Panoramio's Blog

Some days you feel it would had been better to not quit the bed.
And some days you just can’t quit your bed.
Yesterday I passed all the day with a strong pain in the back, and I couldn’t even go to work. I passed the morning just checking that all the doctors near me where full, […]

I have pushed a new feature in Panoramio.
Now you can say us if your photo is “about” the place you took it, or if the place is somewhat irrelevant.
For instance, if the picture is about a party, or about you in a closed room, then it’s probably not about the place, but about you / […]

Until now we have been very laxists with the moderation of photos in Panoramio, only deleting sexual explicit photos. However many users have complained about the photos that have no relationship whatsoever with the place they were taken (close ups of people, for example).
We understand some people want to share their photos with their friends […]

Being featured in Google Earth gave me the energy to code some long overdue changes to Panoramio.
First, I put a common header in the user and photo pages, so that users can jump directly to their pictures, to the home page, and sign out / sign in easily. I remember Johan said sharing the header […]

The Google Earth pals just linked to us in their list of feeds.
The server is slowly heating. I hope it will support the load, but anyway, that’s the problem any webmaster wants to have
Update: Further proof that our server is heating…

I implemented functions, at last!
So now I can execute:

var a = function fact(i) {
if (i == 1)
return 1;
else
return fact(i - 1);
}

if (a(3) == 6)
“pass”;
else
[…]

On the series of incompatibilites between browsers, I have two new items to show.
First, don’t use location.hash = “#foo” to jump to “foo” link, because Safari will jump to %23foo. Safari’s behaviour seems very logic, but I don’t really know who is right, Safari or the IE / Firefox crowd.
Second, don’t use
<a h ref=”javascript:void(foo())” >foo</a>
You […]

(Please, excuse my lame rip-off of Paul Graham’s title)
I shall say it up-front. I don’t like captchas.
For those in the dark, captchas are images of words, usually distorted. Sites that accept public comments ask their users to write the word in the captcha. If the user is able to read the word, then the system […]