<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/atom10full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044</id><updated>2016-08-07T05:10:16.092-07:00</updated><category term="Contest" /><category term="Panomeeting" /><title type="text">Panoramio - Google Maps</title><subtitle type="html">Share your photos of the world on Google Maps and Google Earth.</subtitle><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.panoramio.com/" /><link rel="next" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false" /><author><name>ThatAdamGuy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16140927615846645158</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>338</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/panoramio/Riqg" /><feedburner:info uri="panoramio/riqg" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-8045914352379347430</id><published>2013-11-12T12:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2013-11-12T12:24:16.478-08:00</updated><title type="text">Meet photographers &amp; get more exposure by connecting your Panoramio account to Google+</title><content type="html">Today we’re announcing a new feature in &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Panoramio&lt;/a&gt; that provides you with an option to link your Google+ profile to your Panoramio account. This will help you get more exposure for your photographs (pun intended) and enable you to connect with other passionate photographers. With &lt;a href="https://www.google.com/maps/views" target="_blank"&gt;Google Maps Views&lt;/a&gt;, we’ve seen panoramic photographers who have really enjoyed interacting both there and on Google+, so we wanted to make this available to everyone on Panoramio as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Linking your Google+ account to Panoramio takes just a few seconds. Once you’re signed in, simply look for the promotion on the top of most pages within the Panoramio site. We’ve made it easy for you to add people to your Google+ circles if they’ve linked their accounts, so look for the “Add to Circles” widget throughout the site, such as on your “Favorite Photographers” list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many Panoramio users are well-known by a user name that is different than their real name. We know this is important to some of you in the Panoramio community, so we welcome you to use the “nickname” feature in your Google+ profile in addition to your name. To learn more about nicknames or using your initials instead of your full name, please read the &lt;a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1228271?hl=en" target="_blank"&gt;Google+ profile names policy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We hope this new feature will help you interact with and discover more passionate photographers around the web while getting more exposure for your own photos. If you have any questions, please visit our &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/help/gplus-faq" target="_blank"&gt;FAQ page&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/panoramio-questions-support/_2NBngaJTaE"&gt;this thread in the Support and Feedback forum&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Posted by &lt;a href="https://www.google.com/+EvanRapoport" target="_blank"&gt;Evan Rapoport&lt;/a&gt;, Product Manager, Panoramio &amp;amp; Google Maps&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/c4NCTyrc0V8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/8045914352379347430" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/8045914352379347430" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/c4NCTyrc0V8/meet-photographers-get-more-exposure-by.html" title="Meet photographers &amp; get more exposure by connecting your Panoramio account to Google+" /><author><name>Evan Rapoport</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11618083998074582924</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2013/11/meet-photographers-get-more-exposure-by.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-2888041993972826787</id><published>2013-08-29T17:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2013-08-29T17:42:22.394-07:00</updated><title type="text">A beautiful new look for Panoramio</title><content type="html">The photographers in the &lt;a href="http://panoramio.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Panoramio&lt;/a&gt; community continue to amaze us every day with their passion for documenting the world through photos. The millions of photos uploaded by both amateur and professional photographers bring jaw-dropping beauty to Google Maps and Google Earth, helping to make them the most comprehensive and accurate representations of our planet. Panoramio's members celebrate the places that we love, allow us to discover new places to go, and gives us a glimpse of exotic destinations we may only dream of visiting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LCsXqydIKe4/Uh_E4oXXo1I/AAAAAAABK8s/SZga2PLEuF0/s1600/googlemaps_photos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="197" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LCsXqydIKe4/Uh_E4oXXo1I/AAAAAAABK8s/SZga2PLEuF0/s400/googlemaps_photos.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i style="text-align: start;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The new Google Maps makes it easy and enjoyable to discover photos of the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today we’re excited to introduce a new visual design for Panoramio. We've made photos the hero on the page while still keeping the important features that people enjoy. On the photo page, by far the most popular on the site, we’ve made the photo over three times bigger! We’ve also made thumbnails on the profile page and the world map significantly bigger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RSChhj43Naw/Uh_GuZKgkmI/AAAAAAABK84/iK0_YCqh6cc/s1600/panoramio_photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="183" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RSChhj43Naw/Uh_GuZKgkmI/AAAAAAABK84/iK0_YCqh6cc/s320/panoramio_photo.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The new design makes the photo the hero of the page.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WUDSt8mlCVM/Uh_GuWZONII/AAAAAAABK88/okb0rm9M6Sc/s1600/panoramio_profile.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="182" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WUDSt8mlCVM/Uh_GuWZONII/AAAAAAABK88/okb0rm9M6Sc/s320/panoramio_profile.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The new user profile page makes photo thumbnails much bigger.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;We know that Panoramio members have used the existing design for years, so the “classic” version will still be available for a little while. We’ve worked closely with some longtime members to understand unique uses of the product and done our best to preserve these work flows. Please provide your feedback on this new design in our “Support and Feedback” &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/forum" target="_blank"&gt;forum&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We hope that you’ll love exploring and contributing photos in the new Panoramio!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Posted by &lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/117971837164857644538/posts" target="_blank"&gt;Evan Rapoport&lt;/a&gt;, Product Manager for Panoramio and Google Maps&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/bqcG3xfkc8g" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/2888041993972826787" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/2888041993972826787" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/bqcG3xfkc8g/a-beautiful-new-look-for-panoramio.html" title="A beautiful new look for Panoramio" /><author><name>Evan Rapoport</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11618083998074582924</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LCsXqydIKe4/Uh_E4oXXo1I/AAAAAAABK8s/SZga2PLEuF0/s72-c/googlemaps_photos.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2013/08/a-beautiful-new-look-for-panoramio.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-9053854381506712627</id><published>2012-11-29T01:58:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-11-29T04:39:13.659-08:00</updated><title type="text">Panoramio to Google+</title><content type="html">2 years ago, we launched a feature that allowed all Panoramio users to &lt;a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/uploading-your-picasa-web-albums.html"&gt;import their photos from Picasa Web Albums&lt;/a&gt; into Panoramio so they could share them with the world via Google Maps and Google Earth. Many Panoramio users are Google+ users, and many Google+ users are Panoramio users. It is for this reason that I am very excited to announce today that we are bringing both worlds a bit closer by allowing Panoramio users to export their photos to Google+ as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why this is so important:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://plus.google.com/local"&gt;Google+ Local&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photos copied from Panoramio associated to a place will be featured in &lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/local"&gt;Google+ Local&lt;/a&gt; giving more visibility to the work of creators:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MSIsMUNjuO8/ULcxJfRZxqI/AAAAAAAAAjQ/MJRfqoP4P6s/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2012-11-29%2Bat%2B10.53.52%2BAM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="171" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MSIsMUNjuO8/ULcxJfRZxqI/AAAAAAAAAjQ/MJRfqoP4P6s/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2012-11-29%2Bat%2B10.53.52%2BAM.