This is pretty cool, Picasa has now opened up (test) online albums, which you can upload to from Picasa http://picasaweb.google.com/ I actually might even use Picasa now! This will be a nice way to ensure my digital photos are stored forever! Of course, I'll keep the *personal* shots off their servers... maybe
I'm woundering if this can be used on website to our advantage. Posibily have a picasa gallery where we can advertise picasa refferals
because many people like me would like to use one integrated provider for all tools like email (gmail), calendar, office (coming soon), search, bookmarks, photo editing and that's what Google provides, free
Not much of blow yet, its just going to be 250MB space to start with. If google opens it up like what it did with gmail (unlimited) then yes, lots of image hosting sites, online photo albums will sit out of business.
It won't be free, it wouldn't be financily feasable for them to offer it for free with the kind of resources image hosting uses. They mention $25/year for 6gigs of storage, I don't see anything about bandwidth usage though.
If I couple that $25/year with adsense picasa refferal ads I'll be getting a good server and using it to make money
once they get the whole 'no private folders' issue fixed, it'll be good just got my invitation last night!
The idea is not new. Photomax is offering already free Webalbums with 5GB space. Google is just following the trend.
didnt know there is online version !! picasa is a great software that me and my gf always using. i just sign up the online version.....eagerly waiting for the invite.
It still says you need an invite, but if you login and enter your gmail id, you can use picasaweb immediately - without getting any invitation email. Btw, where is the upgrade to 6GB for $25/yr ? It seems its missing.