The problems with Picasa Web Albums

I pay Google for my Picasa Web Album storage.

For this I get:

Picasa Help - What are your technical requirements for uploading videos?

Video uploading is only available through Picasa.

and no status updates or acknowledgement that iPhoto 2008 has broken the Picasa Web Album iPhoto plug-in.

I'm definitely feeling like a second class citizen on Google's Picasa web albums.

It doesn't help that Google Video is out of order today as well - no uploads (server failure).

.Mac is looking better these days.