Google has added new features to Picasa Web Albums, its online photo storage service, and increased the storage for free accounts to 1 gigabyte (up from 250 megabytes). New features include easy embed codes for sharing your photos through email, instant messages and websites and being able to search for public photos.
Also, Blogger now integrates with Picasa, with all the images you upload to Blogger becoming part of a Picasa account of the same name, enjoying all the features of Picasa, as well as the one gigabyte storage limit. For now, all your photos going back to December are in Picasa, but Google aims to get everything you’ve uploaded into the system. Finally, some useful integration of Google services!
Of course, this means Blogger no longer has vaguely unlimited storage, so be prepared to pay up if one gig isn’t enough for you. Prices start at $25 for 6.25 gigabytes a year, and go up from there.
