“We’ve just launched Blogger Images. So now you can include photos and images in your posts. Just click the new picture icon and you can upload an image from your computer or from the web. Try it out!”

This is a great step in the right direction for Blogger, as users will now be able to have multiple images within the body of a single post, rather than 1 image per post as was required with Picasa and Hello Bloggerbot.

Still need categories and trackbacks before it is a truly competitive blogging platform – you listening Google?

(BTW, I’m sorry for the lack of posts and updates to this blog as of late. My fiance lost his job last month so I’ve been working my butt off just trying to make my mortgage payments and haven’t been able to give “How to Blog” as much attention as I’d like to or it deserves. Wish us luck with getting our feet back on the ground financially so I can breathe a little easier and get back to writing about How to Blog!)

Link: Yahoo! News - Yahoo Buying Photo-Sharing Service Flickr.

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) is acquiring a Canadian photo-sharing company that lets people share digital images with select groups or the whole world, expanding its portfolio of self-publishing and ’social networking’ services.

I’m expecting this will work hand in hand with Yahoo’s recently announced Yahoo 360 virtual community,which will include blogs and photo sharing. While Yahoo already has their own photo-sharing service, Flickr is far superior.

I wonder if the pricing structure at Flickr will change as a result of their new parent, and if free accounts will still exist for non-users of Yahoo’s own blogging service.

Currently, Flickr is one of the most popular methods of posting pictures on Blogger / Blogspot (which does not host its own images). Seeing as how Blogger is owned by Google, Yahoo’s biggest competitor, it will be interesting to see how these plays out for Flickr users on Blogger. I’m surprised Google didn’t try to snap up Flickr themselves – I guess they thought Picasa was good enough (not, especially for photo sharing).