some acknowledgements for the Sims contest

We at Koinup wanna thank you some people that helped us to make the Spring Contest a great competition! At first we are very-very grateful with:
Sims2Cri, she has been so great in helping us to choose the theme of the contest, suggest featurs and she helped us also in spreading the word about the contest!
We are very grateful also with Decorgal, she was so busy with her works, but she found some time to team up with us and working on the prices!
Last but not least we are so grateful with TicTic, she has been so kind to take part in this "venture" and she is doing a great job, commenting, browsing and analyzing all the entries of the contest!
Thank you to all of you!

Sims 2 Photo Contest! (Spring Competition!)

Take part in the Sims 2 “Spring” Contest and Submit your Photos! Decorgal has been so kind to create some cool poses! Amazing prices are waiting for you! (For Sims players, only)

Why not look the spring with your Sims eyes!?

This Koinup Sims 2 Photo Contest is about the concept of “Spring” and how this concept has turned out in The Sims 2

As you can imagine, the term spring has many meanings. Spring mean the wake up of the nature, but also the awakening of feelings and instincts. Springs is the season of the style and the period of romances!

Have a look at the contest page for all the rules, and learn how to win the amazing prices! Some Members have started to post their entries!

Decorgal, the well known content developer and machinima maker, has been so kind to create a set of unpublished poses for the Contest Winners!

Here are the latest entries

There will be 4 winners! Three of them will be selected by our authoritative judges:
Decorgal , TicTicc13, Sims2Cri

The fourth winners will be the community winners! Read the rules to learn how to become the community winner!

Third Winner and Honorable mentions!

I'm glad to announce the third winner of the IMVU Fashion Contest and also to tell you which are all the other entries that deserve according to our judges an honorable mentions!

Here are the tree winners:
QT3point14
katielovelace
BabyGiuly


Following are instead Artworks that according to our judges deserved an honorable mentions
http://www.koinup.com/klezita/work/22070/
http://www.koinup.com/mischalei/work/22306/
http://www.koinup.com/LucidityLashes/work/20168/
http://www.koinup.com/brianNgege/work/21115/
http://www.koinup.com/Honeybabeh/work/20140/

Thought only winners will got the 30,000 credits of the prices
Honorable mentioned works will be showcased in our Museum! A more than honorable price!


Beside all these amazing entries, I wanna embed here on the blog some other pics that we from The Koinup Staff particolarly loved and are fond of them.....

The IMVU Winners Are

Hi Guys, Its time for the IMVU Fashion Contest announcement! Currently we don't have all three winners....but only the first two........Judges are discussing the third one......
Anyway, The firt two winners of the IMVU Fashion contest are:

1) Katielovelace with the entry:
http://www.koinup.com/katielovelace/work/20839/

2) QT3point14 with the entry:
http://www.koinup.com/QT3point14/work/20693/

In a few hours we will be able to announce the third winner......
with some other works that have deserved the honorable mention!

look here the official announcement

and all the amazing entries

Improvement on the personal messaging

Some people ask us to improve our messaging! We are doing it! With the new update you can choose to make visible your email address and allow the recipients to reply directly to you!

Until now, if you have sent a message to members of Koinup, they received it in their email boxes with the Koinup Service Email address, so that they weren't able to reply to you directly


In order to reply to your message, they would have to login Koinup, reach your page and send a private message you, too!

Too much steps!

Now, with this feature, you can send a private message and allow the recipient to receive the message from your email address, so he will be able to reply to you directly, from his email box (only one step!)

To make visible your email address, you have to check the “Show my email address” option and then “send” the message


The Image above is self-evident

Messages Removing Feature

Some weeks ago we took cognizance that we didn't provided users with the chance to delete comments posted by others on their works and/or their profiles
We promptly added this feature in the last days! It is a minor updates but it allow users a better control on their pages on Koinup.
All the more, last week we enabled the Broadcast message, so it is possible that user-homes are reached by a growing numbers of messages (broadcast or personal)!
Obviously, you can find the link to remove messages and comments, beside the messages and comments boxes

Submissions are closed! Judges are working!

Submissions for the IMVU Fashion Contest are closed! We are so glad of the positive feedback! More than 120 amazing entries! Thank you to all contestants!

Some of the coolest IMVU artists took part in the contest and submit awesome pictures (look here for the entries)! It has been a real success for us! Now judges, ErinRN, Alexus2k7, Nikalu are reviewing your works and in a few days they will pick the winners!

As you know, March, 21 we will announce the winners!
But I wanna give you an excting news......together with the tree winners, other selected-honorable entries will be showcased in the Koinup Virtual Museum!

So stay tuned for the updates!


Good Luck to all of you!

And the winners are.......

I'm so glad to tell you the winners of the Second Life Photo Exotic Contest! Our judges after a weeks to take decision, eventually picked the two stars!

The winners are:
VintFalken with the entry: Being kissed by a virtual squid
Cienega with the entry: Twin Paths

But there are much more announcements to do, so please go in the announcement pages, to read all about this!

Which is your World! Help us to know it!

An other update for you! We have just launched a new feature, that allow you to select your (favorite) virtual world! You can find the featured in your launchpage, each time you login on Koinup!

This feature is really useful for us, because thanks to this, we will serve to you announcements and tips really relevant for you and your world!

If you are a member of Second Life, maybe you can be interested in our Second Life features as the "Send a Postcards" or in our Second Life contests
At the same time if you are a member of IMVU, you can be interested in our Koinup brand features specifically aimed at the IMVU members, as IMVU Museum

Same for other worlds, as The Sims, vSide, There, World of Warcraft and others

we are building a customized experience for each world.....so please, select your world and help us to give you relevant and interesting communications and announcements!

Broadcast to all your friends

I'm glad to announce the release of a new Koinup feature: The Broadcast Message
Broadcast allow you to send group message to all you friends!

Youtube and Myspace users already know this kind of group message system!
It is very useful to make important announcement or to updated your friends about your life and works!

You can find the link to send broadcast messages, in your profile, under the message box!


I'm sure you will enjoy this new Koinup Brand Feature

Exotic Contest: Submission is Closed

Time for submissions is closed, now! Thank very much to everybody for the great entries and for the amazing works you have uploaded on Koinup! March, 13
will be officially announced the winners of the contest here on this blog and
on the Contest Page

But as you can imagine, we already know which is the community winner, that is the most coolest work in the date of March, 6 ......

The Community Winner is......
flov2005

Congratulation flov2005 your amazing photo "SHAKIRA @ Second Life"!
has obtained a great, unique success!!!


The other two winners will be selected by our autorithative jury, made up of Hamlet Au and Mario Gerosa.

Prices will be consigned to all the winners in the days following election. More details about the consign will be said on this blog.

Stay tuned, guys....if you haven't win the community price, it doesn't mean that you can't win

Our Judges are reviewing the works and in a few day we all know the other winners!!!

We at Koinup are so honored to have so much amazing artists and photographers on board of the website........

We hope this could be the first of a long series of amazing events on Koinup!



Following are the first 10th coolest entries...according to the Koinup Community...

Last hours for Your Exotic Submissions!

There are only a few hours to submit your entries for the SL Contest. If you haven't already uploaded your pics, please jump in SL and take your exotic shoots!

As you know there are amazing prices for winners!
Each one of the winners will get 20000L$ and last but not least they
will be featured on the amazing New World Notes and on the autorhitative Mario Gerosa blog!

One suggestions? Please think what could be Exotic in your Second Life? I' not sure that Exotic has the same meaning in RL and in SL.....

There are the latest entries