Unfortunately due to a schedule conflict (RL and TZ are bitches!) I cannot attend to the Koinup Machinima Contest ceremony at Orange Island. But the winners are already announced on Koinup. Myself and Tao Takashi each chose a winner and the community chose their own favourite, which was also my first choice.

Here are the top winners:

• The Little Newbie by Alienhearts (community winning machinima)
• “The Cats Will Play” Grindhouse Tribute by Bkiddo
• ChouChou by ChouChou

They will receive a cash prize from Koinup, and a license for MachinimaCam HUD Pro as soon as I can go inworld to deliver it.

There was a very high amount of outstanding work presented for this contest, the choice was very hard. I encourage all participants to continue working on doing machinima, many of you are extremely talented and are showing some real skills for the art.

Again, congratulations to the winners, and thank you all for your very active participation to this contest. Thanks to Tao Takashi for co-judging this contest, and thanks to Pierluigi of Koinup for giving me this opportunity to see all those marvelous pieces of work.

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A few things makes it different. It comes with all interesting feeds, mostly selected by AllTop.Com staff themselves. Then you can remove the feeds that are no interest to you. With what remains, a simple mouseover lets you overview the news quite nicely. Click it and you get the news directly from the blogger’s mouth.
Thanks to Guy Kawasaki, chief evangelist of AllTop.Com, and avid Twiteroo, my feed is now on this website. It now replaced my default page on my SL dedicated machine.