As you know, sending unsolicited emails is something we’re not in the habit of doing, but in this case, we thought the news was big enough to justify it.
Panoramio is going to be acquired by Google!

The deal is set to close in about two weeks. We’re excited and we hope you are too! The acquisition will be an overwhelmingly good thing for Panoramio uploaders and viewers alike. Uploaders will get to leverage Google’s reach, increasing the exposure of their photographs to photophiles around the world. Viewers will get to choose from a larger universe of photographs as Panoramio becomes more widely known.

We understand you may have questions, so we’ve set up a Q&A to help. Go to Q&A to learn more.

We owe our dedicated users a debt of gratitude for making Panoramio the success that it is. Thank you! And stay tuned; we intend to repay that debt by bringing making Panoramio bigger and better than ever.

Sincerely,

Panoramio Team
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We promised in our Terms of Use that you’d be given a chance to opt-out of the transfer of your personal information to a company that acquired us. If you take no action, the rights to your data will transfer, unmodified, from Panoramio to Google upon close of the acquisition. Choosing to opt out will terminate your user agreement with Panoramio, trigger the removal of your photos from the Panoramio database, and prevent the transfer of data rights to Google. For more information about Google’s privacy practices, click here. If you’d like to opt out, click here.

eBay buying a website that deals with sharing online content sounds weird, at least the other deals had the big companies buying things that are relevant to them.

I’ve been using last.fm since the days when it was still called audioscrobbler. Its a pretty good site, I’ve discovered many new artists and, surprise surprise, I actually bought a few CDs! Who would believe that a casual pirate would actually buy music from time to time?

Fuck that, I just use it to give me a random humour/music/geektech/porn site when I’m bored.

I don’t think the interaction part ever took off, especially when they introduced charging people for extra features.

But $280 million? Shit! Makes me wanna take up C++ and come up with some stuff of my own!

Have a great day.