{"id":15723,"date":"2011-10-13T09:07:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T07:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=15723"},"modified":"2011-10-13T09:18:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T07:18:53","slug":"flickr-vs-google-picasa-the-battle-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/13\/flickr-vs-google-picasa-the-battle-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Flickr vs Google Picasa : The Battle Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>As some of you know, I&#8217;ve almost abandoned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mamchenkov\/\">my Flickr account<\/a>.  I haven&#8217;t uploaded any photos there in the last couple of years.  And I&#8217;ve also voiced my increasing preference of <a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/105051429446577048512\">Google Picasa<\/a> on several occasions.  I&#8217;ve even started re-uploading all my pictures to Picasa and tagging people in it.  Which is how you probably know about it, since that stirred a massive wave of notification emails.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways.  There has been a sudden and unexpected development in this area, which I want to share.  Google replaced Picasa link (&#8216;Photos&#8217;) in its navigation bar with Google+ Photos.  And while Google+ Photos is an improvement over Picasa in some areas, it is an inferior product at this stage.  And that was done when I was almost done with my Flickr-to-Picasa migration.  I felt it was a blow below the belt.  And that gave me yet another opportunity to reconsider my reasoning for the move.<\/p>\n<p>These, to the best of my memory, were my reasons to move from Flickr to Google Picasa.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Uploader<\/strong>. This was one of the main reasons.  Back a couple of years ago, Flickr web interface only allowed me to upload 5 or 6 pictures at once.  If I had to upload much more, the only option was to install a browser addon or a desktop client.  Which I tried too, of course.  But all of them sucked in general.  And required constant permission fiddling.  Google Picasa had an excellent web uploader.  All I had to do was drag and drop a bunch of pictures into my browser.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mobile integration<\/strong>. Google Picasa had a client for my Android smartphone since the day I needed it.  Flickr was a different story.  A different story with Yahoo authentication on top of it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Price<\/strong>.  Flickr&#8217;s Pro account is $25\/year.  Google Picasa uses my extended Google disk space, for which I pay $5 \/ 20 GB \/ year.  But those are magic Google gigabytes.  Somehow I can fit 40 gigabytes of laptop&#8217;s disk space into about 11 Google gigabytes.<\/li>\n<li>Image editor.  Google Picasa had a built in editor which I could use to do minor editing like rotation and cropping.  FLickr didn&#8217;t have anything.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, these weren&#8217;t all my reasons, but they were the most significant ones I think.  So, did any of that changed during my inactivity on Flickr and during my Google Picasa migration process?  Yes.  Let&#8217;s have a closer look.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Uploader<\/strong>.  Flickr now features an excellent batch uploader.  I tried it and it works very well.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mobile integration<\/strong>.  Flickr recently released Android app, which works pretty good.  It&#8217;s not as useful as the Picasa one yet.  But it covers the basic needed functionality and I&#8217;m sure it will improve in the nearest future.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Price<\/strong>.  That is always something to consider.  In relative terms, Flickr seems to be 4 times more expensive than Google Picasa.  But in absolute terms, $25\/year is really nothing.  $2 or so per month won&#8217;t make much difference to me.  That was a stupid argument on my part.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Image editor<\/strong>.  Flickr now has one too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So why would I want to move to Google Picasa now?  There is really doesn&#8217;t seem to be any good reason right now.  On top of that, Google Picasa is being phased out and replaced by Google+ Photos in which I don&#8217;t have any confidence yet.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, my thinking now is that I shouldn&#8217;t really move.  Not at this stage at least.  I will upload pictures from my camera to Flickr.  I will take a bit more time to figure out what I want to do with my mobile pictures &#8211; either keep them in Picasa, or upload them to Flickr, or just use them in my blog only.  But other than that, I think, I made up my mind about the move now.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?  <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/13\/what-is-the-best-photo-hostingsharing-option\/\">What is the best photo hosting\/sharing option?<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>As some of you know, I&#8217;ve almost abandoned my Flickr account. I haven&#8217;t uploaded any photos there in the last couple of years. And I&#8217;ve also voiced my increasing preference of Google Picasa on several occasions. I&#8217;ve even started re-uploading all my pictures to Picasa and tagging people in it. Which is how you probably &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/13\/flickr-vs-google-picasa-the-battle-continues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flickr vs Google Picasa : The Battle Continues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,2,30,62,1334],"tags":[684,2782,2860,688],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-15723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-personal","category-photography","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-flickr","tag-google-picasa","tag-google-plus","tag-migration"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14483,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/27\/giving-picasa-a-try\/","url_meta":{"origin":15723,"position":0},"title":"Giving Picasa a try","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Those of you who know me, know that I am a big fan of Flickr. \u00a0I've been using it for years, and I have more than 10,000 photos upload there. \u00a0I am also a big fan of Google. \u00a0And even so, I ignored and disregarded their Picasa service. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15266,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/04\/more-picasa-web-albums-space-for-google-users\/","url_meta":{"origin":15723,"position":1},"title":"More Picasa Web Albums space for Google+ users","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Google Operating System blog tells: Picasa Web Albums offers more free storage if you are a Google+ user. 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