<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, picasa]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, picasa]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/picasa http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/picasa <![CDATA[Google gets into your TV]]> panasonicThe beast of Mountain View isn't content with dominating search and online advertising. To corner another part of your world, heretofore mostly Google-free, it has partnered with Matsushita, the folks who make Panasonic electronics, to create a Google TV. These flat-panel screens with built-in Internet access will link living-room viewers to YouTube videos or Picasa photo galleries. Low-resolution video and amateur photos — just what we all wanted to watch!

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=342292&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Find Sergey and Larry's secret vacation pics]]> Sergey Brin always keeps a low profile online. The Google co-founder's message about installing a humidifier makes him the dullest Usenet poster ever, and the empty Orkut profile doesn't help.

Now, thanks to Google's new Picasa Web Albums (marked "TEST," short for "This one really is in beta"), Sergey stays just as boring. His public photos show mountains, beaches, and, um, space — and only one shot of Sergey, just to prove he didn't pull the rest from Freestockphotos.com.

At least, it looks like Sergey. Visit his album for the full version.

But what about the "secret" pics? The ever-clever Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped sniffed out Sergey buddy Larry Page's secret photos. Larry has since sent a minion to hide those pics, but who knows what other "private" pics are waiting for clever URL-guessers to uncover.

Sergey Brin in Kalalau [Sergey's Picasa Web album]
No Privacy for Picasa Web Albums [Google Blogoscoped]

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