Google offering Picasa Web Albums
June 14th, 2006 by Pascal Alberty
Google is still expanding all its tentacules around the Web. Now, they are offering a “Flickr killer app” called Picasa Web Albums.
For the moment, you can use PWA only if you got an invitation (I’m waiting mine), but
Once you have an invitation, you’ll be able to download the latest version of Picasa with the web uploading feature. And actually, it’s not just about web uploading — there’s also downloading. We wanted to make sure you can keep enjoying the photos your friends have shared with you. With this in mind, when viewing others’ galleries, you can download an entire album of photos directly into Picasa with just a couple of clicks. For uploading and downloading to and from Picasa Web Albums, you’ll need the new version of Picasa – again, it’s only available to invited users for the time being.
as said in the Google Blog. Also:
Finally, you may be wondering if this costs anything. No, and no hidden fees either. Picasa is free as always, and Picasa Web Albums comes with 250MB of free storage space. That’s enough for approximately 1,000 wallpaper-sized photos at 1600 pixels each. We also offer an easy-to-understand storage upgrade option if you have a whole lot more pictures to share.
250 Mb … enough for testing ? (again something to test) 