Picasa Web Albums

Picasa recently sent me an invite to use their Picasa Web Album beta. I just downloaded it and sent all the pictures of our Las Vegas trip to their picture server.

It looks like they are trying compete with flickr (a division of Yahoo) which has a massive lead on Google.

It was very easy to get these pictures up on their server. They say that you have 250MB of free space. You can always pay for more.

The best thing about the upgrade, and I cannot believe they have taken so long to fix this problem, is the ability to edit the comments for each picture. In the older versions of Picasa, if you wanted to change a caption, you had to backspace and retype everything over. It was a major pain. Now you can edit the comments anywhere, but it still seems a bit clunky because it seems to be somewhat delayed when you click in the caption text. But you can do it and that is the big deal, for me at least.