Ok, this may be just a bit of a rant…Google recently announced it is killing Picasa, their photo hosting and sharing service launched back in 2002. I’m not yet sure what this means for my blogs, which are hosted on Google’s Blogger and use PicasaWeb to store all the photos.

Interestingly, when I tried using other hosting methods, such as DropBox, or even Google’s own Photos (which is replacing Picasa), the blog photos showed up in the PicasaWeb folder that hosts all the blog photos. And as an aside, the blog photos folder did not replicate in the Photos site, which Google says faithfully rehosted all of my photos.

In my perfect world either Google does not drop the PicasaWeb folders indefinitely (as in never) or, they auto relink all the photos currently hosted in PicasaWeb to a similarly labeled album in Photos that does NOT require I manually move the photos and recreate the links. Frankly, that likely means reposting all the posts in all my blogs, and that’s not a fun think to consider.

In the meantime, I’ll keep posting and see where this leads, but given that Blogger still points to PicasaWeb for photos in their photo link dialog box, I’m a bit concerned that Google may kill Blogger as well; for those of us using Blogger, let’s hope they update it soon and comfort our fears. At the very least, mine.

Thanks for looking…