Picasa was an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos. Launched October 15, 2002; shut down October 9, 2015 — it lived 12 years. One of 14 Google products killed in 2015. 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).