Google-Picasa-Hello-Gmail... Promising but still...

Thanks to Rob who granted me a Gmail account, being a real supporter of Google, and already using Hello, I was initiallly enthusiastic about the Google's take-over of Picasa too of course.

The Hello-stuff was better than nothing to upload some pics at my blog although I'm a bit desillusioned about the "take-it-or-leave-it" possibilities of it : some strange code is created on your blogpost and I can't figure out how to tamper it the html-compliant way for layout-reasons (the pics are just posted with your text above or underneath it but the vspace and hspace stuff doesn't work to wrap the text around your pics. A bit disappointed about it I must admit. Additionally, my Bloglines feed doesn't seem to recognize the pics either - very nasty !

So now I added the free Picasa with it. Not really THAT fancy but it organizes yours pics on your hard disk quite well, in such a way that it gave me some hints to re-organize all my picture folders.

Some hints for the Google-dudes there : make Hello a bit more html-compliant so we can make better layouts around uploaded pics, integrated it with Picasa and - of course - integrate it with my Gmail account so I can have an overview of archived pictures at my Gmail... probably I'm re-inventing hot water here coz I'm sure the Google-dudes already put that in their "business plan" already ;-)