You can now add Picasa to the list of iPhone (and presumably the iPod Touch)-optimized services that Google is rolling out the door of late. On Wednesday, the company announced that it decided to wave the magic mobile OSX wand over its popular photo-sharing site after discovering that there were “some very cool AJAXy features,” which were designed only (gasp) with a “desktop web-browsing experience in mind.” Not for long!

As Joe Walnes, a software engineer at Google writes on the company’s mobile blog:

Today, I’m happy to tell you that we’ve just released this new iPhone interface for Picasa. After you go to Picasa on your iPhone and log in, you can quickly see all your albums that you’ve uploaded to Picasa web. If you click on any of the albums, you can get a full view of your picture with comments from your friends. Or you can click on Slideshow, sit back and watch the pictures scroll. You can also search for photos in your album or through community photos. Finally, with one of my favorite features, you can view your friends’ albums through favorites.

[via blog.wired.com]

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Helio has just released a custom-built application that enables you to watch, record, upload, and share YouTube videos on your Helio Ocean phone. Now, you can really interact with the YouTube community on your Helio Ocean by rating videos, posting text comments, sharing videos with friends, saving videos to your Favorites and Playlists, and subscribing to new channels. You can even let everyone know where you shot a video by attaching a “geo-tag,” which includes the GPS coordinates for the location where you shot the video.

[via googlemobile.blogspot.com]

Google and RIM have been working together rather well as of late. A recent update to the integrated BlackBerry Google Chat client in October brought a host of nice features with a great UI, and the Gmail / BIS integration just keeps getting better with BES-like syncing features that make using Gmail with your Berry an incredibly pleasant experience. Just when you thought things couldn’t get any better, Google dropped the latest bomb. Google Calender is now fully syncable with your on-board BlackBerry datebook. Simply download a small program from Google, enter all of the relevant details, and you’re as good as synced. Best of all, as with most Google services, this won’t cost you a penny. Hit the link and enjoy!

[via  Google]