{"id":322,"date":"2006-06-14T09:04:51","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T15:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/2006\/06\/14\/google-moves-picasa-from-pc-to-web\/"},"modified":"2006-06-14T09:04:51","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T15:04:51","slug":"google-moves-picasa-from-pc-to-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/google-moves-picasa-from-pc-to-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Google moves Picasa from PC to web"},"content":{"rendered":"

Link: <\/b>Picasa Web<\/a><\/p>\n

Looks like Google has finally started moving from PC-centric thinking–overtaking the user desktop–to web-based thinking–overtaking the internets. I use Picasa<\/a>, and I love the program for its astounding ability to keep my thousands of photos on my PC organized. It’s easy to find the pictures I want and edit them, reduce red-eye, crop, add effects, etc. But I just can’t do the one thing that everyone needs <\/i>to be able to do with photos: share them<\/i>.<\/p>\n

There were two options for Google: integrate Picasa with an established online photo-sharing site such as Flickr<\/a>, or (the more likely option)<\/i>, create their own.<\/p>\n

Introducing Picasa Web<\/a>. Using the “test” system (is Google sick of using the term “beta” these days?) <\/i>is by invitation only, you have to sign up on their front page and wait to receive an invite. So, I’ve signed up, but haven’t test-driven just yet, so we’ll have to wait for the verdict a little bit longer.<\/p>\n

In order to sway users, Picasa Web<\/a> cannot simply be a Flickr<\/a> clone. The integration with the Picasa desktop software will be nice for users who are already using it. But introducing Picasa Web<\/a> won’t get many users to download and use Picasa. They need to have a fantastic web service that not only rivals Flickr<\/a> but completely and utterly trounces it. Every feature you’ve ever wanted Flickr<\/a> to include but hasn’t yet should be available in Picasa Web<\/a> and heavily Google-branded for those purists that feel that Google can do no wrong. Only then will Google begin to see the true benefits of having this system in place.<\/p>\n

As with all other things, I’ll be testing out the new package, and reporting back as to my impressions.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Link: Picasa Web Looks like Google has finally started moving from PC-centric thinking–overtaking the user desktop–to web-based thinking–overtaking the internets. I use Picasa, and I love the program for its astounding ability to keep my thousands of photos on my PC organized. It’s easy to find the pictures I want and edit them, reduce red-eye, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[269,301,302,303],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-google","tag-images","tag-photos","tag-picasa","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}