Mike DelGaudio

You can now add Picasa to the list of iPhone (and presumably the iPod Touch)-optimized services that Google is rolling out the door of late.

Google Retools Picasa for iPhone Users | Epicenter from Wired.com

The iPhone Matters blog has a comparison of Photobucket and Picasaweb. Personally, I prefer Flickr over both of them. But as far as integration with Picasa, you cannot beat Picasaweb.

While this leaves Picasa as a simple mobile photo viewer, Photobucket’s site provides an account-linked email address for users to send photos that are then sent to their Photobucket accounts.Picasa’s more polished interface offers a much cleaner user experience that also makes better use of the iPhone’s dimensions, and also provides a quick link to Google other mobile services, like Google Reader, the calendar, and Gmail.

iPhone Matters | Which Do You Like Best? Picasa or Photobucket

If you’re using the latest version of Picasa, just follow the steps below to upload videos from Picasa to your online Web Album. If you see a “Web Album” button at the bottom of the Picasa window, you’re using the latest version.

To upload your videos:

1. Open Picasa.
2. Select the videos you want to upload. To select multiple videos, press the Ctrl key or click “Hold” at the bottom of the window. The selected videos will appear in the “Photo Tray” in the lower-left corner of Picasa.
3. Click the “Web Album” button at the bottom of the page. If you’re not signed in to your Picasa Web Albums Account, you’ll be prompted to sign in.
4. Select the album you’d like to add videos to, or create a new album.
5. The Upload Manager will display the status of the upload. Once the upload is complete, you can click “View Online” to launch the album in your browser.

Video Uploading is only available using Picasa. If you are using Mac uploading tools to upload photos to picasa web, you will not be able to upload video.

Good news for Picasa users. Google has extended the amount of storage available to free users to 1 GB. According to the official Google blog, this means you can now store around “4,000 standard resolution photos.” which is great compared to services like Flickr who — to my knowledge still has a 200 photo limit for free users. (You can store as many as you want, but only the most recent 200 images will be visible.)

According to my gallery page, it says that I have 1GB (and counting!), so perhaps they are dribbling new storage the same way that gmail does.

The best and easiest way to start uploading to Picasa web is via Picasa itself.

[tags] picasa, picasaweb, flickr [/tags]

The official Google blog reports that free users now have 1 GB of storage play with. According to Google that means “around 4,000 standard resolution photos). According to my gallery it is 1 GB (and counting), so maybe they are dribbling in the extra bytes a la Gmail.

Documenting Picasa has dug a bit deeper, and discovered that if you choose to purchase additional storage for the Picasa Web Albums that you can have more pictures than the previously thought limit. On this blog we discovered that for free accounts Picasa web Albums has a 500 image limit per post.

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]

Christina from the Picasa Google Groups tell us that us lucky Picasa users can get a discount on stuff ordered through PhotoWorks if we order via photos uploaded to the Picasa Web Albums. Pretty Cool.

Here is what she said:

Order cool prints and products from Shutterfly and PhotoWorks directly from Picasa Web Albums. Now, two special offers when you order prints through Picasa Web Albums: Take 20% off all PhotoWorks products when you use code C850-38-5124-11 during checkout (Valid until 1/17/07). Also, new Shutterfly users get 15 free, film-quality prints. No code needed during checkout.

It’s definitely a good time to get Picasa. If you don’t have Picasa, the photo editing and management software from Google. , you should.

[tags]Mike DelGaudio, Picasa, Picasa Web Albums, Shutterfly, Photoworks[/tags]

If you host your own Wordpress blog, then Vague Dream has just the thing for you. They’ve created the Picasa Web Matrix that allows you to integrate a little badge of photos from Picasa Web Albums you designate.

So, if you are a Wordpress blogger, and want to show your Picasa Web love, then give it a try!

If you want to upload pictures to PIcasa Web Albums, you’ll need Picasa, the photo editing software from Google. If you don’t have it, you should.

[tags]Mike DelGaudio, Picasa, Picasa Web Albums, Vague Dream, Picasa Web matrix[/tags]