Picasa Web Albums
For the last 2-3 years, I have been a Flickr Pro Account user. I was with them pre-Yahoo purchase and when it was in Beta form. Since then, I have seen the functionality grow and grow to where it is a very versatile online picture sharing application. However, 2 things that sort of has been a draw back for me: 1) I cannot manage my pictures easily offline and share online, and 2) most people don't view your pictures, you just do, so why continuously upload them all online.
Here comes Picasa - Picasa has been around for awhile, but I have just most recently found out that they do websharing now. So, I'm going to give Picasa a try and see how I like it. It seems to have similar functionality as Flickr, but I have just begun playing with it.
Comments
I completely agree about the need for manage-on-my-computer and then have it magically syncronize with Flickr for online sharing. That would be bomb-tastic.
However, your notion that only you view your picture is wrong. I am subscribed to your Flickr RSS feed. Any time you post pictures, I view them. I'm also subscribed to Scott's and Chuckie's Flickr feeds.
Is there an RSS feed for your online Picassa doo-hickey?
Posted by: J$ | August 9, 2006 11:43 AM
I have yet to fully immerse myself in the functionality of Picasa, but I will let you know if there is an RSS feed for online Picasa.
And, unfortunately, you may be one of maybe 2 or 3 people that actually view the Flickr pics.
Posted by: cwp | August 10, 2006 09:06 AM
That's because you don't reference them in your blog enough. More people would view them if you would draw more attention to them.
Open data! Open data!
Did you know that you have 14 subscribers to your feed in Bloglines? (That doesn't include other news readers.) How many of those can you name?
Posted by: J$ | August 11, 2006 12:27 AM
I forgot. Flickr has an API.
Once I remembered that, a simple search for "flickr synchronize" turned up a lot of hits.
For example, LittleSyncr:
The Red Balloon People always got your back.
Posted by: J$ | August 11, 2006 12:29 AM