Goodby Flickr, Hello Picasa

I learned today that Flickr limits its display of its users' photostreams to 200 pictures. I wasn't aware of this when I created my Flickr account, and I'm disappointed that in order for all of my pictures to be displayed, I would have to upgrade (pay for) Flickr's pro version. Well, that's not going to happen.

Consequently, after a bit of poking around different free picture services, I decided to go with Google's Picasa service. It has a limit as well, but one gigabyte is plenty for my purposes (it took me about a year to upload 180 pictures to Flickr).

Thanks to a small freeware application, Migratr, I was able to quickly export my pics from Flickr and import into Picasa. Migratr can be downloaded here.

So, although Flickr is likely more popular at the moment, Google wins out in the end, as it does so many times.