Hi, Yes, users need accounts on Picasa Web Albums. The API is to allow users access to their photos on PWA through other services/software. It is not intended to be a mechanism by which a commercial service can store images in PWA.
So exporting a user's photos to their own PWA account is great, but say putting your company banner in PWA just so you don't have to host the image yourself is not. Similarly, integrating with PWA so a user can add one of their PWA photos into a CMS is great, but having a CMS use PWA as a bulk photo storage system is not. I hope this clears things up a bit. Cheers, -Jeff On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 12:01 AM, srayhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Jeff, > If the service owns the pictures, a.k.a site owned content, would our > end user still need to have accounts on Picasa instead of the service > having an account on Picasa? Please clarify. > > Thanks, > > On Oct 8, 1:16 pm, "Jeff Fisher (Google)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This is not a supported use case for Picasa Web Albums. We want users > > to upload photos to their own accounts. > > > > Cheers, > > -Jeff > > > > On Oct 5, 10:39 am, "Feris Thia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Jeff, > > > > > I have question for the following term. > > > > > 5.9 In order to use the Picasa Web Albums API with your service, all > End > > > Users on your service must have previously created their own individual > > > Picasa Web Albums accounts. You must explicitly notify End Users that > they > > > are accessing their Picasa Web Albums accounts through your service. In > > > other words, you may not create one or more Picasa Web Albums accounts > for > > > the purpose of storing images on behalf of users without those users > > > creating their own individual Picasa Web Albums accounts. > > > > > Is there any agreement between my user that their images uploaded is to > > > share for public access through my public website - will be a > marketplace > > > and I intend to buy more space - and thus should be controlled by the > API > > > and not by the user manually through their picasa web application, > will > > > this term applied ? > > > > > Please advice... > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Feris > > > > > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:59 AM, Jeff Fisher (Google) < > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > We've updated our Terms of Service: > > > > > >http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/terms.html > > > > > > The good bits are we updated sections around commercial use of our > > > > APIs and also we now provided some approved branding images for your > > > > use: > > > > > >http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/branding.html > > > > > > This makes things much easier for businesses wishing to incorporate > > > > the Picasa Web Albums API into their commercial product as it cuts > out > > > > the need for us to negotiate branding rights for many common use > > > > cases. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > -Jeff > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Picasa-Data-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
