Monday, May 07, 2007

More Evidence Of Picasa Orkut Integration?

(Hat Tip: Luis Guilherme)

Luis over at Inside Orkut Brasil has published some screen shots highlighting of what could be the beginning of Picasa Web Albums integrating with (or hopefully replacing) Orkut Albums.



Notice how similar these arrows look like when compared to the ones used in Picasa Web Albums.



I'm not seeing anything yet, although if this rumor is true hopefully it will be something more than a cosmetic change as Picasa Albums has a lot more function (and space) than Orkut Albums.

Note: Is anybody else seeing this?

Update (5/16): I see this in my Album right now, and Luis has informed me that Google is rolling this out to more profiles.

(Orkut Help Group) You asked for it, so we're adding a better way to flip through
somebody's photo album on orkut.

Instead of having to click on a photo, then click "back to album" to
get to the next pic, you can now just click on the arrows above the
pic to see the next or last one!

We're rolling this out a few profiles at a time, so just hold tight if
you don't see it yet.

Happy scrolling!
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By the looks of this, it seems as if this is nothing more than a cosmetic change. Alas, and I was looking forward to Picasa becoming one with Orkut Albums soooo much.

7 opinions:

Anonymous said...

yeah!!! i have been seeing this for the last 3-4 days...am in india ,

Luis Guilherme said...

I found otimo to have albuns of picassa in orkut
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Eu achei otimo ter albuns do picassa no orkut

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Thanks Darnell ;-)

Danny Piccirillo said...

This has been spotted before but disappeared for a while. I don't think anybody can doubt that picasa will be integrated into Orkut - Forum link to first sighing, Sunday, January 28, 2007 http://blog.outer-court.com/forum/84241.html

Danny Piccirillo said...

i can definitely see orkut + picasa in the future. They've already done it with blogger

rohit kaveeshwar said...

ya its looks like that google is serious about orkut and it will surely make that so called universal search engine... n don't get into a shock if tomorrow google says that ur profile's scrpas n your communities forums are also displayed in the universal search by google....
so watch out for the news guys bcoz google can do anything

Vijay Padiyar said...

I was hoping Google would integrate Picasa Web Albums with Orkut, rather than give a separate "Picasa-like" album for Orkut. It just doesn't make sense as a user to maintain two separate albums! I need to upload my pictures in both places as of today. It would be terrific from a product integration and brand positioning standpoint to integrate Picasa itself with Orkut.

On a related note, I think it's high time that Google increased Picasa's storage limits! 1 GB was great when it started off, but it's terribly inadequate now. In this day and age of unlimited storage email accounts, why this restriction on Picasa?

Anonymous said...

PLease!!! i am tired to upload pictures both in picasa AND orkut. My english mates dont have orkut so they cant see it.. and picasa albums are just so much better!!

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