Panoramio’s Team

Joaquín Cuenca Abela, co-founder

I started playing with computers at 8 (1984) at first copying little BASIC programs and wondering what could possibly mean “ready>” in english... I eventually moved to more complex problems and switched to C much later (1992).

I have a MS in Fundamental Physics from the University of Valencia and MS in Computer Science from both University of Valencia and Paris Sud XI University.

I have been a active member of the GNOME community. I ported Abiword (a cross platform word processor) to the GNOME framework and I maintained Glade 3 among other things.

I worked in two companies in Paris, Celium in 2000-02 and Wizart 2002-05 working mainly with C on Windows, some assembler and a little bit of Java.

In summer 2005 I started to work on Panoramio in my free time together with Eduardo Manchón. I work full time on Panoramio from 2006.

Eduardo Manchón Aguilar, co-founder

Psychologist specialized in Human Computer Interaction, I have been working at the Usability field the last 7 years. I have a MS in Psychology from the University of Valencia and studied a couple of years at the University of Bergen (Norway).

Since 2001 I have written more than 120 articles about usability, user research methodology, strategy, etc. in Ainda.info (my personal site) and Alzado.org (co-founder). I also frequently teach courses and conferences all around Spain. I have been referenced and interviewed in several Spanish media.

For three years I worked in online banking in lacaixa.es in Barcelona designing user interfaces for web browsers, cell phones and ATMs. From 2004 to 2006 I have been an independent consultant in the field of usability.

When on July 2005 my old friend Joaquín Cuenca told me his idea about geopositioning photos in Google Maps I loved it, so we quickly founded Panoramio and launched on October 3th.

Jose Florido Conde

26 year old web designer from Málaga specialized in web standards and accessibility. I am in charge of most of the HTML/CSS from Panoramio and graphic design.

Since four years, I work professionally in design and development of web applications at Ávidos, a small company I co-founded. I frequently teach courses about web standards and accessibility in Madrid and Málaga.

I'm founder and administrator of Ovillo.org, a community about web standards in Spanish language with 1.800 members. Nowadays I finish my Business Administration studies at University of Málaga.

I met Eduardo and Joaquín when I was working at Loquo.com. Since then we are in touch, so when they proposed me to join Panoramio's team at the end of the 2006 summer, I quickly accepted.