Google Picasa goes 1 GB free space with new features

clipped from picasa.google.com What's New on Picasa Web Albums? More free storage We've upped the free storage quota to 1GB (and counting!). That's enough room to post and share around 4,000 standard resolution photos. Need more storage space? Upgrade Search community photos Discover and explore public photos posted by others in the Picasa Web Albums community. You can look up captions, tags, album titles, album locations, and album descriptions. Search also works across only My Photos or My Favorites if you're signed in. Share photo albums in your instant messages You can now share photo albums in your chats with the Google Talk Gadget. Paste a URL from Picasa Web Albums into your chat, and you can scroll through a slideshow of the album right in your conversation.