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There's lots of news happening in Twinity. Time for a short update on an expansion of online Berlin, the arrival of the Therians (the former inhabitants of There), a visit to the Pergamon Museum and a new release! Welcome to Twinity, Therians Last week, veteran virtual world There.com closed it's doors, meaning an experienced population of virtual world users was looking … 
Making a 2D photo of a 3D interpretation of a 2D artwork is going to be a special challenge. So you should have a lot of fun in joining the Primtings Museum Photo Contest! The Primting Museum is a Second Life museum that presents 3D interpretations by various artists of famous 2D paintings. The museum was born as a vehicle to explore how traditional 2D art can be directly … 
A long time ago, when Twinity barely existed, I discovered Panoramio as a means to share real world photographs of geographical locations. I even blogged about it at the time, saying, amongst other things: It would be cool by the way if Panoramio would have a section for virtual world photographs, but I don't think that would fit in the site concept at this moment :) And, to … 
Along with a great number of virtual worlds members, in Koinup you can find some amazing 3D artists. They're gathering in the 3D Art group to share artworks, imagery and avatars created with Daz3D, Poser and other 3D softwares. I invite you to browse the amazing artworks created by this group of Koinup members. You will discover that some of the 3D artists come from … 
Koinup is delighted to announce the imminent launch of 3D Wallpapers, the mobile app that will bring the most amazing virtual worlds screenshots and avatar art collections directly to your mobile, downloadable as wallpapers. The app will be soon released on the Ovi Store, the Nokia Mobile Application Store and it will be available on almost all the Nokia devices. Later in the … 
Blue Mars, the wonderful virtual world created by the Honolulu based company "Avatar Reality", has now a brand new Koinup dedicated channel. You can browse Blue Mars Pictures and machinima directly in the header of Koinup. You can also hangout in the Blue Mars main page to access the best contents, stuffs, pics and videos posted by the BlueMars colony on Koinup. Blue Mars is … 
If you are a musician looking for your first virtual world experience, think about starting in Metaplace. Metaplace is the brain child of Raph Koster - a blend of passionate visionary, thoughtful scholar, pragmatic developer and best of all, a soulful artist, writer and musician. I met Raph in person in 2007 to talk about Metaplace (then Areae). It was an informal business … 
All in Koinup is about the community: the contents, the groups, the initiative and soon even the homepage. We just launched the Koinup Homepage Challenge, whose goal is recruiting the most amazing images of virtual worlds, published on Koinup and feature them in the Koinup front page. All the Koinup members are invited to submit their images and hopefully some of them will …
Blue Mars, the 3d immersive virtual world powered by Avatar Reality, is now running a photograph contest. Blue Mars World is visually gorgeous and you can find some amazing places to snap, while wandering the syntetic cities. Then, the contest sounds as a cool opportunity to show off your photograph skills. All photo submissions will be uploaded to the Blue Mars Koinup …
Many of you may have heard of the brand new MMORPG that has forged it way into the consciousness of gamers everywhere due to it's incredible innovation, groundbreaking technology and stunning asthetic. That game is Tera Online from Blue Hole Studios (Korea) and En Masse Entertainment (USA.) Tera, which is currently in development and holding Focus Group Tests, promises to … 
Are you a newb, or are you a noob? Newcomers to virtual worlds, social networking sites, or gaming platforms like World of Warcraft may not see the difference between the two terms. Besides, they are phonetically the same. What's the big fuss over a little "ew" or "oo"? If you want to have a smooth start in a virtual world, educate yourself on the the difference between the … 
To be honest: I don't like to go shopping, really. It's inconvienient, tends to consume copious amounts of money, and what's with those clothes anyway? I just want the same pair of jeans I bought last year! Virtual world shopping is, however, a different story. You get to teleport instantly to your destination: all shops are just a mouseclick away. You can buy or wear pretty … 
Dear readers, we're ready to show you the first snapshots of the upcoming 3d Wallpapers app that we're going to release on the Nokia Ovi Store. It will take about a couple of weeks before you will be able to purchase the app on the Nokia store. But, we have stolen some screenshots from the lab ( ;-), in order to give you a sneak preview of how will be the app. As you can see … 
We're delighted to announce the first virtual world artworks picked for "3D Wallpapers", the mobile app built by Koinup for the Nokia Ovi Store, that will bring the best images of virtual worlds directly into your mobile! Announcements Category: Avatars Panel of Jury made up by Luca Spoldi (Slnn.it founder), Simon Newstead (Frenzoo CEO), Torley Linden (LL documentation … 
Earlier this week, Metaversum released a new version of it's expanding mirror world Twinity. Together with the recent additions to London, this release marks an important phase in the growth of Twinity, as the focus seems to shift from purely technical releases, to facilitating the Twinity residents ('Twinizens') and the community. This is a good thing, as the Twinity …
The MaMachinima International Festival (MMIF) is upon is once again, infact it kicks off this coming Saturday Feb. 20th – One of the key orgainizers is Second Life’s Chantal Harvey. Chanta …
Well, any selection of "best of.." is going to be a purely personal collection of things that have touched something in me and obviously tell more about me than the artists. In fact that is all that really glues them together, they may not even all be uploaded in 2009, but I blogged them in this last year and they have stayed with me as images. This one still amuses me, its …
Along with the amazing digital art, Koinup is a well know destination for machinima-makers and on the website you can watch amazing movies shooted in virtual worlds The following are some of the most acclaimed machinima published on Koinup in 2010 a Patrovsky flux by Toxic Menges <a href="http://www.koi nup.com/toxicmenges/ work/313294/"&am p;amp;gt;a …
dear friends, we're glad to announce the 1.1 Version of Metaverse Wallpapers, the iPhone/iPad app featuring the most amazing Second Life Wallpapers. What's new with this update? Basically we worked on two main areas: 1. Look and Feel The new version is much more elegant and beautiful. We decided to use a different tone and colors for the interface 2. Performance … 
Harper Ganesvoort, Second life blogger and opinion leader, is running a very cool "halloween photo contest". In order to take part in the contest you must join the Wizards and Sorceresses group and submit your virtual worlds screenshots. "Entrants from Second Life are eligible for Linden-dollar cash prizes; all other virtual worlds will be going for fame and recognition"... … 
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