It was inevitable.
After launching a large number of services, Google is finally starting to stitch them together.
The latest is Picasa. Picasa was the gold standard for PC albums. When Google took them, I was a bit disappointed the all the cool stuff you could then do with Picasa was hard-coded into Google. Nonetheless, it was an attempt to have services work with each other.
Now, Picasa goes online in a true way (then what was Hello?), integrating an online album with the PC app. not rocket science, but as Google showed with email, it doesn’t have to be – it only needs to be good and what people like.
But, what caught my eye was the side comment that Picasa also works with Google Earth. To me, that’s really cool. It’s gonna be those weird links that will really start thrilling the masses and bring all the Google stuff together.
Keep it up, Google.
Link: Official Google Blog: Picasa goes online, gets new features too.
And there’s more — you can import into any folder you like, make time-lapse sequences into movies, search by color, create a screensaver with beautiful visual effects, and even re-arrange Picasa’s buttons. Oh, and we also made Picasa work with Google Earth, so you can put information about where you went on vacation into the photos themselves, and then, view your shots on a 3-D globe. Try it all out for yourself at picasa.google.com.
Oh, and have you checked out moon.google.com (mentioned in post above)? Why can’t my company be so cool: zoom into the highest resolution moon images. It’s for real!
