After Google added a new entry into their robots.txt file tonight (Disallow: /orkut/albums), I began doing some research into Orkut's photo album feature.  If you listen to many, the current version sucks compared to what could be possible if they just integrated it with Picasa Web Albums. When Google adds something to this file, it almost [...]

It is frustrating that Picasa Web Albums does not display the total number of photos on the footer as they do with the storage, which made me to add the number of photos manually when writing “How Many Pictures Are There on Picasa Web?“.
In case I have to repeat the tiresome process in the future, yesterday I created two scripts to handle the job for me. One is to see the total number of photos, and the other one is to see the number

Google today has added a new member to the GData family - Picasa Web Albums, the Google Code Blog announced. Like other GData APIs, you can add, request, update and delete albums, photo and tags.
Although it is not mentioned in the API page, but there’s a JSON format of the API you can use - as you might already know, my Albums page on Googlified is powered by the my little script.
What I would like Google to improve is to have the smaller

The Picasa Web Albums team is pleased to announce the release of the newest member of the GData family, the Picasa Web Albums data API.Now you can access your albums, photos, comments and tags through a common GData API. Have a great idea for integrating your photos and tags into a semantic network? Want to add a slide show of your favorite photos to your homepage and include user comments? How about autotagging your photos based on image anal

Google had an exciting year in 2006 — stealing headlines with almost everything they did, even if the news wasn't particularly exciting.  Many of the more important things that happened are summarized by Google Operating System in an article titled "Google 2006 in 12 Pictures".
Will the excitement carry forward in 2007?  Like most of you, [...]

At least half of Google's Checkout service has been opened up to countries other than the United States.  Now, regardless of where you live, you can purchase items with Google Checkout — unfortunately, finding a store that will ship internationally is quite challenging.

One place that is accepting money from other countries already is Google's [...]

Google just released a new version of their Picasa photo management software that, among other things, includes support for Windows Vista.  I have not used Vista yet — and I don't plan on using it until I absolutely have to — but when that time comes, Picasa will be right there waiting for me.
Another interesting [...]

Haochi Chen noticed that Picasa Web Albums now lets you pay them even more money for more storage. Besides 6.25 gigabytes for 25 bucks, you can now get:

25GB ($100 per year)
100GB ($300 per year)
250GB ($500 per year)

If you’re a serious heavy-duty uploader, this is just great. Flickr places limits on Pro accounts that can’t be increased; there’s no amount of money you can throw at them to get more than two gigs of upload bandwidth per month