There's been a couple of posts here talking about using various "cloud apps", particularly those from Google to get the everyday stuff done - word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail, even photo editing. Recently Google introduced a new "feature" to make their on-line photo site more "social" - and in the course of things, threw the notion of privacy out the window and in some cases, just broke the whole thing.
This problem occurs at the confluence of two Google services. One is PicasaWeb, which is Google's answer to Flickr. It lets you upload photos and then lets you share them with everyone, or selected people or just keep them to yourself. Like most Google services, its free and gives you a reasonable amount of storage space, which can be expanded at a pretty cheap price. It also integrates well with other Google services, such as Google Docs. All in all, I have been pretty happy with it. Until today.
I logged into my Picasaweb site with the intent of shooting some previously uploaded pics to a friend. I clicked on the "Share" button and was greeted with a screen that said I HAD to link my PicasaWeb account with my Google Profile. Huh???
