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Walking into new virtual worlds can be an intimidating experience. After the sign-up process, you are thrown in to a new world in nothing but newbie attire. It is almost as bad as walking into a bar full of strangers with a big neon "Newbie" sign hovering over your head. Fortunately, most virtual worlds have helpful places where newbies can settle in and get useful advice. … 
Today, a new expansion to Twinity was released, making well known landmarks such as St. Paul's Cathedral, the Millenium Bridge and the Tate museum available for Twinizens to explore and enjoy. To celebrate the occassion, there's a whole lot of activities to do today; check out the Twinity News section for details. Due to time constraints I can't make it to all of these but I … 
Last year, before I started covering Twinity for the Koinup blog, I did an item on my own blog about the Berlin Wall. The Wall fell 25 years ago, and to commemorate this huge event, Metaversum rebuilt sections of the Wall and the Iron Curtain in Twinity, which could be accessed by special portals. I thought that was a temporary thing, but some of the entries to Cold War … 
Let us update you about the 3D Wallpapers, the mobile app built by Koinup for the Nokia Ovi Store, that will bring the best images of virtual worlds to your mobile. First important news is that you have only one day left to enter your submissions. So far, both the two contests we have launched for the project (Avatars and Second Life snapshots) got a very positive feedback … 
The Virtual Wallpaper Contest has been a fantastic hit. With almost 200 participants, and hundreds of fantastic works, it showed the virtual worlds are a sort of mature tool for creating a …
The "coolest" algorithm is the "Koinup item algorithm" that assigns to any images and videos posted on Koinup a specific weight. Its has been built with the purpose of ranking contents and displaying some of them with more frequency in the front-pages of the website. The "coolest" algorithm is the reason because some works are more frequently seen and displayed than others on …
Stephanie Helsein one of the most active Koinup member has been so kind to post a slideshow tutorial to help some students to join Koinup. I asked her to post the "how to guide" on the Koinup blog, because I thought that some readers could find it very useful. If you have some doubts on how to upload contents, add tags, join groups, etc on Koinup, then this guide it's a must …
We had just announced the images that will be included in The Sims Category of the 3D Wallpapers app. Read the announcement The jury made by Liliana Eden Morosini and Sims2Cri picked about 15 images among the almost 100 wallpapers submitted by the community. Browse, here, all the amazing entries The images picked by the jury will be included in the 3D Wallpapers (starting …
Secondnights, the Second Life Community of entertainment lovers, is partnering with Koinup for the promotion of Metaverse Wallpapers. Secondnights is a great and large community so we now expect more views, more interest and more involvement for the Metaverse Wallpapers project. Secondnights is a website where people who love music, art and entertainment can find information … 
The following is the list of Nokia devices that support 3D Wallpapers app. If you own one of the devices included in the list (or a friend of you owns it), you will be allowed to purchase and enjoy the 3D Wallpapers, once the app will be available in the Ovi Store. We submitted the app some days ago, so we expect the app to be approved in about 10 business days. The 3D … 
Milan, March 17, 2010 - Today, Koinup and Frenzoo.com launch their collaboration, with Frenzoo support in Koinup as well as auto snapshot uploading to Koinup from Frenzoo. 3d avatar lovers can explore a creative online world from in their web browser, then share their experience their Koinup account. The partnership also includes joint events and competitions hosted on both … 
Dear Koinuppers, you're invited to the "2nd Koinuppers party" hosted in BLADERUNNER CITY by Blackmamba Sands and BladeRunnerSPN1977 Sands! Following are the essential information to join the event and get the most out of it! What? The 2nd KOINUPPERS Party Where? BLADERUNNER CITY 2 When? March 19th starting from 1.00 PM SLT ( 9 PM GMT ) Who? Koinuppers and friends! It's …
There are many things that can be said of virtual filmmaker Chantal Harvey. Prolific? Immeasurably. Creative? Without question. The encyclopedia of Miss Harvey's work is vastly diverse; From short corporate commercials and public service announcements earlier on, to bizarre comedic romps and short featurettes ripe with passion. More recently in her lengthy career - She has, …
Newb. It’s more than a word. It’s a title that lingers over your head while you aimlessly venture throughout the worlds of your virtual life. People may ignore you, others will make your v … 
If you are using Twitter or Facebook, maybe you're wondering how to share easily and quickly your Koinup items on these websites. Along, with the crosspost features, we just released a new series of tools for sharing with just "1 click" your Koinup pics on Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz. It's enought that you visit the Koinup image or video that you'd love to share and click … 
Missing in action? You might call Mac the neglected stepchild of the family when it comes to 3d virtual worlds. Whilst Windows has received the lions share of developer attention, Mac has been relegated to an afterthought or at best a future roadmap item. The phrase "you can always run boot camp / parallels" is a familiar refrain for those metaversersians reading this blog … 
The best thing in Secondlife for me has always been the friendships I've made. On a tough RL day, I know my bestests are waiting for me inside to go shake it off by being silly or to listen to me piss and moan. Virtual worlds have made the oceans seem far less vast and forged together unbelievable connections around the world. Koinup's Cream of the Crop today celebrates True … 
We're please to announce the winners of the Koinup Homepage Challenge. Read the full announcement of the winners on this discussion thread In only a few weeks, almost 200 participants submitted about 250 images. Almost all of them would deserve the hall of fame in the Koinup Homepage. We picked 20 images! Discover the winning works here The winning images are going to be … 
Upon returning from holiday, I noticed I missed a new Twinity event: the Twinity Community awards! Obviously an event I would have liked to attend, as I was nominated in the "Best Twinity Blogger" category. I didn't win; the award went (deservedly I might add) to Dee, who is an outstanding, dedicated Twinity blogger. Congratulations to Dee, and all other winners of course! … 
This morning we had such a great surprise by stumbling on a really enthusiastic review of 3D Wallpapers on the official Nokia blog: Ovi Daily App. The article include some useful suggestions to get the most out of the app and it's featuring some screenshots (useful to get a preview of the graphics and wallpapers included in 3D Wallpapers). READ THE POST ON THE OVI DAILY APP … 
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