Picasa Web Albums
Google has released a new Picasa feature on a first-come, first-serve basis: Picasa Web Albums. With Picasa Web Albums, you can have one-click access to upload photos to the web by using Picasa’s new "Web Album" button. The albums offer enough free storage space to post and share about 1000 photos (250 MB), with the option to upgrade to more space. (The rate will be $25/year for 6 more gigs of storage.) Unlike flickr, that 250 MB is a storage space limit, not a bandwidth limit on uploads (flickr’s free account limits you to 20 MB bandwidth limit per month), so flickr wins for me there. On the other hand, a free account at flickr only displays the 200 most recent photos uploaded…although older ones aren’t deleted, they don’t display in your list of photos unless you upgrade to a pay account. Picasa Web Albums’ user interface claims to offer quick scrolling using arrow keys, and will mimic a desktop experience of "flipping" through photos. (That’s a desktop experience? More like a real life experience…) Also, with Picasa Web Albums, you can easily share your photos via email; you can email a link to your photos, albums, or gallery just by clicking the "share" button. Sign up for an invite to Picasa Web Albums today! It sounds like it’s worth checking out.
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I signed up for an invite because im intrigued by googles idea here…but im a flickr fan so might stick with them unless this is great of course…
Was Googling the web for Picasa web album I came across your blog. I wanted to see what other people have done with their Picasa sites. The major difference between this and other photo sharing sites such as Flickr and Pbase is the sharing. It appears you must invite others to see your Gallery or it never gets seen. This is great for the Xenophobe who have private collections and wants to archive them offline and share them with just a select few. However since most photographers who like to post online tend to be narcissistic in nature, I see no real attraction here.
Google has made this incredibly simple to use so this may appeal to the technically challenged. However if you are this technically challenged then you are probably struggling to get the pictures out of your camera. Picassa web albums are just too simple for anyone who has been on anything else. Stick with Flicker (I have an account there as well) or if you really want to create and control your own space on the web consider Pbase. Both are light years ahead of Picasa web pages. Feel free to check out my pbase site at http://www.pbase.com\bobt54.