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Storage and Data Liberation&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Panoramio has unlimited storage for geo-positioned images with a maximum of 25 MBytes or 50 Mpixels per photo. By exporting all your photos to Google+, you will be able to download a security copy of all your photos by visiting the &lt;a href="https://www.google.com/settings/exportdata"&gt;Download your data&lt;/a&gt; link under Google Accounts. From there you will be able to download a .zip file with all your photos and albums from Picasa Web Albums.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will also create a copy of your original photo that will include the modification you make in Panoramio (geo-position, place association, tags and title) so you can keep the content you create in Panoramio offline.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The original image is in the format:&lt;br /&gt;http://www.panoramio.com/photos/original/1000.jpg&lt;br /&gt;The downloadable version of the original with geotags is in the format: http://www.panoramio.com/photos/d/1000.jpg&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;Google+&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sharing your photos in Google+ will be easier than ever as by uploading your photos in Panoramio, you will automatically upload your photos in Google+, so you can get the best of both worlds. With all these changes we hope to bring you more choice, exposure and freedom for your photos of the World, and we hope you like it as much as we do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To activate the feature go to &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/settings"&gt;www.panoramio.com/settings&lt;/a&gt; and for more information about this new feature, please visit &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/help/adding_photos#export_photos_to_picasa"&gt;Exporting photos to Picasa Web Albums or Google+&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Posted by &lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/107808257391213832544/posts"&gt;+Gerard Sanz&lt;/a&gt;, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/Md_BoEYO_74" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/9053854381506712627" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/9053854381506712627" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/Md_BoEYO_74/panoramio-to-google.html" title="Panoramio to Google+" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MSIsMUNjuO8/ULcxJfRZxqI/AAAAAAAAAjQ/MJRfqoP4P6s/s72-c/Screen%2BShot%2B2012-11-29%2Bat%2B10.53.52%2BAM.png" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/11/panoramio-to-google.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-3902702285378153310</id><published>2012-11-06T23:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-11-06T23:36:02.394-08:00</updated><title type="text">Panoramio photos in Photo Tours</title><content type="html">Earlier this year we launched &lt;a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.ch/2012/04/visit-global-landmarks-with-photo-tours.html"&gt;photo tours in Google Maps&lt;/a&gt;. Photo Tours are made using public user-contributed photos from Picasa Web Albums and Panoramio.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uOFsYp7AtUs" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today we are making it easy, for the Panoramio community to discover which of their Photos are sponsored in photo tours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To find the photo tours that contain Panoramio photos, check under the Explore tab in Panoramio and click on the option "Photos with tours". That will open a map with all the photos in Panoramio that can start a tour. To open a tour, just select the photo you want to visit from the map, and follow the "Photo Tour" link that you find under the photo. Please note that using photo tours requires &lt;a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.ch/2011/10/step-inside-map-with-google-mapsgl.html"&gt;Google Maps with WebGL&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We hope you have fun exploring tours. Each of your contributions to Panoramio have made this possible. This is a feature we are extremely excited about, and by making it more accessible, we hope you all enjoy it as much as we do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Posted by &lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/107808257391213832544/posts"&gt;Gerard Sanz&lt;/a&gt;, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/unAK0RCovpA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/3902702285378153310" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/3902702285378153310" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/unAK0RCovpA/panoramio-photos-in-photo-tours.html" title="Panoramio photos in Photo Tours" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/uOFsYp7AtUs/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/11/panoramio-photos-in-photo-tours.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-8475900521768155422</id><published>2012-10-21T22:50:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-10-26T07:24:04.046-07:00</updated><title type="text">Panoramio: A couple of days in maintenance</title><content type="html">We have been working hard during the last months in making Panoramio more stable and reliable for our photo community to continue sharing and enjoying photos of the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From today and during a couple of days we need to put Panoramio in read-only mode to make those changes available and it is for this reason that while Panoramio is still accessible, some actions such as uploading a photo will not be available.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following message will display in Panoramio: &lt;i&gt;"Panoramio is undergoing maintenance. During this time, it is not possible to change any information in Panoramio, such as writing a comment, uploading a photo, or changing your description in the profile"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We expect this to be completed by Thursday, but it may last until Friday when Panoramio will again be fully functional.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While this maintenance tasks are running, we want to thank you for your understanding. Photo processing is not a fast task, so we hope you enjoy these couple of days processing your photos and making them ready for our return.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Update 26th Oct: Maintenance is finished and the site is back to normal state. If there are some problems please report them in &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/forum/view/panoramio-group-__root__?place=topic%2Fpanoramio-questions-support%2F9RpFBA-eO70%2Fdiscussion"&gt;this forum post&lt;/a&gt;. Many thanks again for the patience while we worked on this maintenance tasks that are needed to keep the site in healthy state.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Posted by Gerard Sanz, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/85EK825-IJI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/8475900521768155422" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/8475900521768155422" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/85EK825-IJI/panoramio-couple-of-days-in-maintenance.html" title="Panoramio: A couple of days in maintenance" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/10/panoramio-couple-of-days-in-maintenance.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-7849622764450522191</id><published>2012-08-20T09:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-08-21T02:14:48.929-07:00</updated><title type="text">Putting the Panorama in Panoramio</title><content type="html">Ever since we launched Panoramio people have wondered what was our story around panoramas. Starting today our &lt;a href="http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/04/explore-panoramios-approach-to-photo.html"&gt;photo explorer&lt;/a&gt; supports flat and spherical panoramas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spherical panoramas provide a 360 view of a place. Check this example of the &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo_explorer#user=1854648&amp;amp;with_photo_id=14231469&amp;amp;order=date_desc"&gt;Holocaust Monument&lt;/a&gt; taken by M.Reinhardt in Berlin, Germany. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo_explorer#user=1854648&amp;amp;with_photo_id=14231469&amp;amp;order=date_desc" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o2VqE3M1wzs/UDJZJ1FGMII/AAAAAAAAAfU/4OBj70F62eE/s400/Spherical.jpeg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check also the fantastic view of the &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo_explorer#user=1439091&amp;amp;with_photo_id=58912540&amp;amp;order=date_desc"&gt;glaciers from Gornergrat&lt;/a&gt; in Switzerland with this fantastic flat panorama.&lt;br /&gt;You will see a navigation panel on the top left of the photo explorer. Use it to zoom in and out, move around the photo, but do not miss interacting directly with the panorama by panning and zooming directly with your mouse directly on the image. