more hype or some meaning--looks like hype on the back of the hype curve.

Our man Hamlet got into the "spacious" rl sl offices and poked M about the SL mission in this Gigaom interview http://gigaom.com/2008/07/19/will-mark-kingdons-reign-boost-second-life/

says Mark Kingdon LL CEO:

Crimson Shadow brought thousands of lucky chair enthusiasts in the past couple of weeks to grab a copy of the beautiful Red and Lace Long Gown. Unfortunately, we need a change. No panic ! If you have missed your free copy you can still buy the dress in the shop area as you wait for this beautiful Midnight Blue Dress.

From 4 awesome and amazing giant virtual doormat entries - probably a virtual first ;) - for Greenies Lawn by Desiree Whalen, Cherokee Landman, Clarrice Cinquetti and Shadoe Landman, Desiree Whalen's landed UFO doormat with hand-in-eye logo was most the most popular in our web poll. By majority of votes, this means that Miss Whalen wins 2000 L$, a Greenies Avatar of her choice, a Zapgun (Transferable Gift Box) and a Hooverboard (Transferable Gift Box)AND her Doormat was rezzed to stay at the Greenies Lawn Sim.

Kuranosuke Kamachi is the designer of DeLa*, whom with a lot of enthusiasm creates virtual shoes, clothing and accessories. Miss Kamachi started making virtual clothes about 4 months ago. When you look at the details of this dress its hard to believe. Before then she was only designing shoes for our lovely pixel feet.

Rezzable is very pleased to welcome "Noobility" by Seifer Surface and Art Laxness to the Black Swan area. It is one of the most unique art builds to ever be rezzed in the metaverse. The installation invites visitors to jump and interact with the object floating mysterious above the sim at 300m. Each step may bring a reaction from the charged pyramids in this mathematically exotic space.

If you read my first blog post 'Kryptonia Paperdoll's Virtual Love Affair you might notice the day that Mr. Green and I start dating.. err... I mean the day I met him and fell terribly in love. *grins* Oh, did you saw it? Really? Cool, so you notice its July 17, 2007 right? So it means our yayyyyyyyyyy first year anniversary hooooooo!

... but that day was not a nice one for us, both being stuck on work and we did not get to celebrate on time. *sniff* So today, July 20, 2008, Mr. Green send me an IM and asked me if I got a few minutes for him. Of course, I said yes!

Poll results show a lot of dedication to Second Life--but comments suggest that the future is more about the emerging virtual world platforms--some of which are barely known at all now.

Rezzable's sim most famous for its creativity, is the Black Swan sim. It showcases some of SL's most talented builders, which produces an atmosphere that inspires. Rezzable has invited some of the most sought after designers to come and draw inspiration from Black Swan to create a special edition masterpiece. One of the designers participating is Draconic Lioncourt of Draconic Kiss. Known for her lolita, historical, and fetish designs, Drac's first impressions of the Black Swan sim were, in her own words: "(It's) like its a series of random images that flow somehow and I liked that.

Fashion Inspired by Black Swan gathered many talented designers in a stunning location with great outfits hard to choose from. I have picked the one that I was less familiar with and that is Digit Darkes. I have heard so much about her but never owned a piece from her collection until last week.