The official launch of KOINUP

Koinup will now be official launched and is a new way to upload your pictures, and what is interesting, also your machinima. The users will not have a limited space to upload their pictures, what is a good thing, compared to Flickr, where you have to pay to extend your capacity. This new network will not only be used by Second Life residents but also by other virtual life program residents. It has been running now for several months, and now they are ready for the official release.
An upcoming feature is the cross-post tool. You can upload pictures to Koinup and automatically this work will go both in your Koinup page and in your Flickr page. And every time you post a work in Koinup, your page in Twitter will be updated.
Read the Official press release:



Koinup: Share your virtual life
The first social network dedicated to photos, stories and machinima created by virtual worlds citizens

Milan, Italy. September, 2007. After four months of public beta, Koinup srl is pleased to announce the launch of Koinup (http://www.koinup.com), the first social network entirely dedicated to your virtual life.

Koinup (http://www.koinup.com) is a social network for all residents of all virtual worlds. In Koinup you can create your profile and publish pics, videos (machinima) and stories that you created in virtual worlds as Second Life, World of Warcraft, IMVU and also games as The Sims 2 and many others. In Koinup you can meet people from yours and other virtual worlds and you can express yourself in the way you love.

Koinup is a unique websites for creations made in virtual worlds. Each member of Koinup can benefits of almost unlimited storage space (for free) and publish tons of photos and machinima. In Koinup you can share your virtual life and experiences and express yourself by publishing all kind of artworks.

Virtual worlds, mmorpg and metaverses are the new frontiers of internet entertainment and creativity. Each day milions of people spend their time in virtual environments and use these innovative spaces to express themselves and to create art, photos and videos. Metaverses as Second Life and World of Warcraft are reaching the 10 milions of registered users and many other games features more than one milion of active users. The great part of this audience is made up by creative members that use virtual environments to express themselves. Some major virtual worlds are entirely created by their residents, some others provide their members useful tools that encourage the creations of photos, videos (machinima) and other kind of virtual manufacts.

Koinup is a suitable place for all these creative virtual users. Here are some example of machinima, pictures and stories uploaded in Koinup by its users:
Machinima: http://www.koinup.com/works/on-videos/coolest/
Pictures: http://www.koinup.com/works/on-pictures/coolest/
Stories: http://www.koinup.com/works/on-storyboard/coolest/

Koinup srl is a web company based in Brescia (Italy).
Koinup founders are Pierluigi Casolari (CEO) and Edoardo Turelli (CTO)

For press contacts:
Pierluigi Casolari
press@koinup.com

http://www.koinup.com