Picasa...

Ok...I went with Picasa because I had used it once before and it is already a part of my Google account.  Unfortunately it has issues.  They are doing some updates to it, though.  For instance, you can download the application to your desktop and edit there or you can use another editor called 'picnik.'  You can read more information about the latest news on the GooglePhotos Blog here.  As for a home page, well, you don't really have one, at least not one that you can customize.  It only shows your public albums and any information such as location or captions that you put into those albums.  You cannot post links to other sites or even post an email link.

I did like one thing about it, though.  It is completely integrated with Gmail, Buzz, Blogger, etc...  So it's nice to be able to share and integrate my pictures in several places on the web without too much hassle.  You can post pictures, as I did here, to your blog, or embed a slide-show if you wish.  Or, you can simply post a single photo with the click of a mouse and not even bother about logging in to your Blog account.  I give it a 3.5 out of 5. Here is a link to my public albums.



Here is an example of a slide-show that you can do with Picasa.