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo_explorer#user=1439091&amp;amp;with_photo_id=58912540&amp;amp;order=date_desc" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="110" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jdi_nyGOoxs/UDJZgKwUFcI/AAAAAAAAAfg/4Sm1SvPrmkk/s400/Flat.jpeg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We worked hard on providing a fast experience for panoramas and high resolution photos. The photo explorer only downloads the portions of the image that are necessary at each moment, so you can start looking at the photo before all the pixels are downloaded. High resolution images are treated in the same way as flat panoramas, and it is for this reason that you will also find the navigation panel in the photo explorer for high-res photos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are cameras and mobile phones that stitch photos automatically creating Panoramas, but in many cases software needs to be used to stitch photos together. A tool that we like a lot is &lt;a href="http://hugin.sourceforge.net/"&gt;Hugin&lt;/a&gt;, a Panorama photo stitcher that is easy and free to use.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is our first iteration of the panorama viewer so we will be happy to hear your thoughts on it in our &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/forum"&gt;Forum&lt;/a&gt;. For more info on panoramas please check our &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/help/adding_photos#panoramas"&gt;help content&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We hope you enjoy finding, viewing and creating panoramas in Panoramio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Posted by &lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/107808257391213832544/posts"&gt;+Gerard Sanz&lt;/a&gt;, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/FN_-cPQAGqo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/7849622764450522191" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/7849622764450522191" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/FN_-cPQAGqo/putting-panorama-in-panoramio.html" title="Putting the Panorama in Panoramio" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o2VqE3M1wzs/UDJZJ1FGMII/AAAAAAAAAfU/4OBj70F62eE/s72-c/Spherical.jpeg" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/08/putting-panorama-in-panoramio.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-8114827321159477983</id><published>2012-07-25T06:58:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-07-25T08:14:58.202-07:00</updated><title type="text">Panoramio Contest of May 2012: Love</title><content type="html">The &lt;strong&gt;First Prize&lt;/strong&gt; is for a photo taken by &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/6782289"&gt;anaturephotographer&lt;/a&gt; in Australia. &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71553320"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/71553320.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Second Prize&lt;/strong&gt;is for a photo taken by &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/2353819"&gt;Shutter&lt;/a&gt; in Kuwait. &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71971718"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/71971718.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honorable Mentions are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71463133"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/71463133.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71502251"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/71502251.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/72406385"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/72406385.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/72871146"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/72871146.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/72572609"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/72572609.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can see all the winners in the &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners/?date=04-2012"&gt;results page for April 2012&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Posted by &lt;a href="http://draft.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttps://plus.google.com/107808257391213832544/posts%E2%80%9D"&gt;+Gerard Sanz&lt;/a&gt;, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/KmNZQEY0RCQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/8114827321159477983" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/8114827321159477983" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/KmNZQEY0RCQ/panoramio-contest-of-may-2012-love.html" title="Panoramio Contest of May 2012: Love" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/07/panoramio-contest-of-may-2012-love.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-1169238477412015640</id><published>2012-07-25T06:55:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-07-25T08:14:58.197-07:00</updated><title type="text">Panoramio Contest of May 2012: Water flow</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white;"&gt;First Prize&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt; is for a photo taken by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/6048192" style="background-color: white;"&gt;OSTAJOSEBA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt; in Spain. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/72348656" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/72348656.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Second Prize&lt;/strong&gt; is for a photo taken by &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/551264"&gt;Ulrich Greger&lt;/a&gt; in the Ireland. &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/72753462"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/72753462.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honorable Mentions are: &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71382097"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/71382097.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71225705"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/71225705.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71596283"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/71596283.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71516830"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/71516830.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71557142"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/71557142.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can see all the winners in the &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners/?date=05-2012"&gt;results page for May 2012&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Posted by &lt;a href="http://draft.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttps://plus.google.com/107808257391213832544/posts%E2%80%9D"&gt;+Gerard Sanz&lt;/a&gt;, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/gQjgx_KLj8w" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/1169238477412015640" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/1169238477412015640" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/gQjgx_KLj8w/panoramio-contest-of-may-2012-water-flow.html" title="Panoramio Contest of May 2012: Water flow" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/07/panoramio-contest-of-may-2012-water-flow.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-4291663592027914075</id><published>2012-07-25T06:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-07-25T08:14:58.200-07:00</updated><title type="text">Panoramio Contest of May 2012: Motion</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white;"&gt;First Prize&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt; is for a photo taken by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/4341114" style="background-color: white;"&gt;Brian Rose&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt; in Australia. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71915475" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/71915475.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Second Prize&lt;/strong&gt;is for a photo taken by &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/2928565"&gt;Mário Eloi Castro&lt;/a&gt; in Portugal. &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/72192460"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/72192460.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honorable Mentions are: &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/72488961"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/72488961.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/72453385"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/72453385.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71731150"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/71731150.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71953536"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/71953536.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/72948866"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/72948866.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can see all the winners in the &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners/?date=05-2012"&gt;results page for May 2012&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Posted by &lt;a href="http://draft.