Picasa goes online, gets new features too

Posted by Michael Herf, Picasa Engineer

I have 80,000 photos in Picasa, Google's free photo organizer, but most of my friends haven't had a chance to see them yet. That's why I'm so excited about the new version of Picasa that came out today. It has a feature called Picasa Web Albums that lets you post and share your photos online for free with just one click. You can show the world (or just your friends and family) what kinds of pictures you've been taking. And best of all, you can even download your friends' online photos right back to Picasa.

I run around at parties and take photos of people, and now my friends can see the pictures online as soon as I post them. Rather than bugging me all the time to email them around (which I'm too lazy to do), now they're asking to have the bad shots deleted instead. Some of them even add online comments right to the photos themselves.

We've also fixed a whole bunch of things in Picasa. Folders finally work as you'd expect, so people who've kept their photos meticulously organized in folders and subfolders can see them displayed the same way in Picasa. And we've added a shiny new feature to photo-editing: Save. Your Picasa edits can now be preserved when using other programs. The save feature is even undoable, so you never lose your original files.

And there's more -- you can import into any folder you like, make time-lapse sequences into movies, search by color, create a screensaver with beautiful visual effects, and even re-arrange Picasa's buttons. Oh, and we also made Picasa work with Google Earth, so you can put information about where you went on vacation into the photos themselves, and then, view your shots on a 3-D globe. Try it all out for yourself at picasa.google.com.

Taiwanese Beauty Wang YiRen

Wang YiRen or Jocelyn Wang started off as a newsreader in Taiwan and now host her one of Taiwan's popular gameshow.

I reckon she's a real hottie altough some critics claim that she doesn't have any talent.

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Weekend Babe: Hot Sung Hi Lee

Sung Hi Lee is our weekend babe! This well known Korean beauty was born on 1 April 1970 in Seoul, South Korea. This 1.60cm hottie is a Korean American model who appears mostly in soft-core photoshoots. Lee has also worked as an movie and TV actress.

Lee moved to the United States in 1978 and attended Ohio State University on a scholarship for three years.

Enjoy the weekend!

The best stories on Earth

Posted by Rebecca Moore, Google Earth team

Everyone knows that Google Earth imagery and 3D terrain are unbelievably cool and fun to explore. But while you're flying around, have you ever wondered what is actually going on "down there" -- on the real earth? That narrative of living on this planet is portrayed in the new Featured Content for Google Earth. Accessible from the "Featured Content" folder in the Google Earth Layers sidebar, these new layers contain images, audio, video, stories and information about events unfolding around the globe.

In our September installment, follow the daily exploits of "Flirt" and her kindred Tanzanian chimpanzees in The Jane Goodall Institute's "geoblog"; fans have called this a "Chimp Soap Opera." Or go on a virtual safari in South Africa's Kruger Park -- or maybe you'd like to learn about how the locals in Reykjavik, Iceland relax in molten-lava-heated pools. Explore more than 10,000 miles of trails (in full 3D) in the U.S. National Parks, and find an idyllic lakeside camping spot in the backcountry of Yosemite. Visualize the global story of the earth itself, and how our environment has changed over the past 30 years -- or travel back in time to the Valley of the Kings in Egypt to discover the gold treasures of King Tut's tomb.

This first installment of Featured Content features six of the world's seven continents. (We fully expect that Antarctica will have a story or two coming up.)

By some accounts, nearly half of the information on the web actually relates to a place on earth. We'd like to help you find the best of that information and place it in the visually compelling context of our beautiful planet.

UNCF Google Scholarship Program

Posted by Emily Nishi, Diversity Program Manager

As part of Google's ongoing commitment to advancing computing and technology, we're pleased to tell you that the United Negro College Fund and Google have partnered to create the UNCF/Google Scholarship Program. We hope this program will encourage students to excel in their studies, inspire them to become role models and leaders, and help remove the financial barriers for African-American students wishing to pursue an engineering degree.

On the strength of candidates' academic background and demonstrated leadership, we'll be awarding $5,000 scholarships. Students must be enrolled in their junior year of undergraduate study at a UNCF Member College or University or at a participating Historically Black College or University (HBCU), and pursuing a Computer Science or Computer Engineering major.

Tell your friends, or apply yourself -- the deadline for applications is Friday, October 6.

Stunning Beauty Jessica Custodio

Hey everybody! I've got exciting news... flickrdude and myself opened a new blog called Asian adBabes! This blog will feature beautiful asian models, babes and actress in video! Cool or what!? Check us out 'kay?

Jessica Custodio has mixed German, Irish, Spanish, Filipino and Cherokee heritage. This 5' 7" babe's exotic looks are striking. Jessica started taking piano lessons at the early age of 5, and began acting and dancing by the time she was 10. At the performing arts high school Jessica attended, she began vocal lesson, determined to become the "triple threat". This led her to musical theatre, where she has performed in over twenty musicals.

Jessica's modeling career started when she was discovered on the streets of San Francisco by a photographer who wanted to test shoot her for his portfolio. Pleasantly surprised that she could get good photographs for no money, she proceeded to build her stunning portfolio without spending a dime. Jessica hustled and booked many modeling jobs, but her passion, acting was not flowing. She thought, "If I want to be a film actress, move to Hollywood". So she did, just after finishing junior college 2003.

With over 10 years of training, but no agent or manager, Jessica landed brief appearances in popular movies such as The Cat in the Hat, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stuck on You. She got her big break by going on an audition her sister was scheduled to go on. It was for the show called Oblivious on Spike TV. Jessica became a series regular for the rest of the season. Since then she has been modeling and landing small parts on shows such as Trash to Cash, FX, Charmed, WB, and The Handler. In her spare time Jessica has done a few music videos and some back up vocals for Molly Shelby, Virgindust Ent