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10Jul/080

How Do I Embed Google Lively 3D Rooms into My Site or Facebook?

UPDATE: Google Lively has announced that it is shutting down its service on 31 December 2008. More details here.

How to embed Google Lively 3d Rooms into your site or Facebook - I'm getting a lot of questions about this since I posted my article about the launch of Google Lively.

Embedding is really simple, so it should only take a few minutes.

Embedding Google Lively into your website

    1. Go to Google Lively, register for the service (easy) and create a room.
    2. When you go to your Google Lively room, you will see the embedding code just below the room display:

Google Lively Site Embed

    3. Copy this code, pop it into your website's HTML and that's it!
    4. You can control the room screenshot that is displayed by this code by going into your room, finding a pleasing angle to view it, then clicking on "New Room/Room Properties", then "Edit Current Room", and then under the “Webpages” tab, click "Save Thumbnail".

Embedding Google Lively into your Facebook profile

    1. Go to Google Lively, register for the service (easy) and create a room.
    2. When in Google Lively room, the address in your browser should be something like http://www.lively.com/dr?rid=-7101804801955543956 (this one is for the UK media room). Copy it.
    3. Now log in to Facebook and go to http://www.facebook.com/posted.php (my posted items). In the "Post a Link" box on the right hand side post your Room link (the one you copied in stage 3).
    4. Enter comments if you like and then Post the new link.
    5. Unfortunately this does not allow you to show your specific room screenshot and is only displayed as a shared link for the moment, but I'm sure there will be a Google Lively Facebook application popping out of the oven any minute now - which will enable you to properly embed your Google Lively 3D chatroom.

Good luck!

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