Google Kills More Services, Open Sources Sky Map

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 21, 2012 @05:43AM from the endings-and-beginnings dept.

alphadogg writes "Google is continuing to weed out its services and on Friday announced it will shut down Picnik, Google Message Continuity and Needlebase and make changes to some other services. Google acquired Seattle-based Picnik in 2010, saying it would integrate the photo editing service with its own Picasa. 'We're retiring the service on April 19, 2012, so the Picnik team can continue creating photo-editing magic across Google products,' Dave Girouard, vice president of product management for Google, wrote in a blog post Friday." A positive change to come out of this is that Google is open-sourcing Sky Map, and will be collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University to continue development.

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How long until they kill google search :p by youn · 2012-01-21 05:49 · Score: 4, Funny

at this rate... this may be quicker than I thought possible

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Re:Cloud Services vs. Desktop Apps by kwerle · 2012-01-21 05:52 · Score: 4, Funny

Yeah, it's a shame that you're 100% locked in to their free service, there is no warning, and you can't get your data out, or use any alternatives.
Oh, wait...