I sometimes take a lot of photos during events and have been looking for ways to effectively share them with others (friends, colleagues, contacts etc.). Flickr and Picasa are two of the better options out there, but then both have its limits in terms of storage capacity but most importantly, not too many people are on them. These days most of the people I know that are active online mostly use Facebook. I guess it makes sense as Facebook is more of a general social site, whereas Flickr and Picasa are geared for more specific stuff i.e. photos.

However, Facebook photo app is rather lousy if you're thinking of sharing a slightly higher resolution photos, so that the viewers can download and print them. So far that I can tell from the photos I've downloaded, the maximum dimension is only 604 x 405 (though some say it's 604 x 402). I guess I just have to live with that, and have decided that for now my solution is to use both Picasa and Facebook.

This is actually easy to do because with Picasa3, you can upload the photos to both Picasa Web (the online version of Picasa) and Facebook. To upload to Picasa Web, just use the big Upload button at the bottom of the Library. As with Facebook, there are several steps to do first as it involves a separate plugin to Picasa3.

• First, go to Facebook and do a search on Picasa or just click this link: Picasa Plugin for Facebook.
• Follow the instruction from the plugin page. This will install a plugin into your Picasa application, i.e. another button for Facebook will be addded into the Picasa library.

That's it really. You can now easily upload up to 60 photos at a time from your Picasa3 application into your Facebook account. By the way, if you've been uploading a lot of photos to Facebook you probably already know that each Facebook album has a limit of 60 pictures. Don't know why but that's just the way it is for now.