6 responses to “New Computing: Picasa’s Flaws”

  1. eikonos

    I totally agree with your point about computing being for the users, not for ‘cool new tech’.

    In regard to the Picassa/Flickr pipe, is it possible, and have you considered writing a plugin application to do that for you?

  2. Jason

    Actually, uploading pictures from Picasa to Flickr is very simple and can already be done. At the bottom of your Flickr home page is a link called “Upload-by-email.” Click on that link and it’ll tell you the e-mail address you need to use to automagically upload your files from Picasa.

  3. ~Brian

    Nice summation of all the compatibility problems. I currently have both Picasa and Flickr in heavy use, and do my best to make them work together. I hate that I have to tag/label everything twice … once in Picasa and once in Flickr. In fact, I no longer tag in Picasa … I search for the files in Flickr, find the dates/filenames, then use those to find it in Picasa. The Flickr tag is a great idea, though I’m sure there could be other ways to implement a ‘pipeline’.

    Anyway, the labels are stored in a proprietary Picasa database, which I’ve not read of anyone being able to hack yet. Jason brings up a good point, except his method loses all the relevant info tied to the images.

    Finally, I always think of Picasa labels matching to Flickr tags, not Flickr sets. The way you describe using them to label all of the people in a photo, etc., makes me think of them more as tags. I guess this point is still open to debate, though.

    I hope someone creates this API-pipeline soon … I scan the web every few weeks looking for one, but nothing yet….

  4. Leonard

    Well I use flickr and picasa extensively. I also take the route: No labels in picasa, edit, export, flickr.uploadr, tagging in flickr.
    It’s not perfect, but since Picasa looses my labels all the time (My Networkdrive with the fotos is a bit flaky), I stopped doing more than editing, Folder-Organizing in picasa.