Google acquires Picasa

[Spyder Veteran]

Interesting! Picasa is an amazing app for sorting out all your digital photos.

Google Inc. today announced it acquired Picasa, Inc., a Pasadena, Calif.-based digital photo management company. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

"Picasa enables users to easily manage and share digital photographs, and its technologies complement Google's ongoing mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," said Jonathan Rosenberg, vice president, Product Management. "Picasa is an innovator in the field of digital photography, and we're excited that the Picasa team is joining Google."

Picasa was founded in October 2001. In May 2004, Picasa announced a technology partnership with Google's Blogger service to make publishing digital photos with Blogger faster and easier. Further product integration plans have not been announced. Picasa users will not experience any interruption in service.

http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/picasa.html

(ps. i did a search on "picasa" first before posting and didnt see anything)

[Djmutik1013]

Picasa is pretty much like the apple software iphoto.

[bakerster]

iPhoto is sluggish on the macs

:/

[null_]

Google will soon control the digital world. :p

[Spyder Veteran]

,Jul 14 2004, 15:09] iPhoto is sluggish on the macs

:/

fortunately Picasa is anything but slow. I've used both iPhoto and Picasa and can't say I agree with the similarity.

If you haven't tried Picasa, I definately recommend trying it :) I'm hoping the new ownership will push this program forward quicker than its currently moving.

[russellc]

i use it for all my photos...i remember i got it some time ago when Radish suggested it in some thread :p ...its a great program

[bush]

everything's great, i agree. but imagine, if some day google wouldn't exist anymore? total bummer. world war 3.2 omfg

[macster]

Look like a pretty nice app

Some good competition against iPhoto would be good for us :)

Edited July 14, 2004 by macster

[Djmutik1013]

http://www.picasa.com/picasa/

[XanDaMan]

,Jul 14 2004, 20:09] iPhoto is sluggish on the macs

:/

Er, not anymore... :no: :no: :no:

Does this mean it'll go free? Ala blogger as well?

[Hankyone]

yeeepi!! a cool searchbox one the software UI!! :D :p

[Yazoo]

Picasa is a great app on the PC and iPhoto is great on the Mac.

I use both extensivley, and I find no similarity between the 2 except they both handle images.

p.s iPhoto hasn't been sluggish for a long while, you may want to install the updates.

[Matt]

how will this be integrated into google?

[snowgoon]

Picasa = Hello

Hello can post to a Blogger powered site.

Google buy Picasa - er... haven't they just bought part of themselves or something?? I'm confused!!

[threetonesun]

It would be great if it went free now ...

[BroChaos Veteran]

hmm, i just hope they don't ruin it...

[Hidea]

I think they know how to create good business, soon... some people will be hatin' google for taking over everything (similar to M$'s story) :p

Edited July 14, 2004 by Hidea

[Toxikk Veteran]

great, i love this software.

i thought oyu didnt like it spydie?!

[johnlennon]

Just noticed a link to this software called Piscasa on Google.com, looks like some kind of photo Organizer..

Picasa works with the digital photo files on your PC to create a better, more organized viewing and editing experience. Picasa will not delete or move the location of pictures saved on your PC.

http://www.picasa.com/google/?promo=hpp1

[imtoomuch]

You mean an ad?

[Post-It Note]

Lol! :laugh:

It's just a google ad.

[johnlennon]

You mean an ad?

it says its part of google

[FatCat]

what? so now picasa 1.6 is completly free?

[imtoomuch]

it says its part of google

Hrm, you are right. I clicked on the link and saw that. I have no idea then.

[Post-It Note]

Hey you're right... www.picasa.com goes to www.picasa.com/google