Koinup Statistics

During the latest months, Koinup grew consistently. The perpetual updates on the website both drove to Koinup new people, I'm thinking mainly to the Places Feature and to the contests and also helped to retain the old members.
So, Today we wanna share with you some preliminary statistics about the website

1) About 100K works uploaded
The major part are images, but there also some some machinima and storyboards.
Almost all the stuffs are from Second Life, The Sims, IMVU members. But I wanna direct your attention also to some relevant stuffs from World of Warcraft and OpenSim

2) About 100K visitors monthly
We are getting traffic from all over the world. There is no area on the earth that it is not represented on Koinup. A big share is from United States and Europe, but also Asia, Oceania, Latin Americas and Africa use to visit Koinup

3) More than 1M impressions monthly
Thanks to Internal Messaging System, The Koinup Visual Editor, The Comment You've Made and other features Koinup is more amusing and people seems to have more engagement with the website. Each visit produce many page views, because people and visitors have fun on Koinup


We are still a small crew, but we are growing quickly and overall we have lot of fun, while doing that!
So thank you very much to all of you for your support, membership and for stopping by
(wherever you are from)

Browse some cool Koinup works, now!

Cool Places in Second Life

Are you looking for some cool hotspots to spend your "virtual" time? The Koinup community is collecting the best second life places

Here are some of the most popular on Koinup, shared and visited by a lot of people, during the latest weeks:

Cu Mara



CREAMSHOP


University of KY



Rez


Blue Galaxy


RMB City


Golgothica


Mont Saint Michel

In memory of Gion Project (The Winners)

dear friends,Sammy Biddle sent us the winners of the Sayonara Gion Project Photo Contest

As you know, we run this competition because the amazing Gion sim is going to close the doors to visitors and together with Sammy Biddle and the entire Gion Project Manager Staff we wanter to create an album of Gion Memories

Anyway, don't want steal your time.....
According the jury, the winner of the Sayonara Gion Contest is:

Rhysackmann with the amazing photo Gion Balance


As rightly said by Sammy Biddle: No one has depicted the five-storied pagoda better than rhys. Thank you very much for sharing this Rhys!

Beside the excellent winner, there are other awesome works that caught
the eyes of the Gion jury. Following are these cool Runners-up

Carlotta Ceawlin with the amazing gion

Hearth with the amazing red_b

ChromeUnderwood with the gorgeous gion20a_1024

Koinup Staff and Sammy Biddle have to thank you all for entering the Sayonara Gion Photo Contest. Sammy Biddle wrote us in the email: "with a number of brilliant and impressive pictures, I'm glad that I can share the memories of the Gion Project with each of you. Thank you again and see you someday, somewhere!"

The winner is invited to contact inworld Sammy Biddles for claiming the prize!

I wanna also direct your attention to the community most beloved entries:

Gion Memories by the excellent Nedeko

The Moment by the skilled and awesome BBeau


Reflections by the awesome photographer Icarus Robbiani

Koinup Pathfinder, Third Round: Historical Sims

The third round of the Koinup Pathfinder Competition is devoted to History.

Discover amazing historical sims and win a set of awesome *fresh poses*, supplied by Ana Lutetia

Pay attention to the Second Life Places already featured on Koinup, they can't be included in the count of the new sims discovered

Need some examples of historical themes? A reconstruction of the ancient Rome is historical, a sim filled with pyramids is historical, a remake of Paris in the eighteenth century is historical, a victorian areas and costumes is historical........ hope these suggestions help you to find your course

The Koinup Pathfinder Competition is a weekly contest hosted on Koinup. Each week we will select a theme and we will ask Koinup members to discover new sims related to this theme and post them on Koinup! Read the full description here


The competition will start today wednesday 11/19/08 and will end next week, wednesday 11/26/08. The winners will be announced here on the Koinup Blog

The winners will be announced 11/26/08 and they will be asked to contact us at our official email address: editor@koinup.com for claiming the release of prizes.

The prize of this week is a fantastic set of *fresh poses* created and supplied by the fashionista, poser and blogger Ana Lutetia

Koinup Pathfinder Competition is a competition brought to you by Koinup and sponsored by some of the best known, popular and professional Metaverse Developers.

Image is by Liqueur Felix shooted in New Paris

Pathfinder, second week results

We are ready to announce the winners of the Pathfinder Contest (2nd week competition)! The theme of the week was "Nature" and some members
have discovered (and posted) some amazing naturalistic places.
You can view the whole stream in the latest second life sims discovered....

