 Email Uploads You can now upload jpeg panoramas to 360Cities simply using email. This complements the current web upload and ftp upload options. The email upload option is the best and the most convenient choice for uploading from mobile and tablet devices. Panoramas are automatically published! Learn More  We are thrilled to announce that after months of preparation and close cooperation with Nokia, 360Cities is now live on Nokia Symbian devices in 81 countries. This opens a new distribution channel to all 360Cities photographers, whose panoramas will be seen by millions of Nokia device users. Learn More Recent additions
  When you now search for somebody's name on 360Cities, we will show a link to their profile page as the first result, followed by panoramas by that photographer.
 When you first visit 360Cities we select the default language for you based on your browser/OS settings. Up until now it was cumbersome to switch to a different language. Now you can switch to a new language using the language bar.  Our homepage now includes new bubbles that will point you to pages and panoramas of interest, including Editors' Picks, various gigapixel panoramas, an underwater virtual tour, 360Cities' World Map and the Recent Activity page.
 Retrieve your original uploaded panoramas in case you lose them. We keep secure backups for all accounts, but are only able to restore files for PRO accounts due to the cost in time necessary needed to retrieve the files. Learn more on the blog Learn how to retrieve your files 
Advanced Search and Newest FirstOur Advanced Search now allows you to search for a phrase, search for tags, panos made by a specific author or any combination of those. The newest panoramas are now displayed first in the search. Your newest uploads will also get more attention this way! Learn more on the blog  Get Hired for Photography Jobs
360Cities lists all photographers that are available for hire on the Find a Photographer page. Here you can easily find the photographers available for hire by country they are based in.
 We understand that for our PRO members, every little thing helps to make a good impression. When you showcase your work to an important customer, when you're closing a sale, or when you simply want to impress people with your work, you want their full, undivided attention on your images. So that's why we've decided to give our PRO account holders a choice: turn off all ads on your image and profile pages, or leave the ads and keep the revenue for yourself. It's up to you. Learn more  We have added PRO account badges to all names of PRO and COMPANY members on the site. Now you can show a proof that you are a professional photographer on 360Cities! The badge looks like this:
  We have now made sure the title of a panorama, the area in which it is published and author credits are clearly visible on all panorama pages. The new title window also includes icons for easy sharing. Learn more about panorama pages or Read blog post
 Check out the number of views for each panorama
No need to hide it! We now have the number of views on all panorama pages displayed publicly in the lower right-hand corner. This allows everybody to see how many times each image has been viewed. Learn more
Get top priority review for Google Earth
Our priority review queue available to all paid accounts guarantees that we'll review all your images within 7 days. This gets your panoramas published on 360cities.net and Google Earth as soon as possible. PRO images have highest priority, then PLUS, then FREE. Learn more Publish non-spherical and lower quality panoramas
Now you can publish any panorama on 360Cities. Do you have a low quality panorama that is precious to you? Do you have a partial panorama? Or a non-spherical pano? Such panos won't be publicly promoted on 360Cities after our review, but they will be shown in your profile and you can share them. Available to all paid accounts, free accounts can publish 4 such panoramas. Learn more
Unlist your panoramas Are you shy? Mark your image as unlisted and it will not show publicly on our site - not even in your profile. You can still share the URL with others. This is a great way to upload a panorama on 360Cities that you want to keep private. Available to all paid accounts. Learn more
View your portfolio Switch any pano of yours to Portfolio Viewing mode and only your panoramas will be visible as arrows to nearby panoramas in panorama pages. Share this view with others! Available to all paid accounts. PLUS account The new PLUS account allows you to do many new things with 360Cities! These new features have automatically been added to PRO accounts as well. Unlist your panoramas, publish non-spherical images, get your images reviewed faster and view your portfolio in a new way. Learn more
You can view all panoramas published on 360cities.net on the iPad and iPhone. Android devices work as well. There is no special app to be downloaded, just point your internet browser in your device to a panorama page to see the panorama. Learn more 360Cities is now a part of the default layer in Google Earth Big news. We are in the new "photos" layer in Google Earth. We are the little red squares. And the best news is that the photo layer is switched "on" by default in Google Earth! Learn more about 360Cities in Google Earth or See the blog post. 360Cities now available from Wikipedia 360cities can now be reached in 2 mouse clicks from ALL pages on wikipedia which have geo coordinates. For example, if you go to this page you'll see some geo coordinates on the top right of the page. Click on that. Then scroll down to the "photos" section. There is a link to our map page, at the same geo coordinates. This is another good sign that 360cities is becoming a good global resource that is useful to the general public. Faster panorama loading and server upgrade We have changed a few small things in the way that panos load and did a major upgrade of the server infrastructure. Our pages now load a number of times faster even during traffic spikes. Enjoy! Publish panoramas intended to promote a business PRO members can publish "business" panoramas, i.e. images that clearly promote a business. This is very useful for promoting your customers' sites: hotels, restaurants, cafes, bars, shops, etc. Learn more Build awesome virtual tours, with multiple panoramas, hotspots and floor plans Publish awesome HD virtual tours on the 360Cities hosting layer, send a public link to the tour to anyone and invite them for a virtual walk-through. For a fee, you can your these tours into websites. Learn more PRO Accounts: Company name in your account name You work as a PRO, now you can name yourself as a PRO on your 360Cities pages for everyone to see. Learn more Presenting PRO Accounts After weeks of development we have launched 360Cities PRO accounts! PRO accounts holders can build virtual tours, have a company name in their account name and publish panoramas intended to promote a business. Read all about it here: http://www.360cities.net/pro See what's happening on 360Cities via the recent activity page
The new 360Cities "Recent Activity" page contains REAL TIME updates on what's going on at 360Cities: new panos published, new members, new areas, new embeds, and so on. It's a fun new way to check out what's going on. See recent activity
Show yourself on a new author profile page
We've relaunched the profile page to show more nicely your recent and features panoramas, your bio and of course your profile photo! :) Example profile
Sell prints and downloads of your panoramas via 360Cities
We have a new "buy print / license" panorama age - example here. If you want to sell your prints or license your photos via 360Cities and to manage your settings, go here. Learn more
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