Philipp Lenssen, long-time Google watcher, reports some interesting goings-on over at Picasa …
Google Picasa Web Albums Coming?
Picasa is Google’s desktop photo management software – something like Yahoo’s Flickr, except it’s not on the web. However, online photo management is a big pie of “making the world’s information accessible”… and consequently, a new product appeared linked from the Picasa homepage, as Hermon points out in the forum: Picasa Web Albums. The link points to picasaweb.google.com, a page which at this moment doesn’t exist. Can we expect a Google Flickr?
Update: The link from the Picasa homepage has disappeared now.
I don’t know what to make of it really. Picasa is good, I use it 3/4 of the time for my photography workflow, and I have always wanted better integration between it and Flickr. Would I switch from Flickr to a Google/Picasa branded service? Right now I think unlikely but stranger things have happened …
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Google to Attack Flickr With Picasa?
Philipp Lenssen, long-time Google watcher, reports some interesting goings-on over at Picasa …
Google Picasa Web Albums Coming?
I don’t know what to make of it really. Picasa is good, I use it 3/4 of the time for my photography workflow, and I have always wanted better integration between it and Flickr. Would I switch from Flickr to a Google/Picasa branded service? Right now I think unlikely but stranger things have happened …
Technorati Tags: google, flickr, news