Google July 13 blended its Picnik Web photo editing technology with Picasa Web Albums. The move comes just two weeks after Facebook began testing new tagging technology on Facebook photos. – Google July 13 said it has blended Picnik, the Web
photo editing technology it acquired in March, with Picasa Web Albums.
This means users using Picasa can click the edit choice from the Edit drop-down menu or from the
Picnik icon to add funny comments to their photos in thought clouds, or add
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Google on March 1 bought Web-based photo-editing specialist Picnik for an undisclosed sum, adding another cloud computing tool to its arsenal. Picnik lets users import their photos from Picasa Web Albums, Flickr and the other aforementioned sites and make changes to them. Google will be working hard to integrate Picnik within Google and will add new features in the future. Picnic boasts 20 employees, who will join Google’s Seattle offices. One of these new employees is Picnik CEO Jonathan Sposato, who joined the Picnik team after selling his company Phatbits to Google.
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Google on March 1 agreed to acquire Web-based photo-editing
specialist Picnik
for an undisclosed sum, acquiring yet another startup created by a fomer Google
employee.
The Web is full of photo-sharing tools and destinations,
including Google’s own Picasa Web albums, Flickr, Photo…