The winners are:
Solange
Clarrice Cinquetti
Taille
Honour
Carlotta Ceawlin

The following are some of the sims discovered by our cool explorers:
Trees
Cu Mara
Aintree Common

The winners are invited to contact us at editor@koinup.com , letting us know their sl names and claiming the prizes

I remember to all of you that the prize of this week is The FilterCam, the amazing tool for postprocessing the SL photo directly while you are inworld, kindly supplied by Codebastard Redgrave

the image is above is a gorgeous photo by Carlotta Ceawlin taken in Cu Mara

Open Sim Growth

The Open Sims are quickly growing up! Not only in the number of works posted on Koinup
but also in the quality, standards and beauty of stuffs published!

I invite you to have a look at OpenSim page on Koinup and give it a try to these new virtual worlds (open, free and full of opportunities for everyone)

The image above is from Grace

Some super-cool Second Life people like Raul Crimson , PlanetVideo and few others are also trying the new Open Sim Grids, with excellent results....

Orange Island & Koinup Photo Sessions: Cienega Soon

Meet us, Friday 14th of November, on Orange Island at 12PM SLT for our monthly Photo Session co-hosted by Orange-Island and Koinup. We are very proud to welcome one of the most famous and talented artist on Koinup: Cienega Soon.

This time we will intensely study the Cienega Soon's work in Second Life.

From basic photographers to virtual piece of art, h Have you ever wanted to know how SL photographers create those perfect pictures? (Creativity, idea, perfect angle, tools and software…). We'll find out what Cienega is up to and she will give you her best tips and pieces of advice.

You can read more about the story here on the Orange Island blog

Ana Lutetia is joining the Pathfinder Competition

The blogger, designer and pose-maker Ana Lutetia is joining the Pathfinder Competition

Hereafter, winners of the Pathfinder weekly contests will have to opportunity to win a series of poses created by Ana Lutetia

The brand new series of poses created by Ana Lutetia, call it *fresh poses* is one of the most interesting set of poses you can find there in SL

The main store is in the Mystikal Sim

Winners will have the chance to pick 15 Ana's poses and send her a notecard claiming the prize

Reminder: Have a look at the 2nd round of Koinup Pathfinder Competition running these days. Theme of the week is Nature. Jump in SL, discover amazing naturalistic sims and win amazing prizes. Full story here!

Koinup Pathfinder, 2nd round: Discover Naturalistic Sims

The 2nd round of the Koinup Pathfinder Competition is devoted to Nature (virtual nature). Discover Amazing Naturalistic Sims and Win the Awesome FilterCam, supplied by CodeBastard Redgrave
Pay attention to the Places already featured on Koinup, they can't be included in the count of the new sims discovered

The Koinup Pathfinder Competition is a weekly contest hosted on Koinup. Each week we will select a theme and we will ask Koinup members to discover new sims related to this theme and post them on Koinup! Read the full description here

The competition will start today tuesday 11/11/08 and will end next week, tuesday 11/18/08. The winners will be announced next tuesday on the Koinup Blog

The two winners will be announced 11/05/08 and they will be contacted for the release of prizes- They will get the FilterCam supplied by Codebastard Redgrave

The image above has been created by CarlottaCeawlin in the amazing sim:
ZweiteWelt New

You can follow all the discussions on the Koinup Pathfinder Project here

Open Sim: welcome on Koinup!

During the OpenSpace debate, some Koinup members asked us to make available an Open Sim section on Koinup. As you know we are a community based website and love complying with the community wishes! So Voilà, this is the new brand Open Sim to join on Koinup!
Open Sims residents can easily now share their avatars, screenshots, opinions and (virtual life) here on Koinup, and let the other Koinup members know about this world

The launch of the Open Sim world on Koinup means a lot for us and it show our engagement in the Metaverse Open Souce movement. We look forward to see these Open Sims worlds growing up and expand their influence over the whole metaverse and virtual worlds scene.

the machinima above is by Open

Open Forum: What is your Fav Sim for next Safari?

SL Photo Safari is not dead! We are planning many Safaris for the next weeks! The NPIRL Safari Project is live and so much appreciated! But we would love to know your opinion! What is your fav destination for the next Safari Stop! Which are your favourite SL sims ?
Please leave a comment on this post, with name and slurl of the sim you would love to see as the next SL Photo Safari Destination

Pathfinder, first week results!

We are ready to announce the first winners of the Pathfinder Competition! The theme of the first week was Halloween and some members have discovered (and posted) some amazing Halloween places on the SL Places section!

The winners are
Liqueur,
Ambrose,
Natasha-Burke ,
Kirasha

The following are some of most scary Halloween sims:
Sardigna
Neveryear
Virtue

Winners are invited to contact us (write at editor@koinup.com ) and letting us know their SL names in order to release them the amazing prize!

The Koinup Pathfinder competition is sponsored by some of the most important and popular Second Life Developers. The prize of this week is the well know FilterCam, one of the most fashinating tool for SL photographers. The filter cam is supplied by CodeBastard Redgrave

Tomorrow, we will announce the theme of the next week competition!!!!!!!