Koinup partners with Club Cooee

We're glad to announce that we're running a partnership with Club Cooee. Club Cooee is a 3D chat where you can chat with friends from all over the world, dress up your 3D avatar, create and decorate your 3D chat rooms and enjoy music, videos and games.

As result of the partnership, Club Cooee members have a specific Club Cooee channel on Koinup, accessible from the main menu. At the same time, Koinup will be recommended to Club Cooee members as media of choice to share snapshots and machinima.

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Koinup is finalist at the Techgarage Startup Award!

We are so proud to announce that Koinup is one of the 10 finalists at the Techgarage Startup Award 09.

Techgarage is one the most important international awards completely devoted to web 2.0 startups and companies. You can read more about Techgarage, here

Here instead, you can read the list of finalists (italian only)

The 10 finalists startups will have the chance to pitch their business in Rome on 22th of may in front of an incredible panel of international investors, venture capitals, and high tech/web experts.

Stay tuned for other notes on the Techgarage award!

Koinup is one of the finalists of the startup 2.0 competition

We're so glad to announce that Koinup is one of the 11 finalists of the startup 2.0 competition. You can read the announcement, here

There were more than 200 projects competing, from which around 160 were approved. They come mainly from Italy and Spain, though there are projects from 15 different countries. There are many social gaming and twitter-based projects and also some very interesting business 2.0 apps.

Startup 2.0 is one of the most authoritative competitions for the young internet startups. As you can read on the official website: "Startup2.0 is a competition of European web 2.0 sites whose objectives are to promote and reward the European startups (either created or willing to do so in the future) that work in the field of 2.0 technologies." (read more)

Orange Island / Koinup Photo Contest: the winners

And the winners are...

Jury Grand Prize

Bella March with Mirror Mirror On The Wall ...







Special Jury Prize

MSnook with the dance of joy




Raul Crimson with Sunlight





Community Prize

Tur with KARMACOMA





Please contact Natty Foggarty in order to arrange the consign of the prize!

We wish to thank all the Orange Staff, for partnering with us and doing a really great job with the Orange Photo Week.



After the announcement, at Orange Island we also set the record for the number of avi in a photo!

This the photo and the record on the map:

Orange Island Photo Week Contest Announcement

You can't miss the Orange Island Contest "One second of reality" announcement of the winners!

Today at 12.00pm SLT, Orange Island Staff and us will be announcing the winners of the Orange/ Koinup Contest with Margherita Bertolucci, Vint Falken and Marco Manray.

Hope to see you there!
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Orange Island/183/117/31