I'm liking Picasa more and more.  Google using some of Microsoft's early on practices of giving away the platform and then (most likely) charge once you have the marketshare continue to bring out or support (by buying) the best web platforms.

I've been playing around with Picasa for a couple of years.  Nothing serious, just playing.  I would still do my buyer based virtual tours in Adobe Photoshop Elements and upload them via ftp to a server before emailing to a client.  Well Picasa has changed that.  With the ability to upload tours to the Google servers via Picasa it certainly makes the whole resizing and then manual uploading of a tour via Photoshop Elements seem somewhat redundant.

I was looking to put up our company Christmas party photos on Facebook this morning and then I thought, there has to be a plugin between Facebook and Picasa.  I did a search on Google and sure enough Facebook does have an add-on for Picasa to upload an album.

I downloaded the plug in and then highlighted the album in Picasa and clicked on publish to Facebook.  After entering my email and password it was quick as a wink.

I love all this free stuff we have as tech agents...  No wonder the old timers are either going broke or getting out of the business.  The costs of being in business traditionally takes the margin and then some, especially when the tech savvy agent can do more, faster for free.