Today another feature just launched called “Collaborative albums“. This feature enables you to collaborate with friends or family contributing  to a photo album. Just click the Share button and check the option “Let people I share with contribute photos”.

After that the people you chose can contribute photos. All they have to do is press the “Add Photos” button.

And just by that they will be redirected to the upload page which is much similar to their upload page they use to upload photos to their picasa web albums.

Another cool detail about this new feature that i like very much,  is that you can tun on and off the ability of a collaborative member to contribute to the specific photo album.

As it is is shown in the picture above, you can press the green plus to disallow or allow a member to contributing photos.

Well, this time Google tries to get Picasa Web Albums more social. If you watch carefully the next time you browse some album photos you will notice a new bar under the photo’s caption with “I like this” option at the bottom left and the number of “Views” at the bottom right.

Picasa Web Albums have tried a few changes in the last year in order to compete, but no change could boost Picasa that much to overtake its main rival