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Picasa Web Albums Vs. Flickr

VS.

I’ve had a digital camera since November of 2004, and since then have been searching for adequate ways to host my pictures online. I used to host them on my site, or another free service called fotki, but that was too limited. It wasn’t until last year that I tried Flickr. I tried Flickr when I was in India, but the slow connection speed made me give up.

When I got back I installed the picasa software on my PC, and I loved it. Since you could easily upload to picasa web right from the program, it made sense to use that. I did a quickie comparison and chose google. I even looked up other websites (blogs) that had comparisons between the two, and it always just seemed to be a slight user preference… not real advantage or disadvantage to one or the other.

Now I have a mac, and use (and love) iPhoto, with my Picasa Web Album uploader plugin.

I was happy to use it, but didn’t realize that you could embed a Flash Slideshow into a website. With Flickr, I used a 3rd party site to achieve that, but with Picasa, it’s built right in. The only thing is I like the Flickr slideshow better as you can control the speed, and also see all the thumbnails. I don’t know what to choose!

I’ll have to do more extensive testing. For now, you can see examples of both on the Bukit & Chompy Photo Page

Tell me what you think!

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