Re: Google Retools Picasa for iPhone Users

4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in
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> http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/toph.../google-retool
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> Google Retools Picasa for iPhone Users
> By Bryan Gardiner December 12, 2007 | 8:14:09
>
> You can now add Picasa to the list of iPhone (and presumably the iPod
> Touch)-optimized services that Google is rolling out the door of
> late.
>
> On Wednesday, the company announced that it decided to wave the magic
> mobile OSX wand over its popular photo-sharing site after discovering
> that there were "some very cool AJAXy features," which were designed
> only (gasp) with a "desktop web-browsing experience in mind." Not for
> long!
>
> As Joe Walnes, a software engineer at Google writes on the company's
> mobile blog:
>
> Today, I'm happy to tell you that we've just released this new iPhone
> interface for Picasa. After you go to Picasa on your iPhone and log
> in, you can quickly see all your albums that you've uploaded to Picasa
> web. If you click on any of the albums, you can get a full view of
> your picture with comments from your friends. Or you can click on
> Slideshow, sit back and watch the pictures scroll. You can also search
> for photos in your album or through community photos. Finally, with
> one of my favorite features, you can view your friends' albums through
> favorites.
> Additionally, Walnes says pictures can be displayed in both landscape
> and portrait mode (you know, like all other web pages on the iPhone).
> It's also probably worth mentioning that Picasa has an iPhoto plugin
> that will automatically whisk your pictures from iPhoto and put them
> into Google's free photo sharing service.
>
> If you missed the news last week, the newly optimized Picasa actually
> comes only days after Google announced a new streamlined core menu for
> iPhone users as well.
>
> As such, the new mobile friendly Picasa has been duly added to the
> "More" tab on Google's iPhone-optimized homepage...or you can simply
> go to: http://picasaweb.google.com.
>
> As we said before: More iPhone optimizing = more Android practice.
> Expect more of the same in the coming weeks, especially as Google's
> software engineers are softly "encouraged" to devote their 20 percent
> to all things mobile.
>

More old technology. Someday they might catch up to the real world- if the
phone lasts that long.