Picasa Gains Google AdWords Ads
Mar 16, 2009 at 9:20am ET by Barry Schwartz
Google Operating System reports Picasa is the latest Google property to be monetized with Google AdWords ads. If you conduct searches for pictures in Picasa's web albums, you will find the ads at the top of the image results. For example, a search on my iPhone shows ads for AT&T, Blackberry and ZapBangDone.com (an iPhone app seller).
Here is a picture:
We all know Google said they will be placing more ads in more places. So this is just the latest Google property to show ads. [...]
Filed in: Google: AdWords, Google: Picasa
Google Finally Brings Picasa To The Mac
Jan 6, 2009 at 9:42am ET by Barry Schwartz
Google announced the now have Picasa for Mac available for download. Why now? Well, MacWorld 2009 is currently underway - so that is why they released it this week. What took so long for Google to bring Picasa to the Mac? I am not sure.
Google had a Picasa Web Albums uploader and an iPhoto plugin for Mac users but never the application.
The Wired Blog has a nice walk through the of many features available in Picasa. Below I will also embed a video demonstration of Picasa for Mac.
As many of you know, I am a long time Mac user. I personally have been using iPhoto with Flick [...]
Filed in: Google: Picasa
Yahoo Upgrades Flickr Mobile; Google Upgrades Picasa
Dec 4, 2008 at 7:36pm ET by Matt McGee
Photo search took a couple steps forward today with announcements from both Yahoo and Google. The news from Yahoo is a mobile makeover of its Flickr photo sharing site, while Google announced a variety of improvements to its Picasa photo service.
Here's a look at the two announcements:
Flickr's "Mobile Makeover"
With visits to Flickr's mobile site (m.flickr.com) up more than 50% in the past year, the mobile site now shares much of the same features and functionality that Flickr users are familiar with on the main site.
The Yahoo announcement trumpets the new video playback capabili [...]
Filed in: Google: Picasa, Search Engines: Photo & Image Search, Yahoo: Flickr
Google’s Picasa Adding Facial Recognition
Sep 2, 2008 at 10:55am ET by Barry Schwartz
Revamped Google Picasa site identifies photo faces by Stephen Shankland reports Google's adding facial recognition technology to Picasa.
Picasa users will be able to label their photos with names. Google will then start to automatically suggest other photos that look similar to the ones you already named.
Mike Horowitz, Google's Picasa product manager told News.com:
Once you've started naming people, we'll start suggesting names for you based on similarity. The process of naming people is really addictive and tremendously fun.
Google's Picasa 3.0 beta will have this feature and it is exp [...]
Filed in: Google: Picasa
Google Selling Extra Storage For Gmail, Picasa & More; Microsoft Launches Own SkyDrive Solution
Aug 10, 2007 at 8:34am ET by Barry Schwartz
The Google Blog announced they are allowing users to pay for additional storage for Gmail and Picasa.
Currently Google gives you 1GB of free space for Picasa and 2.8GB of free space for Gmail. You can now buy additional space, and Google hopes to expand this service to their other services, such as Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
The current plans are: 6GB for $20.00 per year, 25GB for $75.00 per year, 100GB $250.00 per year, and 250 GB $500.00 per year.
You can purchase the additional storage over here, and you can check your current storage usage at this page. Google Blogoscoped has screen [...]
Filed in: Google: Gmail, Google: Picasa, Microsoft: General
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