Google Picasa Web Albums service has gone live and is similar to Flickr. Google Picasa is still in beta and requires an invitation to use its online services.

Here is a quick comparision between Google Picasa and the other online photo storage Flickr.

Uploading Feature: Both the services provide a web interface for uploading your pictures to their photo servers. But Flickr also provides other photo uploading functinality like uploading through Mobile Phones or emailing photos directly.



Free Storage Space: Flickr offers 20MB of storage space per month for free where as Picasa offers 250MB storage space for free.

Paid Storage Space: Flickr offers 2GB of storage space per month for $25 where as Picasa offers 6GB per month for the same.

Photo Taging Feature: Flickr offers a beautiful feature of photo tagging, which allows the users to tag their photos, for example in a group photo you can mark your face with your name or a link and when an user moves their cursor on the photo the text/link in the tag is displayed to them. Picasa lacks this feature.

Overall Flickr is a better community Oriented with lot more features to offer than google picasa
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