I really want to love this product, I do. They finally released Picasa for the Mac which I’ve been waiting for forever. My girlfriend uses Picasa for the lovely photo collages on her blog. And she uses it to edit the photos and pretty do everything she needs to with them. But then she uploads them to Flickr.

Tonight I tried to edit my German Boy photos and thought I’d create a collage. I ended up deciding to skip the collage, and just export the photos. Well, for some odd reason, the flickr uploader tool doesn’t recognize the jpg files that were exported from Picasa. So I uploaded them to my picasaweb album. Except they don’t have multiple sizes for photos like flickr does. The UI isn’t as intuitive, and just doesn’t look as nice as flickr. I like that all the thumbnails are the same size and make a nice even grid on Flickr. I like that it shows you the most recently uploaded photos on the home page. I like the navigation options on the right hand side when you’re looking at a photo. I like that you can add notes to specific parts of photos on Flickr. And flickr is still way more popular than picasaweb. I’m sorry; it’s true.

My cousin once told me to “quit pushing my corporate products on [him]” when I teased him about Google Maps. I’m not a pusher, I’m really not. I love good products. I love open source software, and free software most of all, but I’m all about good, useful products. I pay for the unlimited uploads and sets and collections for my upgraded Flickr account, but it’s worth it. I push the products we make that I think are good and Google Maps is definitely one of them — I couldn’t live or get anywhere without my Google Maps. Picasa, though, is a whole ‘nother story.