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July 13, 2004
Your Move, Yahoo
Posted by Dana Blankenhorn
Google has quickly countered Yahoo's purchase of Oddpost by snapping up Picasa, which specializes in digital photo management. (The image is from Picasa's site.)
While the Yahoo-Oddpost deal looks straightforward, the Google-Picasa deal has several levels.
- Picasa was already helping Google manage images on its Blogger service.
- Picasa can assist Google in managing images worldwide through its Google Images service.
- Picasa could also help Google get into picture-hosting, a business now dominated by photo processors but which could absorb tons of storage, which Google has in abundance.
Your move, Yahoo, but I'd say it's advantage, Google.
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Dana Blankenhorn has been a business journalist for over 25 years and has covered the online world professionally since 1985. He founded the "Interactive Age Daily" for CMP Media, and has written for the Chicago Tribune, Advertising Age, and dozens of other publications over the years.
1. semaine on August 19, 2004 12:34 PM writes...
True, the picture hosting business is saturated by photo processors. But Google Picasa and CNET Webshots are consumer oriented services for amateur photography. I tried researching for similar professional grade photo portfolio service, came across Site4view Portfolio Courier, something else, but overall very slim. I wonder if that is a good niche for major players to move into.
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