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttps://plus.google.com/107808257391213832544/posts%E2%80%9D"&gt;+Gerard Sanz&lt;/a&gt;, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/JxJKrVWiV4g" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/4291663592027914075" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/4291663592027914075" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/JxJKrVWiV4g/panoramio-contest-of-may-2012-motion.html" title="Panoramio Contest of May 2012: Motion" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/07/panoramio-contest-of-may-2012-motion.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-4111000104652448754</id><published>2012-07-25T06:54:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-07-25T08:14:58.199-07:00</updated><title type="text">Panoramio Contest of May 2012: Sunset &amp; Sunrise</title><content type="html">The &lt;strong&gt;First Prize&lt;/strong&gt; is for a photo taken by &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/1436096"&gt;Rita Eberle-Wessner&lt;/a&gt; in UAE.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71460718" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/71460718.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white;"&gt;Second Prize&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;is for a photo taken by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/2007018" style="background-color: white;"&gt;pezzifabio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt; in Maldives. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71710697" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/71710697.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Honorable Mentions are: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71479452" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/71479452.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71773424" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/71773424.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/72073651" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/72073651.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71701093" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/71701093.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71699192" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/71699192.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;You can see all the winners in the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners/?date=05-2012" style="background-color: white;"&gt;results page for May 2012&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Posted by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://draft.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttps://plus.google.com/107808257391213832544/posts%E2%80%9D" style="background-color: white;"&gt;+Gerard Sanz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/Urr33MOZeCs" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/4111000104652448754" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/4111000104652448754" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/Urr33MOZeCs/panoramio-contest-of-may-2012-sunset.html" title="Panoramio Contest of May 2012: Sunset &amp; Sunrise" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/07/panoramio-contest-of-may-2012-sunset.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-1166481628957050690</id><published>2012-07-16T07:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-07-16T07:37:16.042-07:00</updated><title type="text">Let's play!</title><content type="html">&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.5419588561635464" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The Panoramio team introduced a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://googleplusplatform.blogspot.ch/2012/06/apps-are-plus-in-hangouts.html"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Panoramio Game&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; in Google Hangouts, on June the 27th, as part of Google IO 2012. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Tomorrow, Tuesday July the 17th at 18:00 GMT+1 (Central Europe Time) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/113693735659222102870/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;+Selen Basol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/112474387302204841318/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;+Nikolay Zherebtsov&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/107808257391213832544/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;+I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; &amp;nbsp;will play during 30min from our desks at Google Zurich and we want to invite everyone to join us. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/hangout_game/images/panoramio_hangout_game900x544.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="241" src="https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/hangout_game/images/panoramio_hangout_game900x544.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.5419588561635464" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;The Panoramio Game &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;lets you compete with your friends to find out where a photo was taken while traveling around the world with Google Maps through stunning Panoramio photos. If you are the best, you get to choose your next destination.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;If you want to challenge us, just join our hangout on Wednesday for some fun. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;How to join?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;We will post an invitation in the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/b/104455368165538982690/104455368165538982690/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Panoramio page&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; in G+, 5min before 18:00h &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;GMT+1 (Central Europe Time)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;. Remember that hangouts only allow 10 users in the same session. Do not be late!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Can not join and want to play later?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Check &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/game"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;http://www.panoramio.com/game&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; for the details on the game.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posted by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/107808257391213832544/posts"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;+Gerard Sanz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/vCwYb5g9RdY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/1166481628957050690" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/1166481628957050690" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/vCwYb5g9RdY/lets-play.html" title="Let's play!" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/07/lets-play.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-6852273452392696840</id><published>2012-06-14T07:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-06-14T07:41:06.247-07:00</updated><title type="text">+1</title><content type="html">&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.6913833655416965" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Panoramio is full of amazing photos from the most beautiful places of the world. We have added today the +1 button in our Panoramio photo pages. Every time you click on the +1 button in a Panoramio photo you are adding your personal stamp of approval to that photo. You will find your full list of +1’s in a special tab in your public Google profile.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vBENIMp3NaI/T9n29uVxZII/AAAAAAAAAdg/EUVaLKDoLn0/s1600/Double.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="277" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vBENIMp3NaI/T9n29uVxZII/AAAAAAAAAdg/EUVaLKDoLn0/s400/Double.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;You may as well decide to share your thoughts on a Panoramio photo with your friends, your circles or publicly in Google+. The +1 button allows you to do so. Add a comment, select the audience you want to share it with and off you go. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;We hope you find this addition useful both to expand the audience of your own photos in Panoramio and to share your best findings from the millions of amazing photos from our community.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posted by &lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/107808257391213832544/posts"&gt;+Gerard Sanz&lt;/a&gt;, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/ePf4kMIZClE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/6852273452392696840" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/6852273452392696840" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/ePf4kMIZClE/1.html" title="+1" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vBENIMp3NaI/T9n29uVxZII/AAAAAAAAAdg/EUVaLKDoLn0/s72-c/Double.png" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/06/1.