Thursday, July 7, 2011

Google Changes Blogger and Picasa names

After launching the Google + and promote a change of style in several of its products, Google is preparing for the next week to rename the well-known and popular Blogger and Picasa to Google  Blog and Google Photo, respectively.


The change is part of the web giant's efforts for the public launch of its newly launched social network - what should happen at the end of July - by integrating several of its products within a "package".

Blogger: screen interface reminds blog posts from Google Docs
According to Mashable, a number of other services the company should go through the same change, but YouTube will remain the same - because Google Videos officially ended its activities during the month of May.

To date Google had a policy of not changing the names of services, especially famous ones have become part of their service offering, but other less famous sites such as Writely, JoSpot and GrandCentral, for example, have been renamed to Google Docs, Google Sites and Google Voice after duly purchased and incorporated.

Founded in August 1999 by Pyra Labs company - which had among its founders Evan Williams, who went on to further fame and fortune by opening the Twitter - Blogger was bought by Google in February 2003. Picasa already started its activities under the supervision of IdeaLab company in 2002 and two years later was acquired by Google.