Mi Casa, Picasa?

Anyone else using Picasa?

Anyone else know that Google (via Picasa2) has introduced a low-frills Flickr competitor? They have. Earlier today, I requested a beta test account. This evening, here it is:

http://picasaweb.google.com/grabbingsand

Go visit. Bask in the glory of my single photo so far.

Picasa Web offers 1 GB of space for free. For a familar fee of $25, you can amp that to 6 GB.

I’m not convinced. Picasa Web is missing a lot of the functionality that makes Flickr a good fit. No blogging from photo. No tagging. Not much yet in the way of community. But perhaps more is coming. After all, we’re talking about Google.

June 14, 2006 – 11:57 pm | By Thomas | Posted in Observations | Comments (3)
  • http://www.immediatetheatre.org/hblog H

    I likes the Picasa for the desktop. Ain’t tried the online version, but as I am still unaffiliated, online-photo-service speaking, I may indeed head in that direction.

  • http://yarg.org El Gray

    I hear there’s a signup for the new Yahoo Photos Beta, which uses some Flickr magic. I haven’t gotten in on that yet, though.

  • http://bearspotting.blogspot.com Emily

    I really enjoy using Flickr. Google would really have to come up with some killer functionality to make me switch…but, you’re right, it is Google and that’s what they do.