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-4004570483467576822</id><published>2012-06-13T06:50:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-06-13T06:50:52.746-07:00</updated><title type="text">Panoramio Contest of April 2012: Fun</title><content type="html">I am happy to announce the results of the &lt;strong&gt;Fun&lt;/strong&gt; category for the Panoramio contest of &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners/?date=04-2012"&gt;April 2012&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;First Prize&lt;/strong&gt; is for a photo taken by &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/4249288"&gt;Grazyna Anna Kondrac…&lt;/a&gt; in Italy. &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69590315"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69590315.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Second Prize&lt;/strong&gt; is for a photo taken by &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/6493045"&gt;photoseeker&lt;/a&gt; in the UK. &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69674206"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69674206.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honorable Mentions are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69721178"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69721178.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69498164"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69498164.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71188794"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/71188794.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/70730560"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/70730560.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/70880513"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/70880513.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can see all the winners in the &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners/?date=04-2012"&gt;results page for April 2012&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Posted by &lt;a href="http://draft.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttps://plus.google.com/107808257391213832544/posts%E2%80%9D"&gt;+Gerard Sanz&lt;/a&gt;, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/IjrT-Rh-V9U" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/4004570483467576822" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/4004570483467576822" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/IjrT-Rh-V9U/panoramio-contest-of-april-2012-fun.html" title="Panoramio Contest of April 2012: Fun" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/06/panoramio-contest-of-april-2012-fun.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-4260615811616612211</id><published>2012-06-13T06:50:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-06-13T06:50:28.529-07:00</updated><title type="text">Panoramio Contest of April 2012: Vertical</title><content type="html">I am happy to announce the results of the Vertical category for the Panoramio contest of &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners/?date=04-2012"&gt;April 2012&lt;/a&gt;. The &lt;strong&gt;First Prize&lt;/strong&gt; is for a photo taken by &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/6598965"&gt;Albertszki Tamás&lt;/a&gt; in Hungary. &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/70727085"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/70727085.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Second Prize&lt;/strong&gt;is for a photo taken by &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/69524"&gt;Tommaso Ruggieri&lt;/a&gt; in Russia. &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69560794"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69560794.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honorable Mentions are: &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/70381416"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/70381416.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/70327434"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/70327434.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/70020411"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/70020411.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69582192"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69582192.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/70936127"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/70936127.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can see all the winners in the &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners/?date=04-2012"&gt;results page for April 2012&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Posted by &lt;a href="http://draft.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttps://plus.google.com/107808257391213832544/posts%E2%80%9D"&gt;+Gerard Sanz&lt;/a&gt;, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/AiWW1Rr9euc" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/4260615811616612211" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/4260615811616612211" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/AiWW1Rr9euc/panoramio-contest-of-april-2012.html" title="Panoramio Contest of April 2012: Vertical" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/06/panoramio-contest-of-april-2012.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-8232358694619379979</id><published>2012-06-13T06:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-06-14T08:09:42.220-07:00</updated><title type="text">Panoramio Contest of April 2012: Green</title><content type="html">I am happy to announce the results of the Green category for the Panoramio contest of &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners/?date=04-2012"&gt;April 2011&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;First Prize&lt;/strong&gt; is for a photo taken by &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/484787"&gt;trasgo82&lt;/a&gt; in Spain. &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/70518128"&gt;&lt;img alt="Scenery First prize" src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/70518128.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Second Prize&lt;/strong&gt;is for a photo taken by &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/2507000"&gt;SPetzoldt&lt;/a&gt; in Germany. &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69480286"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69480286.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honorable Mentions are: &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69543556"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69543556.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69974245"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69974245.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71076169"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/71076169.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/70642028"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/70642028.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69578087"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69578087.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can see all the winners in the &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners/?date=04-2012"&gt;results page for April 2012&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Posted by &lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/107808257391213832544/posts%E2%80%9D"&gt;+Gerard Sanz&lt;/a&gt;, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/P9uLI7etMFg" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/8232358694619379979" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/8232358694619379979" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/P9uLI7etMFg/panoramio-contest-of-march-2012-green.html" title="Panoramio Contest of April 2012: Green" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/06/panoramio-contest-of-march-2012-green.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-5119997073190056912</id><published>2012-06-13T06:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-06-14T01:47:28.528-07:00</updated><title type="text">Panoramio Contest of April 2012: Natural Frame</title><content type="html">I am happy to announce the results of the Natural Frame category for the Panoramio contest of &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners/?date=04-2012"&gt;April 2012&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;First Prize&lt;/strong&gt; is for a photo taken by &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/5409243"&gt;D.N.Koskinas &lt;/a&gt; in Greece. &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/70807884"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/70807884.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Second Prize&lt;/strong&gt;is for a photo taken by &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/565030"&gt;Patrick de Volpi &lt;/a&gt; in South Africa. &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69925694"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69925694.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honorable Mentions are: &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/70705964"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/70705964.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/70224412"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/70224412.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/70029898"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/70029898.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69774487"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69774487.