Friday, June 16, 2006
Google Puts Photos on the Web
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "NEWS" @ 02:00 PM
"Google is set to launch late Tuesday a new feature in its Picasa photo management application that will let people organize and share photos over the Web. Picasa Web Album initially will be available only to a limited number of Gmail users at http://picasaweb.google.com, said Adrian Graham, a product manager at Picasa. Picasa, technology Google acquired in 2004, is free downloadable software that lets people find and edit photos on a desktop computer and send them to others from a Gmail account or publish them on a blog. Picasa Web Album is designed to let people easily upload and store their photos on the Web. Uploaded albums can be public and available to anyone who knows the Gmail account under which they're listed, or private ("unlisted") and available only by way of a special link Picasa users can send to whomever they wish."
As you all probably already know, last week, Yahoo launched a limited beta of a new Yahoo Photos site that lets people download high-resolution photos, tag shots with descriptors for easy search, and comment on them. I haven't had a chance to play with each one extensively but find them both to be good services. There are still plenty of features that I would like to see in a service like this so it isn't really a power tool, but they do offer the basic photo management/sharing features. Has anyone else given either of these services a spin?
As you all probably already know, last week, Yahoo launched a limited beta of a new Yahoo Photos site that lets people download high-resolution photos, tag shots with descriptors for easy search, and comment on them. I haven't had a chance to play with each one extensively but find them both to be good services. There are still plenty of features that I would like to see in a service like this so it isn't really a power tool, but they do offer the basic photo management/sharing features. Has anyone else given either of these services a spin?
