I would like to invite everybody to Google’s latest offering, Hello from Picasa. I’ve been using it for a day and I have to say I’m impressed with this neat little IM-Photo client. We have been hearing about all these Smart Clients that were going to alter our browser centric web experience forever, now we get to try one.
Hello is a new program that lets you connect directly with your friends to share your digital pictures. If you’ve used an instant messenger program before, you’ve already got the idea—Hello is special because it lets you share your pictures along with your messages.
With Hello, you just pick what pictures you want to show off, and click “Send.” That’s it. Hello takes care of all the hard work. And you and your friends can download full resolution, print-quality pictures from each other, while you’re doing more important things, like talking about your pictures.
It arrived just in time as I had used up my Flickr download bandwidth for the month of October after posting my Web 2.0 photos. Send me your email address and I will send you an invite, or you can go to Hello and sign yourself up.