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69542692"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69542692.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can see all the winners in the &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners/?date=04-2012"&gt;results page for April 2012&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Posted by &lt;a href="http://draft.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttps://plus.google.com/107808257391213832544/posts%E2%80%9D"&gt;+Gerard Sanz&lt;/a&gt;, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/hq7HPKkhZzY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/5119997073190056912" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/5119997073190056912" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/hq7HPKkhZzY/panoramio-contest-of-april-2012-natural.html" title="Panoramio Contest of April 2012: Natural Frame" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/06/panoramio-contest-of-april-2012-natural.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-7089524010416758190</id><published>2012-06-12T04:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-06-12T04:12:35.911-07:00</updated><title type="text">Precise mapping with Google Street View</title><content type="html">Brian McClendon, our VP of Engineering for Google Maps and Google Earth, announced last week in &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMBJ2Hu0NLw"&gt;The Next Dimension of Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; that we have driven over 5 million unique miles in Street View, covering 39 countries and more than 3000 cities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, we are announcing we just made these huge amount of data available in our Panoramio mapping interface to ease the geotagging process of photos for our community. When your photo is mapped close to a place where Street View data is available, you will see in the mapping interface a button called “Precise mapping with Street View”. Click the button to enter Street View mode, or drag and drop &lt;a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/intl/en/help/maps/streetview/learn/pegman.html"&gt;Pegman&lt;/a&gt; to the place you took the image.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-33oFo_qintY/T9cOqRfA4fI/AAAAAAAAAdE/B0coqMCgeaU/s1600/Screen%2Bshot%2B2012-06-12%2Bat%2B11.03.35%2BAM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="321" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-33oFo_qintY/T9cOqRfA4fI/AAAAAAAAAdE/B0coqMCgeaU/s400/Screen%2Bshot%2B2012-06-12%2Bat%2B11.03.35%2BAM.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Street View mode you will see a pin that indicates the photographer position. Drag the pin and drop it to where you stand in the moment you took the photo. &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P2Gjh-kjn84/T9cOdyZ6WSI/AAAAAAAAAc4/q4oKHdRWyHI/s1600/Screen%2Bshot%2B2012-06-12%2Bat%2B11.04.04%2BAM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="322" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P2Gjh-kjn84/T9cOdyZ6WSI/AAAAAAAAAc4/q4oKHdRWyHI/s400/Screen%2Bshot%2B2012-06-12%2Bat%2B11.04.04%2BAM.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you start playing with Street View, when you are in Street View mode, you may lose the photographer’s position pin. Do not worry about that, we have added a button that will bring the pin back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Panoramio Uploader has been one of our biggest priorities this year:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;We have &lt;a href="http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/01/easy-and-fast-new-panoramio-photo.html"&gt;redesigned the photo uploader and the mapping interface from scratch&lt;/a&gt; to provide an easy and fast interface to upload and map both your Panoramio and your Google+ imported photos.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;We later added the possibility to &lt;a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.ch/2012/04/easily-snap-your-photos-to-location-in.html"&gt;annotate the subject of the photo&lt;/a&gt; and the option to differentiate between indoor and outdoor imagery&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Precise mapping with Street View brings us one step forward in our quest to build the perfect photo geotagging interface.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We hope you all enjoy it!&lt;br /&gt;Posted by &lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/107808257391213832544/posts"&gt;+Gerard Sanz&lt;/a&gt;, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/O-SKdo9y08M" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/7089524010416758190" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/7089524010416758190" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/O-SKdo9y08M/precise-mapping-with-google-street-view.html" title="Precise mapping with Google Street View" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-33oFo_qintY/T9cOqRfA4fI/AAAAAAAAAdE/B0coqMCgeaU/s72-c/Screen%2Bshot%2B2012-06-12%2Bat%2B11.03.35%2BAM.png" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/06/precise-mapping-with-google-street-view.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-5991918689830169478</id><published>2012-06-05T06:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-06-05T06:09:05.439-07:00</updated><title type="text">NPC: May 2012 - Mountains</title><content type="html">NPC as Non Prize Contest is the contest that the Panoramio Community organizes every month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The May entry was about &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/forum/view/panoramio-group-__root__?place=topic%2Fpanoramio-games-competitions%2F_0_Awr10DVY%2Fdiscussion"&gt;mountains&lt;/a&gt; and I am publishing the results in this post.&amp;nbsp;Entries for June are opened until the 10th and the topic is &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/forum/view/panoramio-group-__root__?place=topic%2Fpanoramio-games-competitions%2F7ty0f_mA0mU%2Fdiscussion"&gt;boating&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Congratulations to these amazing images: &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71226337"&gt;&lt;img src="http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/71226337.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/26106635"&gt;&lt;img src="http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/26106635.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/32824455"&gt;&lt;img src="http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/32824455.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/23066609"&gt;&lt;img src="http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/23066609.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/61063880"&gt;&lt;img src="http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/61063880.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71337609"&gt;&lt;img src="http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/71337609.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/49500792"&gt;&lt;img src="http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/49500792.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/45201657"&gt;&lt;img src="http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/45201657.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/55193484"&gt;&lt;img src="http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/55193484.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/14748463"&gt;&lt;img src="http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/14748463.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/69408027.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/HcIznjOsVMw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/5991918689830169478" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/5991918689830169478" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/HcIznjOsVMw/npc-may-2012-mountains.html" title="NPC: May 2012 - Mountains" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/06/npc-may-2012-mountains.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-5220648247772055981</id><published>2012-06-05T05:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-06-05T05:37:01.626-07:00</updated><title type="text">Adjusting the focus</title><content type="html">&lt;b id="internal-source-marker_0.8898032528813928" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;We have experimented a lot in Panoramio along &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.panoramio.com/2010/12/happy-2011-panoramio-community.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;2010&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.panoramio.com/2011/12/looking-forward-2012.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;, and thanks to the Panoramio Community we have learned a lot about the geotagging and in general about how a product needs to be shaped to build an amazing community like ours. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;We started a strong 2012 with many new features such as the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/01/easy-and-fast-new-panoramio-photo.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;new uploader&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; and a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/04/explore-panoramios-approach-to-photo.