Still Any Question that the Picasa brand is on it's way out?

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Stephen

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Oct 16, 2011, 3:38:52 PM10/16/11
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Catching up on my GReader feeds and noticed this from; http://goo.gl/pQsfy

Google+Photos.png



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Patrick Shanahan

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Oct 16, 2011, 4:35:13 PM10/16/11
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* Stephen <stephen...@gmail.com> [10-16-11 15:40]:

> Catching up on my GReader feeds and noticed this from; http://goo.gl/pQsfy
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> [image: Google+Photos.png]
>

"Your albums", available on the left sidebar from "Photos" takes you to
your picasa web albums.

While I firmly believe that picasa is done, the movement within picasa+
does not appear to me to make that a concrete event....

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Stephen

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Oct 17, 2011, 7:26:33 AM10/17/11
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OK How about most of the Picasa developers are working on the G+ photo team? :))


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Patrick Shanahan

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Oct 17, 2011, 9:58:53 AM10/17/11
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* Stephen <stephen...@gmail.com> [10-17-11 07:27]:

> OK How about most of the Picasa developers are working on the G+ photo team?
> :))

:Y)
I *agree* that picasa is eol/sol/*gone*/empty pixels/negative electrons.

It will be: no more.

But I don't believe that the menu changes on goo+ are a harbinger. They
do make it easier to just drop it, though.

Stephen

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Oct 17, 2011, 10:14:08 AM10/17/11
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Doing subtle changes like that is the way Google has historically eol'ed products. But I'm a Google aficionado so I notice these things. ;)

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mhenriday

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Oct 17, 2011, 1:34:00 PM10/17/11
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Have to agree with Stephen here - this indeed one of many prologues to the omen coming on....

Henri

The Real Bev

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Oct 18, 2011, 1:05:26 AM10/18/11
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On 10/17/2011 10:34 AM, mhenriday wrote:

> Have to agree with Stephen here - this indeed one of many prologues to
> the omen coming on....

So what does this actually mean? Our software won't work any more?
We'll be denied access to our existing albums unless we join google+
(which stinks badly, BTW)? What?


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Stephen

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Oct 18, 2011, 7:18:13 AM10/18/11
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Only time will tell, Bev. I'm reading the tea leaves or as a scribe put it; "the writing on the wall". ;)

It's also another way to revive a slow list ...

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The Real Bev

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Oct 18, 2011, 6:37:07 PM10/18/11
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On 10/18/2011 04:18 AM, Stephen wrote:

> Only time will tell, Bev. I'm reading the tea leaves or as a scribe put
> it; "the writing on the wall". ;)
>
> It's also another way to revive a slow list ...

If we want new members, we might start a dscussion about finding
bomb-making websites. I understand those NSA people are a really funny
bunch.

> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:05 AM, The Real Bev <bashl...@gmail.com
> <mailto:bashl...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On 10/17/2011 10:34 AM, mhenriday wrote:
>
> Have to agree with Stephen here - this indeed one of many
> prologues to the omen coming on....
>
> So what does this actually mean? Our software won't work any more?
> We'll be denied access to our existing albums unless we join google+
> (which stinks badly, BTW)? What?

When google started up I was so GLAD that somebody had taken over the
dejanews stuff. And then they put out MORE cool stuff. But somehow in
the last year or so I have begun to feel a bit uneasy about google. Not
sure if that's caused by a lot of other people having misgivings about
the do-n0-evil thing or by something I've noticed myself.

OTOH, I kind of like the display of our picasa albums as a sort of
collage via google+. Not as a replacement, just something extra.

I don't want to run chrome, and I really hate the way google+ works.
The Better Facebook guy (he has to change the name to something else
pretty soon) has made enough improvements to facebook that it's useful,
although nowhere near as good as usenet. I'm really sorry that so many
usenet-friends have abandoned usenet and migrated to facebook.

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Stephen

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Oct 18, 2011, 10:31:18 PM10/18/11
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Well before Usenet there was BBS and IRC. 
Everything has it's time, it's just that time is more accelerated then what us middle aged and older folk remember it being, not that long ago. ;)

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:37 PM, The Real Bev <bashl...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/18/2011 04:18 AM, Stephen wrote:

Only time will tell, Bev. I'm reading the tea leaves or as a scribe put
it; "the writing on the wall". ;)

It's also another way to revive a slow list ...

If we want new members, we might start a dscussion about finding bomb-making websites.  I understand those NSA people are a really funny bunch.

Now you've done it. The computers in Fort Meade, Maryland have re-targeted the satellites for your co-ordinates.


On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:05 AM, The Real Bev <bashl...@gmail.com
<mailto:bashl...@gmail.com>> wrote:

   On 10/17/2011 10:34 AM, mhenriday wrote:

       Have to agree with Stephen here - this indeed one of many
       prologues to the omen coming on....

   So what does this actually mean?  Our software won't work any more?
   We'll be denied access to our existing albums unless we join google+
   (which stinks badly, BTW)?  What?

When google started up I was so GLAD that somebody had taken over the dejanews stuff.  And then they put out MORE cool stuff.  But somehow in the last year or so I have begun to feel a bit uneasy about google.  Not sure if that's caused by a lot of other people having misgivings about the do-n0-evil thing or by something I've noticed myself.

OTOH, I kind of like the display of our picasa albums as a sort of collage via google+.  Not as a replacement, just something extra.

I don't want to run chrome, and I really hate the way google+ works. The Better Facebook guy (he has to change the name to something else pretty soon) has made enough improvements to facebook that it's useful, although nowhere near as good as usenet.  I'm really sorry that so many usenet-friends have abandoned usenet and migrated to facebook.

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The Real Bev

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Oct 19, 2011, 2:10:15 AM10/19/11
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On 10/18/2011 07:31 PM, Stephen wrote:

> Well before Usenet there was BBS and IRC.
> Everything has it's time, it's just that time is more accelerated then
> what us middle aged and older folk remember it being, not that long ago. ;)

On an actual on-topic topic, we can choose to see only pictures with
faces on our computers, but there doesn't seem to be that capability at
the website. Did I miss something?

> <mailto:bashl...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On 10/18/2011 04:18 AM, Stephen wrote:
>
> Only time will tell, Bev. I'm reading the tea leaves or as a
> scribe put it; "the writing on the wall". ;)
>
> It's also another way to revive a slow list ...
>
> If we want new members, we might start a dscussion about finding
> bomb-making websites. I understand those NSA people are a really
> funny bunch.
>
>
> Now you've done it. The computers in Fort Meade, Maryland have
> re-targeted the satellites for your co-ordinates.

Huh? There are no computers at Fort Meade, just a mess of happy smiling
folk who like to...um...play video games. Yeah, that's right, video
games... Trust me, I know, I've been there...

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Garthhh

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Oct 19, 2011, 10:10:42 AM10/19/11
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I'm still taken to my picasa webalbum when I click photos?

for me there are more questions than just the online question
will there be an organizational tool to use for my files? picasa is superior to anything I've used for finding a file
will there be the excellent back up utility?
I don't care what the branding is... 
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