uScheduled maintenance (April 27, 2006)

We will upgrade the Pixagogo servers tomorrow Thursday April 27, 2006 between 12.00 and 14.00 hrs UTC (check your timezone here). 

During this time-frame, accessibility of the Pixagogo website will not be consistent and Pixagogo.com and the international sites will be offline during this upgrade.

Thank you for your patience.

Telenet acquires Pixagogo

It's official... Telenet has acquired Pixagogo. Telenet is the largest provider of broadband cable services in Belgium, its business comprises the provision of basic and premium cable television, high speed internet and telephony services, primarily to residential customers in Flanders.

With the takeover of Photoblog and Pixagogo, Telenet initially plans to improve its portal site, breedband.telenet.be.

This acquisition will allow Pixagogo to reach a larger audience and we hope to improve the Pixagogo service and add new features such as video sharing in the very near future.

You can read the Telenet Press release on the Telenet website.

Photo Maps integrated in Photo Sharing service

After test driving the Photo Maps service, we've integrated our geotagging service in the standard Pixagogo offering: on the album lay-out page you can select your photos and add geo coordinates to your photos.

It's really simple to create a Photo Map:

1. Select an album
2. Go to the album lay-out page of that album
3. Select the photos you want to geo label
4. Add geo coordinates (you can find them by clicking on the "find on map" button, browse to the location and hit the "use coordinates" button)
5. Click on the "view Photo map link".

A small globe will appear under the photos that you've labeled with geo coordinates.

You can turn every Pixagogo photo album in to a Photo Map: you just have to add "maps/" to the album link:

This (http://www.pixagogo.com/2110365858) is a Photo Album of a "Paris Shopping trip".  You want to see a few photos on a photo map of Paris?  Go to this Photo Map (or to this link http://www.pixagogo.com/maps/2110365858).

Click on one of the photos to browse the geo labeled photos on the map.

Pixagogo and Photoblog join forces

Pixagogo has acquired Photoblog.net. Photoblog.net is a Photo weblog service that allows you to post photos and let others comment your work.

Photoblog.net is also a neat community tool: you can link to your friend's photo blogs and you can add your skype id, plazes information and many other tools to you profile page.

We are excited to add some of the Photoblog features to the Pixagogo service in the very near future and we welcome the Photoblog users to the Pixagogo community.

Free Photoblog starter accounts are available here.

Google Earth Feed

We've added a Google Earth feed (KML) on the label gallery.

With this label feed, Google Earth users can view the photos of that particular label in Google Earth.

Once you've downloaded and installed the Google Earth application, you only have to click on the little Google Earth button and... Google Earth will start-up and it will zoom in on the photos.

Do you have Google Earth (download)?  Click on the above button and fly to Rome. 

Coming soon... KML feeds on every Photo Map.

Label Photo Maps

If you want to show a Photo Map on your website but you do not have photos or if you want to display photos from your friends or visitors, you should try out the new Label Map.

Pixagogo Photo Maps automatically displays a map (and its html code!) for every label in the label gallery.

So if you have a website or blog on San Francisco, you can easily show this Label Map on your website:

Pixagogo Photo Maps

All photos labeled "San Francisco" will automatically show on your website's Photo Map.

Dutch manual

Pierre Gorissen wrote a very nice "how to"  Pixagogo Photo Map manual (dutch).

We can recommend his very detailed manual to all our dutch speaking visitors.

Look at some photos Pierre shot this summer:

Pixagogo Photo Maps

Service Update

We upgraded our RSS feeds to full fledged PhotoFeeds!

A PhotoFeed is a RSS 2.0 feed with image enclosures. A photofeed provides a standard and easy way to reference a list of images with a title, a date and a description. It can be used as the input of any program/service that works with images.   In addition, we've added the latitude and longitude for every photo.

If you wonder how to use PhotoFeeds...

Photo Maps in the blogosphere...

Pixagogo is getting some traction in the blogosphere!

It started with a post on Google Maps Mania.  You can read the review of Photo Maps here.

Quickly others followed... even in Spanish and Japanese.

Here we go!

Pixagogo Photo Maps is beta released today!  A new free service that allows you share or post your photos on a Google Map.  You do not need a Pixagogo subscription to create a Photo Map... but having a Pixagogo account makes it possible to upload an unlimited number of photos and to create private Photo Maps.

And here is the first Photo Map ever: 

Pixagogo Photo Maps

Thank you TBoneTaxi for your  great photos of San Francisco!