Google have today launched their Picasa Web Albums, Picasa’s newest feature designed to help users post and share their photos quickly and easily on the web. It comes with 250MB of free storage and for an additional $25.00 USD per year you get an extra 6 gigabytes of storage. This will certainly give the folks at Flickr something to do.

They’ll be offering invitations on a first come, first served basis. Visit http://picasaweb.google.com and enter your Gmail username into the “Sign up to try Picasa Web Albums” box to be added to our list.

Post your photos online in seconds
One-click web upload directly from Picasa.

View and save your friends’ photos
Keep track of your favorite people and see when they’ve added something new. Download entire albums to Picasa in just one click.

Enjoy photos at their best
See big photos, scroll through them quickly, and rotate and zoom. Share the joy with captions and comments.