While everyone and their dog are introducing their iPad apps to the world, let’s take a look at a company launching something for that other – slightly more open – platform called the World Wide Web.

We profiled Dropico, an easy-to-use drag and drop photo sharing app, before when it was still in private beta and people seemed to dig the concept a lot. Well now, you can try it out for yourself.

When you register for and log on to Dropico, you can select a number of popular services that allow you to share pictures, including Flickr, Facebook, several Twitter photo sharing apps, MySpace, Photobucket, Picasa and more (others can request to be included). When you connect to these services inside the main Dropico interface, you can view your photos and albums in separate frames, but also drag and drop them from one to the other.

Dropico refers to this as a “cloud to cloud” service in the sense that it makes it easy for people to organize their photos and albums across multiple environments from a single location. The company also allows third-party developers to build services on top of its platform – one obvious addition that’s already live is integration with Pixlr for on-the-fly photo editing.

Finally, Dropico also offers a white-labeled version of its platform, which the company says should appeal to storage and printing service providers, and a hosted solution specifically tailored for mobile operators.

Dropico shared a couple of upcoming features with us – the next version will include a stream of photo updates from your friends across different social networking sites and photo sharing services, the ability to selectively share albums with others, and support for drag and drop video and document sharing.

The company is also working on an iPhone client and yes, an application for the iPad.

Give it a whirl and tell us what you think.

As we noted this morning, Google isn’t wasting any time in responding to user criticism about Buzz.  Now they’ve rolled out another set of changes to further address Buzz’s privacy issues. The biggest change involves the automatic follow system: it’s now being switched to a suggestion model, where Google will present you with a list of friends it thinks you’d like to follow, but gives you a chance to deselect them before you start using the service.

That’s a pretty big change — when Buzz launched four days ago, one of its selling points was that it took no work on the user’s part to get started, because Buzz would automatically follow the people you interact with most on Gmail. Of course, that isn’t always a good thing — there are plenty of cases when you wouldn’t want people to know who you’d been communicating with. After an initial backlash Google made it easier to hide which users you were following, but now they’re ditching the auto-follow model entirely. Fortunately it only takes a minute to go through the suggestions, so it’s not much of a hurdle.

New users will see a screen like the one above, and Google’s post says that existing Buzz users will be shown a version of this friend selection screen in the next few weeks to confirm that they’re comfortable with everyone they’re following. The service is also going to stop automatically connecting Google Reader and Picasa albums to Buzz accounts, though those options will still be available.

Finally, Google is adding a Buzz section to Gmail’s Settings. Why this wasn’t there from the start is beyond me — before now, if you wanted to adjust your Buzz settings you had to go to your Google account page, which made very little sense because most people use Buzz from Gmail.

Earlier today, Google made yet another change to Buzz’s privacy settings by fixing a bug that could cause users to inadvertently expose their friends’ private settings.

All of these are good changes for Buzz, and I’m optimistic about its future, but I can’t help but wonder how they all made it through months of internal testing.