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While others at Google are busy launching and talking about Google’s browser Chrome, the Picasa team was busy releasing the new features. The newly launched feature set now pit Picasa directly with Flickr since it now has an explore page, where you can explore the latest, hottest and most interesting page in the Picasaverse.

In addition to this the Picasa team has also added a recent photos tab that allows you to see the latest photos currently being uploaded to Picasa. Picasa is terming it as seeing the world through someone else’s camera. The photostream on Picasa is near real time and since Picasa is localized in 38 languages the stream allows you to taste different global and cultural flavors. By the way the Android team has also released a new open source Photostream application for Android.

In addition to this Picasa has also added a game called “Where In The World”. The game allows you to test your pictorial memory and shows you a photo and asks you to point on an adjacent map to tell where in the world that photo might have been taken. I really dont get the point of this game, but it was interesting nevertheless. No need to mention that I was always off the mark by a couple of thousand miles.

TechCrunch has come up with interesting traffic stats of the popular photo sharing services. According to TC:

Globally, Picasa passed Photobucket in July with 48 million visitors compared to Photobucket’s 43 million, according to comScore. It still trails Facebook Photos (97 million unique visitors) and Flickr (63 million). In the U.S., it is much further behind, with only 8.3 million monthly visitors, compared to 18.3 million for Flickr, 23.5 million for Photobucket, and 25.4 million for Facebook Photos.