Discover Real Life Locations in Second Life

With more than 10.000 Sims included in the area, the Koinup Places is one of the most huge directories of Second Life destinations. We saw recently some bloggers using it to discover in the Metaverse virtual replica and remakes of real cities. On My Second Closet blog - authored by Felicity Blumenthal - you can read a very interesting story set in Venexia - a "Venetian inspired sim build, complete with waterways for gondola" (read more) found in the Koinup Places.

We are using the Google Custom Search on Koinup, so if you will use to search internally on Koinup for locations you will get always relevant results, based on the Google algorithm and on the thousands of excellent locations, shared on Koinup by the community.

How to use Koinup Places

If you're a Second Life blogger, you can use the Second life Location Directory on Koinup to discover amazing and highly photogenic Second Life places to set your photo shootings. That's what is doing the awesome fashionist blogger Felicity Blumenthal. She browsed among the most coolest locations and found the outstanding Japan Chubu (here the Japan Chubu section on Koinup and here the direct teleport), where she set a shooting.

I really invite you to have a look at the Felicity Blumenthal blog and/or enjoy her fashion blogpost in Japan Chubu

The Graphic dreamer of the week is Betty Rogan

According to Mondi Virtuali, the italian magazine fully dedicated to virtual worlds, the graphic dreamer of the week is the Koinup artist Betty Rogan. I invite you to read the story here and browse the amazing Betty's gallery on Koinup.

If you don't know yet, Graphic dreams is a project co-branded by MondiVirtuali and Koinup, whose goal is to promote and highlight the best examples of virtual worlds creativity and graphic art.

If you're a metaverse artist or photographer, you can submit your images to the graphic dreams group on Koinup and get the chance of a mention on MondiVirtuali columns. On a weekly base, Mondi Virtuali board pick an artist as graphic dreamer of the week. Who will be the next?

Happy 2012!

We wish you all of you a wonderful 2012!!!!!


(image by Sonicity)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from the Koinup staff to all the Koinup members and readers. Thanks for being part of this community! we absolutely want to thank you for all your kind support and for the amazing creativity you're bringing in Koinup. Have a wonderful and special new year!

Image by Shmoo_Snook

How to get the most with Koinup Places

One of the main challenges for Metaverse developers is to make ease the discovery of new areas and places to visit for their users. We at Koinup thought that the most interesting places in the metaverse are those more shared by the visitors. Because of this reason, we created the Koinup Places directory, where you can find Second Life places discovered/shared by Koinup members. If you're looking for new places to visit (and use them as set for photoshootings) you can browse the most recent places section, while if you're looking for highly popular places you can visit the "most coolest section".

Some of the most authoritative bloggers are adopting the Koinup Places as guide to discover amazing places to talk about. Here you can read an interesting story by Strawberry Singh based in Atrum, an amazing Second Life sim, discovered via Koinup Places

(above a lovely picture by Strawberry Singh)

How to discover the most photogenic Second Life destinations

When we launched the Koinup Places our goal was about giving virtual worlds people an effective tool to discover the most incredible and beautiful Second life destinations. Today, we are glad to announce that Strawberry Singh - one of the most cool Second Life blogger and also a brilliant metaverse artist (here, her koinup profile) - started to embrace Koinup Places to choose the locations for her amazing blog-photo-shootings. 
Strawberry uses to wear amazing fashion outfits, and by settings the shootings in original and unique Second Life locations, she create amazing stories for the blog.  Have a look at the latest Strawberry Post and teleport to the same location to enjoy the atmosphere.


There are various tools to discover outstanding places in Second Life, the most known is the useful Second Life Destination and we highly suggest to use it. But if you're looking for a complete user generated directory most focused on photogenic and visually appealing places, you can enjoy and browse the Koinup Places. Have a look at the most coolest places of the week

Graphic Dreamer of the week is the Frenzoo Artist Sincetta

According to the board of MondiVirtuali - the virtual world magazine - the graphic dreamer of the week is Sincetta. Sincetta is active on Koinup since a couple of years and almost all her pictures are taken in 3d browser based virtual world Frenzoo. I invite you to read the interesting review of Sincetta art on Mondi Virtuali and/or browse the amazing Sincetta art gallery on Koinup.

if you're wondering how to get a mention on MondiVirtuali, read here to get all details

A New Photo Contest at Koinup

The team behind NeoVictoria, the well known Second Life Roleplaying Sim, is running an interesting photo contest on Koinup. Basically, the participants are requested to take photos that represent the spirit of this amazing sim and submit them to the group. In order to join the contest, it's enough to visit the sim, take some photos and submit the contents to the NeoVictoria group on Koinup. All the info, here! Good Luck!

Above a wonderful view of NeoVictoria. Snap taken by one of the first participants of the contest selena85

Amazing Second Life artists featured on Contact Sheet

The Contact Sheet (the weekly column on Harper Ganesvoort Blog dedicated to the most amazing examples of metaverse art) is live this week with an interesting post focused on two amazing Koinup artists: Lanay and Sythos. I really suggest you to have a read at the story, here. Above one of the images featured in the story, by Lanay