Panoramio's Blog

It had to be done.
Now that the Kansas state finally seems to be receptive about teaching alternative “theories” about the origin of men, it is our duty to do not limit these alternative theories to Intelligent Design, as there are other equally valid theories that can be taught.
I, for one, welcome our new Flying Spaguetti […]

Don’t you love when explorer express its griefs in such a clear and helpful way?
I was putting the last touches to the new “Search place” code, and it was working beautifully in Firefox and in Explorer, when I faced a problem in Safari. The query to the database that retrieves the name of places that […]

I said before that 37signals is one of these companies that “get it”. I do not think however that they have got absolutely everything right.
Point in case, they integrated recently their new Writeboard with Basecamp.
For those not in “the known”, Writeboard let’s you manage the life of a document. You can see and compare older […]

We are surprised about the evolution of Panoramio since the soft launch three weeks ago. Bloggers have been very nice posting about Panoramio. Panoramio also appeared in two major technology news sites (Digg and Barrapunto). From that a lot of traffic came, 536.595 page views until today. As a result already 2.940 pics have been […]

Stefan Geens suggested to publish a KML Network Link with the latest pictures of Panoramio.
I did not know what is a KML Network Link, but it sounds cool, so I looked up the documentation, and implemented a KML Network Link for Panoramio.
How does it work?
You just install Google Earth on your computer, and click on […]

And we have a logotype!

The father of this logo is Mike Rohde, of Makalumedia.
I will blog more about the whole process soon, but I wanted to share first the news with all of you

Technorati Tags: logo, panoramio

Eduardo has contacted some pals in the usability field, and Christopher Grant and Albert Ribera sent back to us a review of Panoramio. They found a lot of little and not so little problems, so I decided (with their permission) to post it here along with my replies. I will start with the problems found […]

We are now working in browser compatibility. Explorer 6 and Firefox 1.0.7 should work okay. It’s still not possible to post pictures with Safari and there are some bugs in Opera and Firebird, but we are fixing them. If Panoramio doesn’t work properly in your browser, please report it to the support forum.
Today we […]

Some big names are redoing their webmail interfaces, in response to GMail. They are redoing the whole thing using a richer interface.
Basically, both of them are building something akin Outlook on html / javascript. And they are so wrong.
GMail has show us that you can implement responsive applications on a browser. It raised the bar. […]

The good news: Yesterday Panoramio appeared in some big sites and visitors came fast and furious. Hundreds of amazing pics around the world were posted; Moscow, Italy, California, London, Kizhi (Russia), etc. We added a small world map to the photo page in order to give an idea of where the picture was located. […]