Orson Pig is the main fictional character in the comic U.S. Acres he is an anthropomorphic pig who is the leader of the farm.
Orgin
He was born March 03, 1986 (also the day the strip premired) as the runt of the litter. Since he was the runt, he was going to be driven away somewhere in the farmers' truck, but the truck hit a rock, and he escaped into the woods. He is found by the U.S. Acres' farmer's daughter, and started living at the farm. A few weeks later, he hatched Booker and Sheldon.
Character bio
He is a friendly, book-reading pig that loves spending time in his waller. He often gets stuck in fantasy worlds when he reads books (such as, if he reads a cook book, the others will get chased by kitchen utensils).
Orgin
He was born March 03, 1986 (also the day the strip premired) as the runt of the litter. Since he was the runt, he was going to be driven away somewhere in the farmers' truck, but the truck hit a rock, and he escaped into the woods. He is found by the U.S. Acres' farmer's daughter, and started living at the farm. A few weeks later, he hatched Booker and Sheldon.
Character bio
He is a friendly, book-reading pig that loves spending time in his waller. He often gets stuck in fantasy worlds when he reads books (such as, if he reads a cook book, the others will get chased by kitchen utensils).
Brittany Washington
Brittany Washington is a 20 year old Howard University Student from Los Angeles California. She is currently studying Political Science and Human Development. Brittany plans to go into Education Public Policy and upon Graduation hopes to join Teach for America. Brittany is the President of her class and the President of the Howard University collegiate chapter of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. She works as a tutor with Paul Public Charter elementary and with she works with Amnesty International as a Human Rights Educator with Anacostia High in Washington DC. Ms. Washington is also the Founder and CEO of the Michelle A Smith Cancer Foundation, an Organization founded in honor of her mother who passed away from breastcancer at the age of 38.
Brittany Washington is a 20 year old Howard University Student from Los Angeles California. She is currently studying Political Science and Human Development. Brittany plans to go into Education Public Policy and upon Graduation hopes to join Teach for America. Brittany is the President of her class and the President of the Howard University collegiate chapter of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. She works as a tutor with Paul Public Charter elementary and with she works with Amnesty International as a Human Rights Educator with Anacostia High in Washington DC. Ms. Washington is also the Founder and CEO of the Michelle A Smith Cancer Foundation, an Organization founded in honor of her mother who passed away from breastcancer at the age of 38.
Emotistyle is similar to emoticon, except that it is based on a theme of a web application or software. They may be a mixture of colors, images and other elements. Each different color represents a different emotion. For example, sky blue represents happinesss and gray represents sadness.
Users most probably are able to change the theme/style according to their preference.
Origination
Emotistyle originated from betaPod, where Sam Yong found out that actually betaPod is able to represent different emotions based on the different site-wide themes. Later on, he introduced it by announcing and introducing to the whole of betaPod:
For example, betaPod have the style color black gloss as undercover.
Users most probably are able to change the theme/style according to their preference.
Origination
Emotistyle originated from betaPod, where Sam Yong found out that actually betaPod is able to represent different emotions based on the different site-wide themes. Later on, he introduced it by announcing and introducing to the whole of betaPod:
For example, betaPod have the style color black gloss as undercover.
Founded in march 2007 by Koinup, Srl. Koinup is a social network dedicated to virtual world users. Koinup members can share all they want about their Virtual life. Right now, Koinup features specific sections dedicated to: Second Life, There.com, IMVU, World of Warcraft and few others. But it support all kind of contents related to virtual worlds, without any exception.
Unlike other social networks, Koinup is totally aimed at the emergent scene of non gaming virtual worlds, captained by Second Life
The main purpose of Koinup is to provide users with a suitable space to share experiences, creations and friends they have in virtual environments. Koinup members have their own gallery and can benefit of 1,5Gb of storage space for free.
Koinup Features
Media
On Koinup user can share all kind of contents. They can upload photos, videos and other kind of contents. The major part of contents uploaded on Koinup are in world Screenshots created by virtual worlds users, while they are inside virtual environments. Like other websites, as machinima.com and few others, Koinup is a relevant resources for machinima artists, which can share for free their movies.
In order to upload contents on Koinup, users have to be register themselves. Since now, there is no premium membership available
Crosspost
Crosspost is an innovative feature supported by Koinup. It provide users with the chance to upload their contents at the same time in Koinup and other other websites as Flickr and Twitter. Crosspost is an innovative way to help people which have several accounts in social network. It is supported also by other websites, as Blip.tv
Virtual broadcasting
Virtual broadcasting is a feature that allow Koinup users to send contents directly from virtual worlds to their Koinup gallery. Right now, virtual broadcasting works only for Second Life residents
Term
Koinup is a derivation of Koinè. Koinè is a synonym of Lingua franca. Greeks used Koinè to refer to a specific language talked with foreign people and aimed at bring peace and cooperation between other countries. Koinup purpose is to become a sort of common language for people coming from different virtual worlds. The term Koinup refer also to “Coin Op” or Coin operated machine, the first machine fully dedicated to arcade game. So Koinup features an hommage to the first video arcades, where gamers used stay together.
Debate
Koinup takes part in the actual relevant debate on avatar Portability and inter-worlds communication. This debate has two major player in the arena that are Linden Lab and IBM. They recently released an associated press release to inform about their commitment on the creation of standard for inter virtual worlds communication. Koinup is aligned on the same position to make some bridge between different virtual world. Koinup main strategy is to allow people from different virtual worlds to join in the same place, contribute on the common ideas, meet one each other and make friendship.
Unlike other social networks, Koinup is totally aimed at the emergent scene of non gaming virtual worlds, captained by Second Life
The main purpose of Koinup is to provide users with a suitable space to share experiences, creations and friends they have in virtual environments. Koinup members have their own gallery and can benefit of 1,5Gb of storage space for free.
Koinup Features
Media
On Koinup user can share all kind of contents. They can upload photos, videos and other kind of contents. The major part of contents uploaded on Koinup are in world Screenshots created by virtual worlds users, while they are inside virtual environments. Like other websites, as machinima.com and few others, Koinup is a relevant resources for machinima artists, which can share for free their movies.
In order to upload contents on Koinup, users have to be register themselves. Since now, there is no premium membership available
Crosspost
Crosspost is an innovative feature supported by Koinup. It provide users with the chance to upload their contents at the same time in Koinup and other other websites as Flickr and Twitter. Crosspost is an innovative way to help people which have several accounts in social network. It is supported also by other websites, as Blip.tv
Virtual broadcasting
Virtual broadcasting is a feature that allow Koinup users to send contents directly from virtual worlds to their Koinup gallery. Right now, virtual broadcasting works only for Second Life residents
Term
Koinup is a derivation of Koinè. Koinè is a synonym of Lingua franca. Greeks used Koinè to refer to a specific language talked with foreign people and aimed at bring peace and cooperation between other countries. Koinup purpose is to become a sort of common language for people coming from different virtual worlds. The term Koinup refer also to “Coin Op” or Coin operated machine, the first machine fully dedicated to arcade game. So Koinup features an hommage to the first video arcades, where gamers used stay together.
Debate
Koinup takes part in the actual relevant debate on avatar Portability and inter-worlds communication. This debate has two major player in the arena that are Linden Lab and IBM. They recently released an associated press release to inform about their commitment on the creation of standard for inter virtual worlds communication. Koinup is aligned on the same position to make some bridge between different virtual world. Koinup main strategy is to allow people from different virtual worlds to join in the same place, contribute on the common ideas, meet one each other and make friendship.