Google Is Close to Unveiling New Web Photo Service

The photo aspect of Google+ was always the strongest and most useful part in my opinion. So as long as this new photo service takes all of the good parts of Google+ photos feature and perhaps strengthens them, I think Google could have a useful service on their hands.

As much as I love Flickr, the whole premise of Flickr is to keep you locked into their ecosystem, not really fostering the sharing of your photos with other services.

I have high hopes for this. It feels like Google already has best-in-class features (stuff like Auto-Awesome), but the Google+ integration was holding it back.

Speaking personally, I certainly didn't want to upload my private photos to a social network service where they could inadvertently become public.