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A while ago I put in Panoramio a put a simple spam barrier in Panoramio. You want to post a comment? You have to tell me the name of your planet.
Stupid? yup, simple? yup, effective? until a couple of weeks ago, yup.
And then something happen. The spam barrier was somewhat broken, and big way. Panoramio […]

In Panoramio we have redesigned the photo upload interface in a radical way.
I personally think the current widget to upload files used in browsers is horrible. It looks like a dynosaur from older times, when your files were named C:\hi.txt instead of C:\Documents and Settings\foo\My Documents\My Images\DSGN003.jpg. And don’t get me started on its lack […]

Panoramio was given an Honorable Mention for the Web 2.0 Awards in the category of Mapping. We are very pleased for this mention, especially because Panoramio was released just 7 months ago.
The winners of the Mapping category are 1. Wayfaring, 2. Frappr and 3.Housingmaps.
My favourite has always been Frappr. The idea (members of […]

Oh, lazy web, do you know why, oh why, does it takes more than 30 seconds to enter the site admin of a wordpress powered blog? (this very one, in fact)
I would also be grateful if you know how to fix it!

Until now I’ve used a bicubic resizing of the images. If you don’t know what does “bicubic” means, suffice to say that it makes smaller images smooth. It makes them blury, in fact.
So know I apply a Lanczos filter to make the resize, couple with a little local contrast improvement filter.
Both effects are quite subtle, […]

En Panoramio hemos rediseñado el proceso de subida de fotos de manera radical para permitir una interacción similar a la de una aplicación.

1. Sube cuantas fotos quieras de una vez
Tradicionalmente cuando se quieren subir muchas fotos el sistema obliga a subirlas en lotes, por ejemplo de 5 en 5. Esto obliga a estar […]