photo 25 Jun 2005 09:24 pm
Hello? Goodbye.
I’ve been using Picasa2 for a while to manage my pictures. I’ve noticed the Blogger link in it for a while and wondered how it worked. After taking a quick suvery how it works, I downloaded Hello, a program that is, from my quick glance, a way to send pictures to people. And it allowed me to post pictures on my blog, or so I thought. Not so much. My initial thought was that I’d hit a button, and my picture would appear in my blog. No, it put an entry in my blog, but it just put a link to Hello. I’ll investigate more, but this was not the cake walk I thought it’d be, given that it’s all Google software.
Investigating more, I see that Hello is an IM/Photo program of some sort.
The fine folks at Picasa have worked with us to create the quickest, easiest way for Windows users to send photos to a blog—via IM. That’s right, Instant Messaging has gone to the blogs. The IM client they built is called Hello. It’s a peer-to-peer networking application that enables users to share photos and text-chat about them live. It’s a snazzy little app but it’s even more impressive when it’s engineered to work seamlessly with Blogger.
Huh? So I have to use a peer-to-peer networking client-side networking application to share photos? This does not sound like what I was envisioning.
Just use Hello to send your pictures to BloggerBot. BloggerBot will automatically resize your JPG pictures, add your captions, and publish your pictures to the Web.
So I went to my blog. There was no picture there! Maybe I had to wait for a while? I had no idea. I uninstalled Hello and sat disappointed. 300mb of photos on my blog? Sign me up. Peer-to-peer networking application for sharing photos? I don’t need that.