So I began writing this blog on Blogger... and in the end it seems to belong to Google. I'm posting my street photos on Panoramio, and then Google buys Panoramio.
Them being wed in this manner, I'm wedding them on this blog too. Looking at my Panoramio stats, I noticed one of the less prominent pics having a inexplicably high number of views. It's not in a specially known place, not a landmark of any kind, just an ordinary house.
Looking at individual stats for that house, I found a few places that link to it. And one of them is coming from homes.com, where they have included the google maps with the street view and the panoramic view from that certain spot, which is basically a flash page with pics from Panoramio taken by us, ordinary members.
Panoramio says we, members, have the copyright. So, I should be able to make money out of this, right?
Wrong - I don't need any money from homes.com. I want to have nothing with them. Real estate middlemen rank very low in my book, maybe just a notch above telemarketers, advertisers, pharma, pornographers, Hollywood, pimps and insurance. Banks are at the bottom.
Is there a way out of this? I can't imagine Google creating a special provision for selective refusal by copyright owners (us, members) to forbid certain customers of Google services use of their images. I guess my choice is just to pretend I'm ignorant of this and enjoy the view count. Or I could delete such images that I found linked by them. Or try to be completely absent, just like in Milošević's times, when you didn't want to be near any event his goons organized, because if his TV Bastille's cameras caught you, you may be seen on his news along with his gang. And then you'd have to wash your biography of them.
Well, here it is. I have nothing to do with any real estate agency of any kind. The cheapskates could have hired a real photographer and paid her honestly, instead of using amateurs' work for free. Well, they pay Google, but then Google doesn't pay us at all.
Thugs, like I said.
Them being wed in this manner, I'm wedding them on this blog too. Looking at my Panoramio stats, I noticed one of the less prominent pics having a inexplicably high number of views. It's not in a specially known place, not a landmark of any kind, just an ordinary house.
Panoramio says we, members, have the copyright. So, I should be able to make money out of this, right?
Wrong - I don't need any money from homes.com. I want to have nothing with them. Real estate middlemen rank very low in my book, maybe just a notch above telemarketers, advertisers, pharma, pornographers, Hollywood, pimps and insurance. Banks are at the bottom.
Is there a way out of this? I can't imagine Google creating a special provision for selective refusal by copyright owners (us, members) to forbid certain customers of Google services use of their images. I guess my choice is just to pretend I'm ignorant of this and enjoy the view count. Or I could delete such images that I found linked by them. Or try to be completely absent, just like in Milošević's times, when you didn't want to be near any event his goons organized, because if his TV Bastille's cameras caught you, you may be seen on his news along with his gang. And then you'd have to wash your biography of them.
Well, here it is. I have nothing to do with any real estate agency of any kind. The cheapskates could have hired a real photographer and paid her honestly, instead of using amateurs' work for free. Well, they pay Google, but then Google doesn't pay us at all.
Thugs, like I said.
9 back and forths:
Now oyu can do the right thing: delete that pic from your portfolio and/or repost it under the other tag credentials; but the most important part being the fact URL will change, those gons will have a hole on their page.
I'd lose the 3000+ views from my stats, but then why not. It's a small price to pay.
OTOH, this is an uphill battle - I found this one. Among my 400+ pictures, there may be others linked like this. I guess that's the price of fame. So far, I had about 350000 views - without Panoramio being a horse in Google's stable, I'd never have that much. But then, when I signed up for Panoramio, I probably gave them the rights to "make contents available to third parties", and now we've found what that means.
I am a Mom living in Citrus Springs
Florida,USA and have a 35 year old
son with a degree in MIS ...he
has work experience as a Database
Manager and not able to find a
good position without a step down
here in US. Are the tech jobs
better in Serbia? He doesn't speak
the language. Thx
What can I say... check the unemployment rates in Serbia, they are far worse than in US. And even if he manages to find a position at his level, the average salary here is about $6000 a year. As an IT guru he may make two or three times that, which may be enough to make a decent living here, although the cost of living isn't 10% of that in the US; it's closer to about 80%.
Language shouldn't be too much of a problem; it's hard to learn, specially if it would be only second after English, but then any IT team would have plenty of English-speaking staff.
Maybe a good place to start would be to start posting (in English) at elitesecurity.org, which is generally the Serbian IT forum (although I am not visiting it, just judging by number of links to it that I encounter). The folks there would know better than I do.
Thanks DR for suggestions...I
looked at elitesecurity and all
posts are in Serbian, and no
English language button choice...
by cost of living what is the
most expensive? housing?
utilities...in your previous
post, it sounds like food is cheaper than here...
I can only point you to the English side of my website, Serbia for dummies, where you may begin to understand the basics about the country.
Food is cheaper, beer is a lot cheaper, housing... if you intend to keep the US sizes (re number of bedrooms/bathrooms), then it can be more expensive. OTOH, if you don't mind some commute, it can be a lot cheaper.
Just start posting in English in any forum there, and someone will help you.
I checked it out...looks great...
thank you very much you have been
very helpful.
DR: I couldn't find a link to
a forum on the page Serbia for
Dummies...did I miss it ?
http://ndragan.com/szajte/index.html
It's just a branch of my website, and a recently new one at that. Not as elaborate as the symmetric branch (in Serbian, about life in the US)
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