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Google/Picasa Launch Web Albums

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published June 14, 2006

Well they gone and done it, Google has launched Picasa Web Albums

Picasa Web Albums is Picasa’s newest feature, designed to help users post and share their photos quickly and easily on the web.

This has just launched in beta as well as a new Picasa download, both are invite-only. The two integrate allowing you to upload from Picasa straight into your web album or download them back down to your computer.

Unlike Flickr which has monthly upload restrictions, Picasa Web Albums are restricted by total volume. You can purchase additional space at $25 a year. My initial thought on this is I prefer a monthly upload restriction ala Flickr – my pics are usually big, I upload full quality images and tend to fill 1gb cards at an alarming rate while on a trip or vacation.

Nothing has been said so far about any community aspects, one of Flickrs key success factors I believe.

More info when my invitation comes through!

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Google to Attack Flickr With Picasa?

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published June 8, 2006

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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