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Services that Google announced will be discontinued in 2012
by Marc Bennetts January 23, 2012
Edited by Joseph Earnest
Newscast Media SAN JOSE — If you've ever used Picnik.com, a quick online solution for picture editing in the absence of photo editing programs such as Adobe Photoshop then you might understand how convenient and practical it is to have such online application.
Google, however, will shut this service down on April 19, 2012, in addition to other less known products such as:
- Google Message Continuity; an E-mail backup product for businesses
- Needlebase; a data management platform, (June 1)
- Social Graph API; info. about public connections for developers, (April 20)
- Urchin--online web analytics, (March 31).
The criteria Google is using to make such decisions lies in "taking a hard look at products that replicate other features," as Google's blog reads, and seeing if they "haven't achieved the promise we had hoped for or can't be properly integrated into the overall Google experience."
As for Picnik, acquired by Google in 2010, Google will have the Picnik team "continue creating photo-editing magic across Google products." Google stated that users who previously subscribed for the premium service, the company will send a full refund in the coming weeks.
These changes may have caused a little bit more than frowns among numerous active users to which Dave Girouard, VP of Product Management at Google stated, "Changing products that people love is hard too. But we're excited to focus on creating a beautifully simple, intuitive user experience across Google -an experience that will change the lives of millions of people."
YouTube Changes
YouTube
is also announcing that the older profiles will automatically be converted
to the new, more annoying layout. These changes will automatically
take effect on March 7, 2012, and users who already haven't switched to
the newer layout will then have to reorganize their videos. Add
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