Picasa Web Albums

This is really exciting for me, so I'll write up a quick post on it. A day or two ago, Google released their beta of Picasa 3. They added a bunch of new features and redid the UI, making things look a lot nicer. One of the most exciting things they added, though, is face recognition (to Picasa Web Albums, at least). It's almost like Facebook's face tagging system, except photos that you upload to a web album are automatically scanned for faces, and if the face matches someone already tagged, Picasa will suggest that name for you. Also worth noting is that your GMail contacts can be tied to faces. I'm sure there's a practical application here, but really, I'm most excited about how well Google's services all tie together.

Also, I've set up Google Analytics for the blog. I'm not sure why, but my Adsense doesn't work at all.