Picasa web albums is web hosting offered by Google. Each account provides about one gigabyte of free storage for displaying and sharing your photos and video online.

For those who use Picasa photo editing and organizing software, also free, image and video files can be uploaded to web albums directly from within this easy-to-use program.

What I like about Picasa web albums

• Free!
• No advertisements (as of this writing)
• Unlimited photo albums.
• Easily organize, sort and caption photos.
• Receive notifications when others leave comments about your photos or when a “favorite” person uploads new photos to their Web Albums gallery.
• Very good video playback; few compression artifacts if original file is good quality.
• Ability to Geotag photos to show others where they were taken.
• Receive email notifications when others leave comments about your photos or when a “favorite” person uploads new photos to their Web Albums.

What I don’t like about Picasa web albums

• Images aren’t displayed in full size (however, when downloading an image, it will be a full sized copy)
• Can’t create albums within albums.
• Can’t download videos that have been uploaded, though you can download individual photos and entire albums of photos.

My public Picasa web album galleries