Picasa Web Albums

Google makes Picasa, a fairly straightforward and free photo-editing program for the PC. They've added a great new photo-sharing feature in the newest version called Web Albums. All you need is a Google Account and you can upload your photos to a Web Album archive via the Picasa program... but not all of your photos, and definitely not a lot of of your photos, only up to 250 MB of them!

What? 250 MB? So many people have 5+ megapixel cameras today; how many of them do you think know how or actually have the time to scale their images down? If you ask me, they shouldn't have to. A typical high-resolution image is ~ 3MB; with a storage quota of 250 MB, that's only 83 images!

For the love of all things intelligent, am I the only one wondering why they just don't merge the photo storage quota with Gmail's? I'm still only using 1% of my Gmail mailbox quota and I've been using it for quite some time now.

Honestly, what the fuck are they thinking? You need a Google account for Picasa's new Web Albums service (or any other Google service) and at the core of every Google account is Gmail with nearly 3GB of storage! What on earth is anyone going to do with 3GB of storage for email alone?


Wake up Google, or hire me when you're ready to improve.