Filed under: Photo, Web services, Google, Web
Google finally lets you make Picasa Web Albums truly private
Online photo sharing sites like Flickr, Photobucket and Picasa Web Albums provide a great way to share a set of images with friends, family, or the whole world. But what happens when you only want a select group of people to be able to see your photos? Many sites allow you to hide or block photos from anyone who you haven't explicitly granted access to. But up until recently, if you wanted to hide images uploaded to Picasa from the general public, the best you could do was mark them as "unlisted," which meant that they wouldn't show up in public searches of Picasa Web Albums. But anyone who had the correct URL could still access those images.
Now Google has added the ability to restrict access to the people you've chosen to share an album with. You can set the permissions for a web album either when you're uploading images or after you've already created an album. Just click the edit menu, select album properties, and scroll down to the bottom of the screen where you'll find an option to mark photos as public, unlisted, or "sign-in required."
[via Google Operating System]
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samuel said 2:56PM on 12-04-2008
I can't help but feel that if there were instead a vote option, to buy or not to buy Flickr, that would make people sign up in their droves.
Funny thought.
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R said 2:57PM on 12-04-2008
Wow. This only works on whole albums and not individual photos? Not very flexible there.
I kinda wish Flickr would add per-user access controls also. Because you may want to show a picture to a particular set of friends or family member, but not to all of them.
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Jake said 1:25PM on 12-05-2008
Of course they add this feature literally the day after I give up waiting for it and set up my own Gallery2 server. Figures.
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