news about G+ photos, hangouts ?

[hvbemmel]

With thanks to Tucky who had a German link in the German forum I found:

• Google exec hints at Photos, Hangouts and G+ split
• Sundar Pichai hints about the future of Google+, Hangouts and Photos

[Pierre M.]

G+, photos, hangouts and.....Panoramio/view ?

Pierre

[Tucky8]

I have posted also the original links of the interview by Forbes with Sundar Pichai,
look here in this thread in the English Forum:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/panoramio-questions-support/TCkDLuV0iEA/SFfw8E-nSLgJ

[Draken]

I wonder if Sundar Pichai knows about the existence of Panoramio. It would be great if he understood Panoramio is a platform he can develop and improve instead of throwing the baby out with the bath water.

[Tucky8]

On Friday, February 27, 2015 at 9:49:19 PM UTC+1, Draken wrote:

I wonder if Sundar Pichai knows about the existence of Panoramio. It would be great if he understood Panoramio is a platform he can develop and improve instead of throwing the baby out with the bath water.

 
Sundar Pichai was previously responsible for the Chrome browser, the Chrome OS and Android OS and associated apps and the app store. Therefore, he probably will not know the field of GEO and photo.

If he was not speaking in the interview about Panoramio (or did he?), then he does not know the real meaning of Panoramio, and that is bad for Panoramio!

When the lower management the existence and importance of Panoramio denies as usual, then Sundar Pichai will never hear from Panoramio, and that is also bad for Panoramio!

Without a major advocate in the Google management the future of Panoramio looks very bad. Or has someone a different opinion?

[Pierre M.]

Hello !
and what about telling him ?? (https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SundarPichai/posts) ; if lot of people say : "hehooo, we are here" ; perhaps he will see us ?

Pierre

[Draken]

I wonder if an English native speaker could write a short, precise message, which we could all copy & paste on Sundar Pichai account, putting forward how interested we are in keeping this photo site as it has always been and even improve it!!

[Daniela Brocca]

All?

Il giorno sabato 28 febbraio 2015 22:17:54 UTC+1, Draken ha scritto:

I wonder if an English native speaker could write a short, precise message, which we could all copy & paste on Sundar Pichai account, putting forward how interested we are in keeping this photo site as it has always been and even improve it!!

 

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[Lady GooGoo La La]

Google looks set to split Photos from Google+
Tidbits

http://www.techradar.com/us/news/internet/web/google-looks-set-to-split-photos-from-google--1286608

[hvbemmel]

This is confirmed. Horowitz has taken over photos and streams:

https://plus.google.com/+BradleyHorowitz/posts/TCABnE5Jkwh:

 

Just wanted to confirm that the rumors are true -- I’m excited to be running Google’s Photos and Streams products!  It’s important to me that these changes are properly understood to be positive improvements to both our products andhow they reach users.

[Hans Sterkendries]

245 reactions and not one to remind him of Panoramio :-(

Op maandag 2 maart 2015 14:11:35 UTC+1 schreef hvbemmel:

[Tucky8]

On Monday, March 2, 2015 at 7:38:56 PM UTC+1, Hans Sterkendries wrote:

245 reactions and not one to remind him of Panoramio :-(

Many of the Panoramio users have a Google+ account, but they do not see the unique opportunity to come into contact with Bradley Horowitz, and him so point to the sad fate of Panoramio.

Bradley Horowitz is even one of the Google managers, who responds on comments from users, as I have seen in his Google+ account.

Probably, the Panoramio users want to die silently. Only so is the silence to be understood.

Bradley Horowitz would certainly understand the Panoramio users.
Look in his Google+ profile what he has done in the past:
https://plus.google.com/+BradleyHorowitz/about

… Before joining Google, I founded and led Yahoo's advanced development division, which developed new products such as Yahoo! Pipes,
and I drove the acquisition of products such as Flickr and  …

Bradley Horowitz is very interested in photography, video and graphics, see his resume in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Horowitz

[Draken]

I have just posted a question regarding Panoramio's future on Mr. Horowitz's Google+ account.

Anyone to follow me?

[hvbemmel]

left this massage on his account

There are over 4 million users of the awesome Google photo website Panoramio, that have been cut off from any communication with Google since September last year. As one of the forum moderators I still cannot answer the users anything else as "Google is not on speaking terms with it´s users any more". I would highly appreciate it if you as photo "boss" could shed some light over this in the Panoramio forum. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/panoramio-questions-support 

for what it´s worth, there was a cc by a G+ user to one of the Maps managers  ( https://plus.google.com/+AbbyDeBellis/posts )

[Lady GooGoo La La]

As usual, well said Herman! ;-)

Lady GooGoo LaLa

[hvbemmel]

Oops, wrong thread Hans? :-)

On Wednesday, 4 March 2015 12:34:56 UTC+1, Hans Sterkendries wrote:

+1 Herman

And I don't think it's completely off topic. This tread went off topic with Views being brought into it but it is a legitimate question where the viewcount of Views comes from. If it's mostly GM, how come the viewcount is significant higher than when Panoramio delivered the pictures to GM???

And I'm sorry, John, but I have to repeat what I've already said: so far the high(er) viewcount is the only argument Google has in promoting Views but the site itself is inferior to Panoramio in numerous areas. And despite all the promises I have little hope this will improve.

Op dinsdag 3 maart 2015 06:50:01 UTC+1 schreef hvbemmel:

[Hans Sterkendries]

Yes, indeed! Strange. I was sure I was writing in the correct tread... Sorry

Op woensdag 4 maart 2015 13:07:38 UTC+1 schreef hvbemmel: