Google photos

I've been waiting for an excuse to claim that Google was going to compete with Ofoto and everyone else in the photo handling biz, after all, it's one of the more intractable information/search problems we have, and it requires a massively scaled platform with sh*tloads of storage. Sound familiar? So today AP reports that Google purchased Picasa, which was Blogger's photo uploading partner. ... So now let me state the obvious: Google will compete in the photo management/storage/search/untangle-the-shoebox market. And by extension, let me state the not so obvious: I think travel is next.

John Battelle's Searchblog