Kinda surprised to see Google release this right after the premier of Google Chrome

News from Official Google blog
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/int...ig-changes.html

Overview / Full List of new features
http://www.google.com/support/photos/bin/a...py?answer=93773

Download
http://picasa.google.com/intl/en_us/

Seems Google is ready to take entire virtual community under its hood! New features make it like free Lightroom for common user and few more features like video and text addition are plus.

Thanks for posting.