Photo sharing sites: Panoramio
Panoramio is a website dedicated to displaying the photographs of places and landscapes that the users create. The images that meet certain requirements can be viewed through Google Earth software. The purpose of Panoramio allows users of this program to learn more about a specific area by looking at the pictures that others have taken there.
Panoramio was launched on October 3, 2005 by Joaquín Cuenca Abela and Eduardo Manchon Aguilar, Cox and Callosa de Segura (Spain) respectively. In March 2007, uploads had risen to more than one million. Three months later, on June 27, the number of images grew to two million. In late October of that year, the photographs amounted to five million.
On May 30, 2007, Google announced plans to acquire Panoramio. The negotiations ended in July of that year when Panoramio accepted the offer from Google.
Characteristics
Users must be registered on Panoramio to exhibit their photographs. When registering, each user is assigned an identification number, which allows your "username" to be modified without restriction.
Each account created by the user has 2 gigabytes of storage for your images at any resolution, provided it does not exceed 25 megabytes each. The amount of photos that the user can upload has no daily limit.
The photos are automatically resized for easy viewing, with the option of downloading the image in its original resolution. By default, the copyright of the photos belong to the user, but it may grant other users modification and commercial use rights by changing the configuration of image copyright.
The images on Panoramio can receive comments from registered users. The offensive, improper or inappropriate posts may be removed from the photos, ie, each user can delete their own comments on your photos and photos of other users. However, if a user decides to make an offensive comment on the picture of a third party, the affected user can do nothing but protest to the third party-the owner of the photo to remove that comment that violates or offends.
In fact, what happens is that the abusers confuse the dialog box that exists beneath each photo, or a chat room or forum with some of its possibilities (web forums, message boards, discussion boards (electronic) discussion groups, discussion forums, bulletin boards). I
In each photograph there is a button or link for users to report if you think an image is offensive or inappropriate, which is then reviewed by the site administrators. There is, however, a similar button to report comments that are abusive, offensive or inappropriate.
