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May 14, 2011May 14, 2011

MEET THE “SEASONS OF HOPE” KITTYCATS

Relay For Life® of Second Life® is thrilled to announce that KittyCatS! has created a special RFL of SL ‘Seasons of Hope’ breedable KittyCatS! collection to benefit the American Cancer Society.

Looking adorable and cute, the special ‘Seasons of Hope’ themed kitties were presented at the Home Expo on Saturday May 14. They will be on sale right through to Relay weekend in July.

Callie Cline and Equinox Pinion of KittyCatS presented the new kitties on the Home Expo’s Main Stage at 12:30pm SLT on Saturday May 14, followed by a live music concert with Mankind Tracer.

This marks the first time that RFL of SL has joined in a partnership of this type and the RFL of SL committee looks forward to the KittyCatS’ presence at Relay team events, at the Home Expo, and at Relay weekend, right alongside the Linden Bears.

‘We’re really honored to have been asked to partner with RFL and to be a sponsor at the Home Expo’ says Callie Cline. ‘It’s very exciting for the pet and breedables community as a whole, as well.

‘Creating these cats was a really touching experience for me as I have had a lot of people in my life die from cancer and in making these cats I thought of them and how they had impacted my life. So in each of these cats is a bit of some pretty amazing people who truly were with me during many seasons of my life and given me a lot of hope.’

‘People love animals and they bring so much joy into the world. We hope our contribution will provide meaning and help RFL of SL with its goals’ says Equinox Pinion.

Home Expo coordinator, Nikki Mathieson said: ‘It’s exciting when talented, creative people come together to put their very best work out there for others to enjoy, while benefiting such an

: KittyCatS Seasons of Hope Dispenser

important cause.

‘KittyCatS! have grown quickly in popularity since their launch in February. I’m confident that the RFL of SL KittyCat will bring a diverse and new group of visitors to the Expo and help us to expand its reach to a larger variety of Second Lifers.’

Relay For Life of Second Life Event Chair MamaP Beerbaum added: ‘I cannot wait to get mine! Thank you so much Callie, Equinox and Dennis for partnering with us. I am so grateful to you for supporting our efforts in SL with such enthusiasm and generosity!’

This year marks the fourth anniversary of the Home Garden & Patio Expo benefiting Relay For Life of Second Life. The 2011 Expo opened on Friday, May 13 at noon and will remain open 24 hours each day until it closes on May 22 at 10pm SLT . This year’s Expo spans TEN Second Life sims, with over 100 exhibits, more entertainment and more ways to benefit Relay For Life, too!

For more information about KittyCatS! visit KittyCatS.biz

To find out all about this year’s Home & Garden Expo, visit http://slhomegardenpatioexpo.wordpress.com/

May 12, 2011May 12, 2011

SL Home & Garden Expo 2011 – RFL Vendor Sales List

Welcome to the 2011 Home, Garden and Patio Expo!! 2011′s Expo, will open on Friday, May 13th at NOON, and remain open 24 hours each day until it closes on May 22nd at 10pm SLT

As always we have the best of the best in SL home designs!! From Landscaping to Furniture to Homes and everything in between, we have anything you would ever need to set up your dream home in SL!! Over 100 of the best stores in SL have gotten together to help support a very worthy cause, Relay for Life! Each one of these wonderful people are donating some amazing items – first seen here at the Expo – to help fight for a cure for Cancer! Below you will see the incredible items they have chosen to sell with 100% of the proceeds going to RFL (most at prices that are beyond belief!!). Come on down to the expo, the items listed below are a very small sample of the stunning items you will see.

Come take a look at the magnificent designs, see what the best of the best have chosen to display. Walk through fantasy living exhibits, to modern life, to futuristic, your mind is your only limit, designs!!

Take some time to browse, and see how you could make your Second Life anything your mind desires!! Continue reading “SL Home & Garden Expo 2011 – RFL Vendor Sales List”

May 11, 2011May 11, 2011

Will Mesh Finally Make A Decent Viewer 2 Sales Pitch?

KirstenLee Cinquetti, Third Party Viewer developer extraordinaire, makes an appeal on her blog for people to switch over to viewer 2:

“Now comes an appeal. Things are getting to a point where I suspect mesh will very shortly arrive onto the grid along with lots of new features. I strongly believe some will appear in the next development cycle. There is one problem.. 1.23 based clients! The whole deal is being right royally hampered and delayed by the insistence in keeping this client alive.

I honestly do not care what your viewer preference may be.. But I really implore you to switch to V2 based solutions (even if this causes some pain). Firestorm, Kokua, daveP’s funk special, it does not matter, the sooner the better. See the world with my eyes!”

Viewer 2 has since its inception been given a frosty welcome, and this goes back to the closed beta period, as the leaked feedback that made its way to The Alphaville Herald revealed. The simple fact of the matter is that Viewer 2 has been unloved, will Mesh change that?

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May 11, 2011May 11, 2011

SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT — UrbanizeD

UrbanizeD Main Store — UrbanizeD Sponsor Spotlight

This is UrbanizeD’s second year at the SL Home & Garden Expo. Creator, Pitsch Parx, is grateful to have the chance to be part of this great initiative.

“This expo is THE best platform any designer could want for his work and coupled with the great cause it supports, it is BI winning!”

UrbanizeD was created on Valentines Day 2009, on the Deizha estate. A spur of the moment decision of Pitschs’ to take his RL, creative background and unleash it on SL. What started out as rental homes, quickly changed into landscaping and designing furniture. To bring the rentals up to the standard Pitsch had in mind he has had to continually keep learning to create that what SL had not previously offered. This evolution continues still, to this day. Every collection shows progress on all sides of the process – textures, animations, and shapes. Raising the bar is part of what UrbanizeD exceeds at. Twice a year an all new collection is used to display the creativity they want to share with the people of SL. Continue reading “SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT — UrbanizeD”

May 10, 2011May 10, 2011

Don’t Just Stand There, Let’s Get To It, Strike A Pose, There’s Nothing To It

At a time when BK Linden is telling us that new user registrations are up, thanks partially due to the new user experience and that Q1 2011 was the most successful in Linden Lab’s history, Vogue Italia are running a story sounding the death knell for Second Life. This story is all the more bizarre because stories about Second Life being empty and people having nothing to do went out of fashion in 2009.

However, we are treading somewhat into there being no such thing as bad publicity, and brands like Ava Choo get a mention, albeit with a complaint that there was nobody in the store to sell them anything, although I do have sympathy with them over the Kenny G music.

The thing with stories like this is that I’ve heard them all before and Second Life has always had empty places since I signed up in 2007, as someone told the person writing the article, you need to know where to look. I used to go to a place called Club Crobar when I was a lad in Second Life, it no longer exists, but other places do. Places come and go all the time.

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