Additional 11 languages for Picasa

The latest version of Picasa, Version 2.7, Build 37.36 - October 30, 2007 has added support for an additional 11 languages

• Bulgarian
• Catalan
• Filipino
• Indonesian
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Serbian
• Slovakian
• Slovenian
• Thai
• Vietnamese.

Slideshow element for Layouts based Blogger blogs

For Blogger based blogs that use the Layouts feature to define their appearance, there is now a convenient Slideshow page element that can showcase pictures from Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, or any other site using MediaRSS.

The announcement on Blogger Buzz about this is illustrated with a couple of photos, but the blog itself does not use the feature - in fact it can't since it looks as if it is a Template based blog, rather than a Layouts based blog.

Template based blogs of course can still include slideshows via other mechanisms, such as Google gadgets which currently offers 102 results matching "slideshow".