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Finally plans changed in the last minute and Joaquin Cuenca, the other co-founder of Panoramio, attended the Panoramio meeting in London instead of me last week. More than 40 people came to the Google offices and Joaquin told me they had a lot of fan chatting about the site and photography until late in the […]

Last weekend Panoramio suffered a Spam attack. Thousands of users were automatically created by a spammer and thousands of comments with malicious links were posted.
We reacted started deleting those fake users and comments using an internal automated script, but soon we realized that it was going to take too long for the database to […]

This time the update was smaller and photos up to ID 8920000 have been added to Google Earth, that means around 150,000 photos. The next update will be around June 27th and will include photos uploaded before June 10th.

Finally we are ready to announce the winners of the Panoramio monthly Contest for March 2008 edition. They are really cool photos among them. The sponsor ATP will contact the winners during the next days in order to send the prizes.
First Prize of Scenery category

taken in the FYRM by Neim Sejfuli ♦
First Prize of Heritage […]

Since last Thursday some searches in Google Maps displays photos from Panoramio in the left bar, including the option of watching more photos over the map. Try for example to search for “London” to get some cool photos from the city.
Also since today in Google Maps there is a new feature called “More…” located beside […]

Now it is time for London. We would like to celebrate the 5 millionth photo shared on Panoramio with a meeting of contributors and friends on May 22th in London.
We will meet in the Google offices, where we will have an informal gathering and have something to eat and drink (BBQ if London’s weather […]

The Panoramio meeting in Barcelona was great. The atmosphere was very nice and I was delighted to chat with Panoramio contributors. I felt very good there. The spectacular sights of Barcelona from the Mirablau bar and the “tapas” helped to create the right feeling. Take a look at this shot from Ulises888 to get an […]