Looks like the picnic is formally more than. Google introduced today on its website that it will be retiring the picnic-themed image editing support Picnik inAprilof this yr.
The news arrives about a week after Flickr declared it will be dumping Picnik, which now looks like foreshadowing of the information that was launched nowadays.
If you use Picnik for your modifying wants, you can download your photos as a zip file with Picnik Takeout for the time being. You can also move your photographs more than to your Google+ webpage till the support shuts down on April 19.
You can even now use Picnik to edit photographs for the up coming handful of months and Picnik premium is entirely free of charge until finally the website shuts down. Latest premium account holders will acquire a full refund of their subscription fees.
Google will also be laying a number of much more services to relaxation as a component of its New 12 months’s resolutions. Google Concept Continuity (GMC), Needlebase, and Urchin will all be retired this 12 months. Google Message Continuity is an email disaster recovery service for enterprise buyers that has been little by little changed with Google Applications considering that it was obtained by Google. Consumers will be able to keep on to use GMC until finally their contracts stop, and will be encouraged to make the switch to Google Apps afterwards.
Needlebase is a platform for attaining, analyzing, and publishing knowledge to the World wide web. Google will eliminate off the services at the start of June and may possibly integrate its attributes into other Google goods. Urchin, which Google acquired in 2005, will shut down in March 2012. The services served corporations deal with their world wide web site visitors and marketing and advertising with analytics.
Picnic table photo via KTDEE….popping in and out /Flickr
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