Flickr vs. Picasa
In keeping with both my indecisiveness and need to research an issue before making a decision, I’m still dithering on which photo-sharing program I should use: Flickr or Picasa?
To answer this question, I created a chart:
| Flickr | Picasa | |
| Cost | $25/year | Free |
| Manufacturer | Yahoo | |
| User friendly | No | Yes |
| Easy to use privacy controls | No | Yes |
| Allows tags that contain spaces | No | Yes |
| Design of embedded slideshows | Sleek | Ugly |
| Prevent embedded slideshows from playing automatically | No | Yes |
| Change speed in embedded slideshows | Yes | No |
| Change size of embedded slideshows | No | Yes |
Conclusion: The only thing Flickr has going for it is its embeddable slideshows. Otherwise, Picasa seems far superior.
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Posted by Jonathan Rick in 
Comments (1) 
April 4th, 2009
Your mistaken:
Flickr has a lot more integration options for websites, blogs, etc. due to it’s wide user-base. As for cost it’s free to begin with and is cheaper in the long run in the per GB storage limits.
Seeing that slideshows are important to you checkout slideshowpro, which offer integration for Flickr also.
As for the interface and ease of use, you might be interested to note that it’s referenced as an example of clutter-free good UI design in O’Reilly Interface design, and Cooper’s Interaction design books.
Might be worth checking out again;)