Hello was a service by Picasa that let users share pictures "like you're sitting side-by-side." Launched August 1, 2002; shut down May 15, 2008 — it lived 5 years. One of 7 Google products killed in 2008. Picasa is a discontinued, cross-platform image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, integrated with a now defunct photo-sharing website, originally created by a company named Lifescape in 2002. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the word casa and "pic" for pictures. Wiki link Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).