google Launches New Virtual Reality: Lively (Natural Search)
• Lively: Google Launches Virtual World (ReadWriteWeb)
• Google Lively: Comprehensive Guide to Getting Started (Serach Engine Watch)
• Google's Distributed, Widget Powered Virtual World (Sexy Widget)
• Google's Lively Seems Lifeless; Joins A Big List Of 3D Chat Providers (TechDirt)
• Will Google Cultivate Its Virtual Worlds To Make Them Lively? Definitely (TechDirt)
• Having some Lively 3D Web Fun, care of Google - Lively.com (Web Metrics Guru)
• Google Lively not well recieved (Inquisitr)
• Google’s Lively Is a Different Beast (Gigaom)
• Google Tries a Virtual World, and National Geographic Is First Brand to Enter (ClickZ)

Long tail short on support?

• The Long Tail A Myth? Study Calls It Into Question (Natural Search Blog)
• Introducing the new Long Tail - now longer and flatter (E-Consultancy)
• The Long Tail and Small Business (Small Biz Labs)
• Anderson/Elberse Long Tail Debate Reveals a Lot of Internet Subtleties (SmoothSpan)
• Testing the Long Tail's First Test (O'Reilly Radar)