Google’s official Picasa blog made it’s first post in more than four years on Friday… to announce that Google will begin the process of shutting the service down on May 1st. Picasa is a pretty good image management service, but Google Photos is better in just about every way, and that’s what most people are using these days, so Picasa is more or less a redundancy at this point. That being said, Google Photos isn’t exactly the perfect replacement, so there’s definitely going to be a few people that feel screwed over by Picasa’s passing, but it’s the kind of thing you have to be prepared for with Google, just ask a (former) Google Reader user.
