Historically I have used Picasa to organize the photos on my PC, and I used Photoworks to print off copies, but I have been wanting to switch to Flickr…I have a Flickr account and may be giving it a go soon.

Thanks for the comment and the insight into Flickr’s capabilities.

Flickr beats Picasa Web Albums hands down. There is no doubt about that. But, I primarily use my desktop Picasa software as my primary photo organization tool. And only a portion of what I take makes it into the web. Since I spend so much time in PicasaS, it is just a huge convenience for me to upload pictures without having to use another interface! Of course, the price I would pay for it would be all the features that Picasa Web Albums is lacking at the moment.

That’s the reason why I continue to use Flickr but I will continue to watch Picasa playing catch up. Also, thanks for sharing the information about Zooomr. I have to look into it and maybe I will report back with what I thought of it.

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I hate to point out a few obvious items but here goes.
Flickr is better because it provides more value initially and exponentially so when you pay the $25/yr.
*Free – You can upload 100MB every month that means over the course of a year you can upload 1.2GB so yeah Flickr grows too and at a much higher rate than Picasa

*Paid – you need a GB or 2GB because you just flew around the world, cool. You would still pick Flickr because after your upgrade expires you can keep you several GBs of photos up on Flickr where as you need to keep paying over at Google for your storage usage. GB to GB value is enormously on Flickr’s side.

You like Picasa(S=Software), great, me too. But PicasaS doesn’t do nearly as much as Flickr. PicasaS offers a great organisation feature, yup so does Flickr, PicasaS doesn’t offer Geotagging, sharing, commenting, timelines (visual), or any of the APIs that allow for the diverse and changing patterns of usage that Flickr does. Admittedly its convenient when offline to use PicasaS but that shouldn’t preclude you from using Flickr. Its no harder to use Flickr with PiacasS than without PicasaS.

Please have a thought about this, when Google adds Geotagging and now they are adding lots of the features I have mentioned are you going to go back and make changes to those photos? I know I won’t. Flickr has the functionality I need today and I won’t wait on Picasa to add that functionality so I can spend weeks back checking photos so they have the right tags, geo or otherwise.

That much being said I should point out that I use Zooomr. Zooomr is everything I said about Flickr but better. There is one hitch and why I don’t say much about it and that is uploading photos is an ugly process (third-party efforts are amateurish right now), but its cross platform is nice. Also Zooomr uses OpenID which isn’t even close to ready for Primetime and people have no clue what OpenID is so no one I know has signed up to see my pictures (not even my partner).

Now that being said I love Zooomr, Kris the guy who founded them is really smart and while things like OpenID hold them back from market share in the consumer market he is doing wonderful things for pro’s and hardcore amateur photographers like me and we will tolorate OpenID and once OpenID goes mainstream or he caves and adds a mainstream login feature his audience should swell enormously as his service is a million times more sophisticated yet elelgant than Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa, etc.

Sorry for writing a post here. I just (obviously) felt passionate about it.

I am publishing a version of this comment on my site and will link back since I respect you may choose to delete such a large comment or trim it a bit.

Chers
Rog