Tag: picasa web

Picasa Web Api updates

Google Data Api's posted a few updates today, a few of which I've really been looking forward to; Community Search, Retrieving a user's recently uploaded photos, Retrieving recently added comments for a particular user, Searching a user's photos, Filtering by tag, Uploading non-JPEG photos, Downloading the original photo. (my fav) Downloading the original photo: You can now download the original photo, including all EXIF data. This is accomplished by retrieving the feed with the query parameter and value…

Google Mashup Editor Blog: New Tutorial: Using Picasa Web Album Feeds in GME

The guys over on the Mashup team have posted a new tutorial on how to use the Google Mashup Editor to mash Picasa Web Albums with a Google Map. The example is here. I started working on my own but I haven't really played with the GME before. Hopefully I'll have that tomorrow.

Picasa gets a blog!

Google Photos Blog: Ready for our close- up The Picasa team has gotten a blog in the form of the Google Photos Blog. I think this brings the number of Google blogs to 75 (including the international blogs). On the photo blog they will be posting feature updates to Picasa, photography tips, and the team's favorite photo albums. In addition to working on Picasa and the Web albums features, they are also in charge of hosting blogger's photo upload feature, which is powered by Picasa web, developing Orkut's…

Top Secret Picasa Features

Google Photos Blog: Lesser-known (and secret) Picasa features Most people are familiar with Picasa's usual features; Editing, organizing, uploading, printing, etc, but Mike Herf, the Picasa Engineering manager is going to take us on a tour on some of the "easter egg-ish" features. He's going to be posting hidden features and tips on Wednesdays over at the Google Photos blog so check it out. The first up is search. While you might be familiar with searching for a filename, or a directory you know you put the…

October Speedlinking

I haven't been able to post as often or as in depth as I'd like to have this past month. I chalk it up mostly to work, we all love 12 hour days right? But now that sign-off has passed and our last release of 2007 is calmly approaching (its on Friday), things have settled down a bit. Below are some great links from October, most of which I wanted to mention at some point and haven't gotten a chance to until now. Enjoy. The JavaScript Library for Google Calendar was released. This allows for authenticated…

Google I/O session videos posted with slides

As I said earlier, Quite a few presentations from Google I/O have been posted for your viewing pleasure. I'll be glued to these this weekend while I'm on call. Topics include Ajax KML Sketchup Android OpenSocial Appengine Data APIs Theory Talks Youtube Gears Mashups Maps and more!