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July 20, 2004
Google buys more innovation - Picasa
I read this on Slashdot recently - about Google's acquisition of Picasa.
I've always been a fan of tools for organizing photos, online and off. A few years ago, as a sample project for learning Javascript, I wrote "SOD - Son of Dypicgen". This was basically a web-based image gallery tool. I had written a Perl version, but got interested in writing a JS version, first to have something better than "Hello World" to program to learn JS and second, to see if it were possible to write a completely client side image gallery tool.
You can see SOD in action on my site - I use it for presenting graphic designs to clients as well as for my personal photo galleries.
In short I've found that JS is a great language and there is a lot of capability enabled through using it. There are benefits and costs to having all the processing done on the clients side. SOD is not so feature rich because of the trade-offs.
I take a lot of photos - and over the years I've struggled with the compiled photo organization software that is available. I probably have 6 or more different applications, that have come bundled with various purchases - my digital camera, my Dazzle video input device, my webcam, and others. None of these seem to do everything I need, or are somewhat deficient in at least one manner or another such that it is not extremely useful.
So today, when I read that Google acquired digital photo software Picasa - I went ahead and downloaded and installed the tool. WOW. This is undoubtedly the most intuitive and useful image management tool I have seen. If you struggle with managing your digital imagery like I have, you must give this a whirl. I'm still playing with the configurations, features and add-ins - but to this point I am very impressed and almost giddy with the tool. Google continues to impress me with their internal and acquired innovations.
Posted by gcrgcr at July 20, 2004 4:32 PM
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