Panoramio is a great product, a very cleanly designed google maps implementation of geolocated photos.

Congratulations, guys!

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Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo was in Madrid this week for the ExpoManagement conference, and mentioned us in his speech. Here’s the relevant excerpt:

…There’s an interesting example of this right here in Spain. It’s a real estate service, based in Barcelona, that’s called “Properazzi”. Say you are interested in buying a new home. You know the general location, and the approximate size and price range of the house you would like to buy. And, like most of us, you own a mobile phone. This service provides an Internet-based search engine that can quickly help you find the property you’re looking for.

There also is a start-up called “Widsets,” which it just so happens was created by Nokia. It’s an Internet service that allows people to create and direct personalized feeds of web content right into their mobile device. So you now can create your customized search, connecting you to the most up-to-date information on the continent’s largest database of property listings, and receive it directly into your mobile device, wherever you are. You never have to open an Internet browser, and you never have to turn on your desktop PC…

This is related to the interesting work we’ve been doing with Widsets, a Nokia spinoff that has a really innovative platform for mobile widgets.

Yesterday Properazzi came in 3rd out of a pool of 250 companies in a competition to find innovative European web2.0 startups. The final was held in Bilbao; although it was raining, we were inside the fabulous Guggenheim museum for the presentations.

It was a fun trip, and congrats to the 1st and 2nd place teams from Sclipo and 5min. They’re both video sites focused on skills, but have very different products and target markets.

All three winners come from cities on the beach with great food and climate (2x Barcelona and Tel Aviv); was the jury making a statement favoring a kind of lifestyle?

A few interesting items you might have missed:

• China’s boomtowns – Straight out of a Jane Jacobs book…fascinating. (via jason kottke)
• Online clothing sales overtake computer sales for first time – geeks in retreat!
• Jonas Birgersson is getting a *10 Gig* Internet connection to his house – can I move in, dude?