Last week, Google introduced some new features into their online photo sharing site, Picasa Web Albums. The storage space has been escalated from 250MB to 1GB (for free accounts). For sharing, they’ve added links for individual albums and embed codes for photos.
Blogger users have even more reasons to enjoy; Whatever you upload to your blog is now a part of Picasa Web Albums. All photos uploaded to your BlogSpot blog since December will now appear in your Web Albums (they are working in adding old photos as well). Although, it’s pretty nice feature, I think some bloggers won’t like it because they might use Picasa Web Albums strictly to share personal photos. Take for instance, you uploaded a screenshot or logo to your BlogSpot blog, would you like show that screenshot in your Web Album? It would make Picasa Web Albums a storage bin for all your blog photos, rather than a photo sharing site.
It’s evident that Picasa Web Albums is trying to catch-up with Yahoo owned Flickr. Some have already dumped Flickr and moved onto Picasa, but I’m still in favor of Flickr (in terms of features and other social components), what about you?
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