Mike DelGaudio

In this post, Documenting Picasa asks how popular Picasaweb is in relation to Flickr. I think it’s a fair question from a pure numbers perspective, but are Flickr and Picasaweb even remotely comparable feature-wise? Sure they both have pictures. But from a feature perspective, Flickr and PicasaWeb are miles apart. Not the least of which is the absense of PicasaWeb as a social application — Flickr’s most notable feature.

All of that said. I think Picasaweb is falling short on popularity because it’s a solution looking for a problem. It should be categorized with Flickr, Photobucket, Slide, ImageShack, Kodak Photo Gallery, and more. But, so far what PicasaWeb offered doesn’t exceed any of its competitors. On almost all fronts, it’s underwhelming. And one click upload from Picasa is not enough of a differentiator in any respect.

Googlified confirms this with it’s own analysis. Anywhere in the photo related space, PicasaWeb is taking a beating.

Google even seems to willingly forsake the Picasa brand.

So, the question I have, is why is Google seemingly not even trying to gain any mind-or-market-share with Picasa?

[tags]Mike DelGaudio, Googlified, Documenting Picasa, PicasaWeb, Picasa, Zoli’s Blog[/tags]