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The day Google implements this is the day I leave flickr. Oh, they’d need to increase the limit on storage too, right now it’s at 250mb which is very strange for google who usually breaks the storage barrier.

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JaredB says:

August 15, 2006 at 11:02 pm

Google often does “tech preview” type posts on their blog that look similar to that one, while they’re in the process of developing the thing they’re talking about.

One thing I didn’t see was any hints that they would want to offer these enhancements withing their web based product. I would think they would have mentioned that if they were going to do it, but that just makes it sound like they want to improve the existing (local client based) Picasa app to include better searching.

Ideally, I’d love to have an improved local interface (like the new Picasa if it did incorporate those changes) that allowed you to then publish that data to a web site (preferably being able to choose whether to use your own hosting space or their servers). I might be OK with only being able to use their servers if (like you said) they increased the storage space quite a bit, but now this has me thinking of looking around for something that already does this, but that stores the data in an open manner.

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JaredB says:

August 15, 2006 at 11:02 pm

Google often does “tech preview” type posts on their blog that look similar to that one, while they’re in the process of developing the thing they’re talking about.

One thing I didn’t see was any hints that they would want to offer these enhancements withing their web based product. I would think they would have mentioned that if they were going to do it, but that just makes it sound like they want to improve the existing (local client based) Picasa app to include better searching.

Ideally, I’d love to have an improved local interface (like the new Picasa if it did incorporate those changes) that allowed you to then publish that data to a web site (preferably being able to choose whether to use your own hosting space or their servers). I might be OK with only being able to use their servers if (like you said) they increased the storage space quite a bit, but now this has me thinking of looking around for something that already does this, but that stores the data in an open manner.

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JaredB says:

August 15, 2006 at 11:02 pm

Google often does “tech preview” type posts on their blog that look similar to that one, while they’re in the process of developing the thing they’re talking about.

One thing I didn’t see was any hints that they would want to offer these enhancements withing their web based product. I would think they would have mentioned that if they were going to do it, but that just makes it sound like they want to improve the existing (local client based) Picasa app to include better searching.

Ideally, I’d love to have an improved local interface (like the new Picasa if it did incorporate those changes) that allowed you to then publish that data to a web site (preferably being able to choose whether to use your own hosting space or their servers). I might be OK with only being able to use their servers if (like you said) they increased the storage space quite a bit, but now this has me thinking of looking around for something that already does this, but that stores the data in an open manner.

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JaredB says:

August 15, 2006 at 11:02 pm

Google often does “tech preview” type posts on their blog that look similar to that one, while they’re in the process of developing the thing they’re talking about.

One thing I didn’t see was any hints that they would want to offer these enhancements withing their web based product. I would think they would have mentioned that if they were going to do it, but that just makes it sound like they want to improve the existing (local client based) Picasa app to include better searching.

Ideally, I’d love to have an improved local interface (like the new Picasa if it did incorporate those changes) that allowed you to then publish that data to a web site (preferably being able to choose whether to use your own hosting space or their servers). I might be OK with only being able to use their servers if (like you said) they increased the storage space quite a bit, but now this has me thinking of looking around for something that already does this, but that stores the data in an open manner.

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JaredB says:

August 15, 2006 at 11:02 pm

Google often does “tech preview” type posts on their blog that look similar to that one, while they’re in the process of developing the thing they’re talking about.

One thing I didn’t see was any hints that they would want to offer these enhancements withing their web based product. I would think they would have mentioned that if they were going to do it, but that just makes it sound like they want to improve the existing (local client based) Picasa app to include better searching.

Ideally, I’d love to have an improved local interface (like the new Picasa if it did incorporate those changes) that allowed you to then publish that data to a web site (preferably being able to choose whether to use your own hosting space or their servers). I might be OK with only being able to use their servers if (like you said) they increased the storage space quite a bit, but now this has me thinking of looking around for something that already does this, but that stores the data in an open manner.

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Dan says:

August 16, 2006 at 7:29 am

Yeah, I’d assume they’d use this as an online feature as well because it wouldn’t seem to hard for them to incorporate it and I’d assume they’d want the picasa client and picasa web to be similar.

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Dan says:

August 16, 2006 at 7:29 am

Yeah, I’d assume they’d use this as an online feature as well because it wouldn’t seem to hard for them to incorporate it and I’d assume they’d want the picasa client and picasa web to be similar.

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Dan says:

August 16, 2006 at 7:29 am

Yeah, I’d assume they’d use this as an online feature as well because it wouldn’t seem to hard for them to incorporate it and I’d assume they’d want the picasa client and picasa web to be similar.

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Dan says:

August 16, 2006 at 7:29 am

Yeah, I’d assume they’d use this as an online feature as well because it wouldn’t seem to hard for them to incorporate it and I’d assume they’d want the picasa client and picasa web to be similar.

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Dan says:

August 16, 2006 at 7:29 am

Yeah, I’d assume they’d use this as an online feature as well because it wouldn’t seem to hard for them to incorporate it and I’d assume they’d want the picasa client and picasa web to be similar.

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JaredB says:

August 16, 2006 at 9:47 am

Hmm, it will be interesting to see what they do then. So far their model for Picasa (from what I’ve seen) is to keep the advanced functionality on the client, and just use the “web albums” for sharing. I think that it would be more challenging to implement the kinds of things they’re talking about in their web application, but that’s not to say they wouldn’t do it. I just tend to think that since they specifically mentioned finding and sorting pictures on your computer as opposed to the web that the desktop client is their target for this functionality.

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JaredB says:

August 16, 2006 at 9:47 am

Hmm, it will be interesting to see what they do then. So far their model for Picasa (from what I’ve seen) is to keep the advanced functionality on the client, and just use the “web albums” for sharing. I think that it would be more challenging to implement the kinds of things they’re talking about in their web application, but that’s not to say they wouldn’t do it. I just tend to think that since they specifically mentioned finding and sorting pictures on your computer as opposed to the web that the desktop client is their target for this functionality.

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JaredB says:

August 16, 2006 at 9:47 am

Hmm, it will be interesting to see what they do then. So far their model for Picasa (from what I’ve seen) is to keep the advanced functionality on the client, and just use the “web albums” for sharing. I think that it would be more challenging to implement the kinds of things they’re talking about in their web application, but that’s not to say they wouldn’t do it. I just tend to think that since they specifically mentioned finding and sorting pictures on your computer as opposed to the web that the desktop client is their target for this functionality.

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JaredB says:

August 16, 2006 at 9:47 am

Hmm, it will be interesting to see what they do then. So far their model for Picasa (from what I’ve seen) is to keep the advanced functionality on the client, and just use the “web albums” for sharing. I think that it would be more challenging to implement the kinds of things they’re talking about in their web application, but that’s not to say they wouldn’t do it. I just tend to think that since they specifically mentioned finding and sorting pictures on your computer as opposed to the web that the desktop client is their target for this functionality.

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JaredB says:

August 16, 2006 at 9:47 am

Hmm, it will be interesting to see what they do then. So far their model for Picasa (from what I’ve seen) is to keep the advanced functionality on the client, and just use the “web albums” for sharing. I think that it would be more challenging to implement the kinds of things they’re talking about in their web application, but that’s not to say they wouldn’t do it. I just tend to think that since they specifically mentioned finding and sorting pictures on your computer as opposed to the web that the desktop client is their target for this functionality.

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