Eduardo Manchon
From Chile
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Bio
Eduardo Manchon is co-founder of Panoramio.com, the community of geolocated photos that was acquired by Google in 2007. Nowadays Eduardo keeps running Panoramio from the Google offices in Zurich.
Eduardo launched Panoramio together with his friend Joaquín Cuenca in October 2005 working in their spare time and without any investment. Panoramio became quickly popular and a useful tool to explore the world. Photos from Panoramio are also available in Google Earth and Google Maps. Panoramio has been the first Spanish start-up sold to Google.
Born and raised in Callosa de Segura (Alicante, Spain), Eduardo studied Psychology in Valencia (Spain) and Bergen (Norway). Eduardo has a background in Psychology and Human Computer Interaction. Before Panoramio he worked in the Usability field for 7 years, first in online banking and later as independent consultant.
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Talks
The rise of the Geoweb
SHIFT 2008
Eduardo Manchon
available here
SHiFT - Social and Human Ideas For Technology
15 to 17 October 2008

