You won't believe this, I got 6 GB from Google Picasa for free.
http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/9595/zpo3.png
What happen?

250 MB for me. Weird.

Could someone upgrade it for me accidently?

your lucky.. dont cry wolf.. just keep quiet!! :)_

How much space have you used Philipp?

As for : Could someone upgrade it for me accidentally?
I think that someone needs to be 'logged in'. And the upgrade option is no longer there. May be you were just lucky that they selected you randomly may be.

I think Google wants to see what you do when you suddenly get huge space. Upload more or keep it empty. My suggestion Upload as much as you can may be this will encourage them to increase everyone's space.

;)

Still 250 here too. So Will Google reimburse people who paid for the 6 Gig.

ME TOO :-D
You are currently using 1 MB (1%) of your 6394 MB.

<< Will Google reimburse people who paid for the 6 Gig. >>

I doubt it. Maybe they'll just send out some free t-shirts instead? :-D

I'm still stuck at 250 MB :(

So is this a mistake or Were they just testing how people would react to subscription based products ?

You are currently using 12 MB (5%) of your 250 MB.

i think hoachi and tom upload as more as possible so that they can offer us .....

250 MB here as well.

hoachi and tom whats your link in picasa ?

so that i can add you .... and also some possibility of :-).....

My link in picasa ? http://picasaweb.google.com/tomhtml
but I don't know how I get theses gigabytes...

and in picasa, I wanted to add a video online and it alerts me "Videos cannot be shared AT THE PRESENT TIME", so maybe in future...

maybe the key is the amount of files you have in your account. Haochi is at 10 MB; TomHTML is at 63 MB (1% of 6384 MB). I'm going to have to upload some bulk photo's later on :)-

I'm only at 2MB (1 MB before today)...

there goes that theory :(O well, back to the drawing board.

Well Google I want to test that space too... Feel free to give it to me too ;-)

One thing i understand is that Google creates more curiocity among users.... in an in-direct way......... and microsoft dumb dont know how to do this....

My link is http://picasaweb.google.com/page.error
>>I think that someone needs to be 'logged in'. And the upgrade option is no longer there.
No, you don't need to be log in, you just need to have the link for Google Checkout. The upgrade option was there couple days ago.

Some French users have made a good supposition : maybe the 6384 MB are the allowed space on our own space, with Gmail, Picasa, .... GDrive :)
Thats why, maybe, new links appeared at top of Gmail...

What do you think about that?

shouldn't gmail make notice of the 6 GB then too?

that is a good possibility tomhtml. i hope gdrive is out soon then :)

Haochi, where did you find that little bar graph of the space you have left? i can't find it in my account.

i am going to fill my space in picasa today and lets see if they give me more and
tomhtml

   you suggest 6gb is the total memory for all the service ? if so
then how come hoachi gets 6gb only for picasa ?

Dpneal > you get this graph when you click on an album and you click on "upload"

Sankar > Yes, 6GB for all Google services. I don't know why Haochi and I got 6 GB, but maybe a bug and a google employee have changed "$picasa_storage" to "$total_storage" :-P

6394MB (Total) – 250MB (Picasa) – 2753MB (Gmail) = 3391 MB
Where they come from?

100 more for Page Creator

Sankar, do tell me if it works.

ahh thanks tomhtml. i still only have 250MB :(

sure sohil, i am here to share like others....

tomhtml
>6394MB (Total) – 250MB (Picasa) – 2753MB > Gmail = 3391 MB = ?
Where they come from?
No no Gmail's size is not a fixed. Llets assume it like below

Lets assume a Total of 10,000 GB is allocated for each user
4000 mb for gmail
1000 mb for Picasa (just a bare dream that they will introduce in future)
1000 mb for page creator
1000 mb for blogger
1000 mb for writely
2000 mb for gdrive or ...

Oh doesn't Blogger allow 300 MB (or was it 250) for photos.

So 2753 + 100 + 250 + 300 = 3403.

So We're Missing 1991. I thought Writely just had a File Size Restriction.

Anyway, Since AOL is offering 5 Gig Storage. Google will look weird not matching or topping this.

We have 2 possibilities :
- Total = 6394MB, so according to Sohil there is 1991MB from somewhere
- Total = 10000 MB according to Sankar. 453 MB from somewhere.
strange story

and some guys tells me that maybe someone pay the 6 GB for me (do you remember, before the launch of checkout, I was able to see the link "buy 6GB for $25!"), but in these case why have I 6,384 MB and not 6000 MB ? ;)

TOMHTML mayb storage counts up like with GMail

Then, it seems weird for Google not to say it. Is it a bug or are they really testing ?

What other Google services are expected to launch ?

GDrive, Writely (a new version in the fall).

Will Google throw at Gig at both of these then ? Since Spreadsheets didn't have a restriction, I'm assuming Writely won't either.

>>why have I 6,384 MB and not 6000 MB ?
That's an "addition" 6 GB.
6144 + 256 = 6400 MB, Google did the math wrong.

lol.. youre right..
the should Google some of their calculations..
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-28,GGGL:en&q=2%2B2

[Edit – Deleted double post – Nate]

soon something will be new in picasa of google....... ?

The Current changes in Picasa are
1. Inferno reported there is no upgrade option no more....
2. while uploading pictures from picasa to web-album, i found a button called upgrade......when i click it it re-directs me to account page of picasa
3. A Sudden change of name Google Photos

Ok here is what i guess
Google Will rename Picasa WebAlbums (Test) to Google Photo
When all other products contains labs or beta why picasa contains "TEST " is this something unique ?

in the old version of picasa it has hello a site that can be used to share photos but now google uses web-albums....

Within the recent months we will see many releases and changes in Googles..........Wriltey,G-Drive,Google Photos.. Etc... More space

i think i must stop dreaming... bad minded....

Seems fair Sankar, However it's a shame that Hello hasn't been taken anywhere by Google.

Sankar your ideas seem to make sense more and more if you think about it.

what i think is this may be a google error or bug for hoachi

Hoachi you did the math wrong not google

why are you calculating your remaining spacE ?

you have a total of 6394 not 6384 ... ok

By default you have 250 mb + an upgrade which is 6GB

so 250mb + 6b i.e 6 x 1024 = 6144

   > 250 + 6144 = 6394 that is equal to your current total space........

So now Google has added 6gb to your account.... and google did the math well. You failed in your Exam.. Lol....

hé hé hé
good calculation Sankar
so Google "offered" us 6 GB, pretty cool but why? I don't have headaches!

Wow, I thought it was 256 MB (1/4 of a GB)... Hmm.

Awesome speculations guys... but I think Writely might not be far away. May be Google will release Writely as Microsoft might be releasing their Live Writer this week.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/12048258/index.php

I just upload all my photos (about 1 GB) to Picasa web. lol... But it's actually less than 200 MB on Picasa Web, I just want to fill it up!
http://googlified.com/2006uploading-pictures

hoachi your blog and my blog somehow use the same theme

http://blog.sankaranand.com

but i want you to praise for your fantastic header idea....

I purchased the 6 GB upgrade last week when I got to about 222 MB on my Web Albums account. As of this morning, I show:

You are currently using 222 MB (3%) of your 6394 MB.

Tony

How come you purchased last week. The link as not there for a very long time.

>How come you purchased last week. The link as not there for a very long time.

The upgrade option is only available in the US right now. Even then, the link was missing for me for about 4 days until it came back last Monday and I made my purchase.

Tony

Thanks Sankar ;)
Yes, it's US only, for now.
"This option(upgrade) is only available to US addresses at this time."