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;new way to explore photos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt; in Panoramio, and we have a long way to go this year with lots of surprises that we are finalizing to make Panoramio the best geotagging community in the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;While innovation is important, it is also important to stay focused, and it is with this aim that we are announcing now that we are removing two features from Panoramio that were used infrequently so we can direct our energies to those features that are used the most and to new features that we are developing at the moment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;In the following days, we will take down the &lt;a href="http://blog.panoramio.com/2009/10/upload-photos-to-panoramio-straight.html"&gt;iPhone uploader&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://blog.panoramio.com/2011/02/geotagging-photos-with-panoramio-and.html"&gt;geotagging with Google Latitude&lt;/a&gt;, and we will keep the experience we gathered while developing those features for future improvements.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"&gt;Posted by Gerard Sanz, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/lrF7W9WqD7M" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/5220648247772055981" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/5220648247772055981" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/lrF7W9WqD7M/adjusting-focus.html" title="Adjusting the focus" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/06/adjusting-focus.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-1110501833579252672</id><published>2012-05-03T18:25:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2012-05-03T18:25:58.724-07:00</updated><title type="text">Panoramio Contest of March 2012: Symmetry</title><content type="html">I am happy to announce the results of the Symmetry category for the Panoramio contest of &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners/?date=03-2012"&gt;March 2012&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;First Prize&lt;/strong&gt; is for a photo taken by &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/771084"&gt;Imre Lakat&lt;/a&gt; in Hungary. &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/68089045"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/68089045.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Second Prize&lt;/strong&gt;is for a photo taken by &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/4719771"&gt;ALLWO&lt;/a&gt; in Germany. &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/68081995"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/68081995.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honorable Mentions are: &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/68660913"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/68660913.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/68109403"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/68109403.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/68046411"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/68046411.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/67796901"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/67796901.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69275900"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69275900.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can see all the winners in the &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners/?date=03-2012"&gt;results page for March 2012&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Posted by &lt;a href="http://draft.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttps://plus.google.com/107808257391213832544/posts%E2%80%9D"&gt;+Gerard Sanz&lt;/a&gt;, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/sNEY84cFHgc" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/1110501833579252672" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/1110501833579252672" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/sNEY84cFHgc/panoramio-contest-of-march-2012_03.html" title="Panoramio Contest of March 2012: Symmetry" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/05/panoramio-contest-of-march-2012_03.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-4970720386648281803</id><published>2012-05-03T18:25:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-05-03T18:25:38.668-07:00</updated><title type="text">Panoramio Contest of March 2012: My Town</title><content type="html">I am happy to announce the results of the &lt;strong&gt;MyTown&lt;/strong&gt; category for the Panoramio contest of &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners/?date=03-2012"&gt;March 2012&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;First Prize&lt;/strong&gt; is for a photo taken by &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/1534530"&gt;Svetlana Peric&lt;/a&gt; in Switzerland. &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/67921643"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/67921643.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Second Prize&lt;/strong&gt; is for a photo taken by &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/119538"&gt;Igor MaKou&lt;/a&gt; in Spain. &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69239039"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69239039.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honorable Mentions are: &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/68329907"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/68329907.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/67845743"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/67845743.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/68778917"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/68778917.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/67767658"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/67767658.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/68191580"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/68191580.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can see all the winners in the &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners/?date=03-2012"&gt;results page for March 2012&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Posted by &lt;a href="http://draft.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttps://plus.google.com/107808257391213832544/posts%E2%80%9D"&gt;+Gerard Sanz&lt;/a&gt;, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/Fs1EU9--b8o" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/4970720386648281803" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/4970720386648281803" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/Fs1EU9--b8o/panoramio-contest-of-march-2012-my-town.html" title="Panoramio Contest of March 2012: My Town" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/05/panoramio-contest-of-march-2012-my-town.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-4488536980521010165</id><published>2012-05-03T18:25:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-05-10T04:09:49.780-07:00</updated><title type="text">Panoramio Contest of March 2012: Night</title><content type="html">I am happy to announce the results of the Colors category for the Panoramio contest of &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners/?date=02-2012"&gt;February 2011&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Second Prize&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;is for a photo taken by &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/5515702"&gt;roa006&lt;/a&gt; in Hungary. &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/68070418"&gt;&lt;img alt="Scenery First prize" src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/68070418.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honorable Mentions are: &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/68560604"&gt;&lt;img alt="Honorable Mention" src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/68560604.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69263247"&gt;&lt;img alt="Honorable Mention" src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69263247.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/68491227"&gt;&lt;img alt="Honorable Mention" src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/68491227.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/67752167"&gt;&lt;img alt="Honorable Mention" src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/67752167.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69139533"&gt;&lt;img alt="Honorable Mention" src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69139533.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can see all the winners in the &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners/?date=03-2012"&gt;results page for March 2012&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Update May 10th: The winner of the 1st Prize deleted his Panoramio account so that is deserted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Posted by &lt;a href="http://draft.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttps://plus.google.com/107808257391213832544/posts%E2%80%9D"&gt;+Gerard Sanz&lt;/a&gt;, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/D9N0zbEEPOE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/4488536980521010165" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/4488536980521010165" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/D9N0zbEEPOE/panoramio-contest-of-march-2012-night.html" title="Panoramio Contest of March 2012: Night" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/05/panoramio-contest-of-march-2012-night.