Neptune’s Lab

Neptune now has a Picasa account. Picasa web albums is another Google property. Picasa and flickr both have their short comings. However Picasa takes the cake with it’s Blogger integration. I had posted the photo of Neptune’s little helper from my phone to Neptune’s Moble blog on Blogger. The image below (after the slideshow) is linked from Picasa. Photo’s uploaded to Blogger are automatically stored in a Picasa album.

You might also notice the Picasa badge on the right. While Picasa’s badge is not quite as hip as flickr I have quite a bit more control. I made a larger version you see below. I can see these Picasa slide shows fitting nicely in a gallery with YouTube videos.

Below is a photo of Neptune’s little helper hosted on Picasa. The photo was originally sent to Blogger from my camera phone.

Neptune now has his very own flickr account. flickr is a yaoo company, although supposedly less evil than Google also less developer friendly. I have to first say that they do have an API and I have yet to look at it, however the API requires approval for use in commercial applications. I am guessing that this is why we don’t see flickr as a big name in the mashup world yet. Anyway, Neptune started his flickr account of with some photos from his trip to Microsoft Island on SL.

Also, don’t forget to check out Neptune’s cool flickr badge on the sidebar, is any blog complete without one?

The photo above is hosted from the flickr account. flickr states that I must make the photo link back to them. I think it would be much cooler if they gave me a choice between linking it back to them or watermarking it, much like YouTube.