Only two days after the inital release the first update of picasaView comes along. If your WordPress installation is on a server with no CURL and disabled remote access for the PHP function file_get_contents() it’s now possible to connect to picasaweb throught sockets. This should work in most cases. If that’s also disabled you really should consider changing your provider 
The admin backend is now telling which connection settings are possible and more exact error messages were given in case of a problem.
Of couse there are still many things missing. The two biggest things are paging in the album detail view and the inclusion of single images instead of an whole album. So stay tuned!