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-269492497785597716</id><published>2012-05-03T18:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-05-03T18:25:17.977-07:00</updated><title type="text">Panoramio Contest of March 2012: Reflections</title><content type="html">I am happy to announce the results of the Reflections category for the Panoramio contest of &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners/?date=03-2012"&gt;March 2012&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;First Prize&lt;/strong&gt; is for a photo taken by &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/2670990"&gt;Vanni Lazzari - VL E…&lt;/a&gt; in Italy. &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/67942221"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/67942221.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Second Prize&lt;/strong&gt;is for a photo taken by &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/1641006"&gt;Geraldine Clark&lt;/a&gt; in the US. &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/67755993"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/67755993.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honorable Mentions are: &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69002692"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69002692.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/68911197"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/68911197.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69295513"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69295513.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/67958906"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/67958906.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/68951085"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/68951085.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can see all the winners in the &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners/?date=03-2012"&gt;results page for March 2012&lt;/a&gt;. Posted by &lt;a href="http://draft.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttps://plus.google.com/107808257391213832544/posts%E2%80%9D"&gt;+Gerard Sanz&lt;/a&gt;, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/vFX7cQGFLBk" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/269492497785597716" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/269492497785597716" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/vFX7cQGFLBk/panoramio-contest-of-march-2012.html" title="Panoramio Contest of March 2012: Reflections" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/05/panoramio-contest-of-march-2012.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-1356897150829948966</id><published>2012-05-03T15:33:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-05-03T15:33:54.099-07:00</updated><title type="text">NPC April 2012: Spring Colors</title><content type="html">The Panoramio Community has already published the results of the April Contest: &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/forum/view/panoramio-group-__root__?place=msg%2Fpanoramio-games-competitions%2FtoDAGkvNa-s%2FNBNu0sYClDsJ"&gt;Spring Colors&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;You can now participate in the &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/forum/view/panoramio-group-__root__?place=topic%2Fpanoramio-games-competitions%2F_0_Awr10DVY%2Fdiscussion"&gt;Mountain Landscapes&lt;/a&gt; competition that they are running for May. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The results from the Sping Colors are just amazing and as always they are sponsored in the &lt;a href="http://panoramio.com/?no_redirect"&gt;Panoramio Landing page&lt;/a&gt; and here in the blog:&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/68364131"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/68364131.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69868909"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69868909.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/25374089"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/25374089.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/26673291"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/26673291.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/41756983"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/41756983.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69452989"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69452989.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/52471369"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/52471369.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/69862993"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/medium/69862993.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Posted by &lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/107808257391213832544/about"&gt;+Gerard Sanz&lt;/a&gt;, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/Ojj4M2M-b0I" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/1356897150829948966" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/1356897150829948966" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/Ojj4M2M-b0I/npc-april-2012-spring-colors.html" title="NPC April 2012: Spring Colors" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/05/npc-april-2012-spring-colors.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3939987801107087044.post-8466928107586422570</id><published>2012-05-01T04:36:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-05-01T04:36:30.474-07:00</updated><title type="text">Panoramio Contest Updated</title><content type="html">Each month Panoramio hosts a contest for the members of our photo community. The aim of the contest is to have fun with the proposed categories and to get a challenge in your photo excursions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The contest had historically 4 categories, and starting this year we changed the process to offer new categories each month. We have also made some changes in the Site, like the new &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/?no_redirect"&gt;Landing page&lt;/a&gt;, that allow us to sponsor the best photos of the contest directly in Panoramio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This month we have changed the prizes so the contest is even more attractive. The contest will have 5 runner-up that will have their photos sponsored in the landing page, and a first and a second prize that can win (&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/help/contest"&gt;conditions apply&lt;/a&gt;) the following prizes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;First Prize&lt;/b&gt;: &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.sony.co.uk/product/dsb-nex-7/nex-7k"&gt;Sony NEX-7 Interchangeable lens digital camera&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sony.co.uk/product/dsb-nex-7/nex-7k" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.panoramio.com/img/contest_1st_prize.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Second Prize&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;a href="http://panasonic.net/avc/lumix/compact/ts3_ft3/index.html"&gt;Lumix TS3/FT3 waterproof digital camera&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://panasonic.net/avc/lumix/compact/ts3_ft3/index.html" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.panoramio.com/img/contest_2nd_prize.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;We have also done a couple of changes in the &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners"&gt;Contest Winners page&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;so the best photos from the contest are very nicely displayed!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/winners" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="188" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-py2vYjL2DHQ/T5_JWEJI09I/AAAAAAAAAcc/iaYn5j-Nibk/s400/Screen+shot+2012-05-01+at+1.30.08+PM.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/contest"&gt;this month's categories&lt;/a&gt; and try your best. You may also want to join the community to decide which photo gets more votes. In that case, visit the &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/contest?random"&gt;voting page&lt;/a&gt; and choose the ones you like the most.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Posted by &lt;a href="https://plus.google.com/107808257391213832544/posts"&gt;+Gerard Sanz&lt;/a&gt;, Panoramio Community Manager&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~4/w5C9uGBn-V0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/8466928107586422570" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3939987801107087044/posts/default/8466928107586422570" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/panoramio/Riqg/~3/w5C9uGBn-V0/panoramio-contest-updated.html" title="Panoramio Contest Updated" /><author><name>gerardsanz</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11838330519432960997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-py2vYjL2DHQ/T5_JWEJI09I/AAAAAAAAAcc/iaYn5j-Nibk/s72-c/Screen+shot+2012-05-01+at+1.30.08+PM.png" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.panoramio.com/2012/05/panoramio-contest-updated.html</feedburner:origLink></entry></feed>