Picasa, my favorite Windows photo-organizing software, has a great new upgrade from Google, which acquired the company a while back.
The funny thing here is that, though you will find Picasa referred to here and there as a “service,” it’s not really that; it’s an old-fashioned, standalone desktop application with a bit of sharing coated on top. I’m not stating that as a criticism — I love Picasa, and it’s helped me keep track of the absurd quantities of photos of my kids I’ve taken over the past five years. Much as I love Flickr, there’s no way I’m going to upload that volume of photos across the Net.
It’s just odd to think of Google, the locus classicus of the new world of distributed web-based computing, doing this sort of product, and just giving it away. John Battelle has more here, noting that there is no business model of any kind behind Picasa. That worries me, only because I’d really like to keep using this software for a long, long time.
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