mediajunk

I've been a fan of Picasa for a couple of years now. It's extremely easy to use and has some excellent features - notably its ability to find photos on your hard drive, and sort them in a logical manner. It's like having someone come in and tidy up your place.

Today, I upgraded to the newer (but still free) version, and tested out the Picasaweb feature. This is a photo album space, hosted on by Google.

I created a small test album at http://picasaweb.google.com/heraghty/Gothenburg2005.

The whole process of sending photos and adding captions took less than 5 minutes. I've also been impressed with the rich internet/AJAX features of the photo albums.

I'd love to see Google going one step further and releasing APIs so that you could upload images or video clips from Picasa to any website using the API and/or a gallery script.

I'd also like to be able to add Flickr-style tags, and have these show up in the online version.

Amit Agarwal makes similar suggestions, and more. See his excellent comparison of Picasweb and Flickr.