Posted by Jason Cook, Product Marketing ManagerWhen the Eye-Fi card was first introduced over a year ago, it quickly won fans among the Picasa team — after all, here was an affordable piece of hardware that bestowed WiFi superpowers on almost any digi…
Posted by Simon Han, Software EngineerPhotographs are natural conversation-starters. And with online photo albums, the conversation can start the moment somebody comments on one of your photos.That’s why we just launched instant comment notification o…
Posted by Dustin Cu, Learning & Development StrategistLooking for helpful demos of Picasa? We’ve started the Picasa Community Channel on YouTube to showcase videos about Picasa and Picasa Web Albums created by users just like you. From basic overviews …
Posted by Stanley Chen, Gmail engineerLinks to Picasa Web Albums and photos get emailed around all the time. Now, if you use Gmail and turn on Picasa previews from the Gmail Labs tab under Settings, you won’t even have to leave your inbox to preview y…
Posted by Jason Cook, Product Marketing ManagerWhen we released our initial public beta of Picasa for Mac OS X at Macworld, we mentioned that early testers were likely to spot some rough edges on the beta. Since then, we’ve been (metaphorically) filing…
Posted by Brian Axe, Product ManagerGiven that Picasa originally began as Windows PC software, you might be surprised at how many Macs you’ll find floating around our Santa Monica office (which is where Google’s photos-related work mostly takes place)….
Posted by Pam Benjatanaporn, Program ManagerYou may have caught the news on the main Google blog; today we’re releasing Picasa 3.1 and the “name tags” feature to all 38 languages we currently serve.If you’ve been waiting for a localized version of Pica…
Posted by Ping Hsin Chen, Software EngineerA few months ago, we released our “name tags” feature in US English, which helps you easily organize all your photos based on who’s in each of your pictures. By automatically clustering similar faces in your p…
posted by Mike Horowitz, Product ManagerToday’s a big day for us — we’re peeling the ‘beta’ label off of Picasa 3, and will shortly be rolling out an official ‘Picasa 3.0′ update to our US-English Picasa 2 users.Faster performance and increased stabil…
Posted by Fred Zhang, Software EngineerShooting video isn’t limited to videocameras, anymore — people are now capturing video content on everything from their mobile phones to their high-end SLRs. Thankfully, Picasa 3 can help you easily manage all th…
Posted by Greg Robbins, Software EngineerAttention Mac users: The Mac team at Google just released a new update of the Picasa Web Albums Uploader which now includes the ability to easily export movies from iPhoto ’08. This update also preserves geo…
Posted by Lei Zhang, Software EngineerWe’re proud to announce the public beta of Picasa 3.0 for Linux (just a few days past the end of summer 
With version 3, Picasa adds improved Linux desktop integration. For instance, it now uses your preferred fi…
Posted by Ella To, Test EngineerOne downside to revisiting old photos on your PC and editing them is that you have to remember to re-upload those photos to the web in order for your changes to be reflected online. Well… that used to be the case. Wi…
Posted by Tara Morrison, Software QA engineerWith the release of Picasa 3, we made many updates; improvements to keywording and tagging are no exception. You probably knew about Tag button next to the Search field, but did you also know that CTRL – K, …
Posted by Tara Morrison, Software QA EngineerIn addition to some of the other cool new features in Picasa 3, we’re excited to announce that you can now add text to your photos. You may have already spent time captioning your photo collection, but now, …