Picasa is hardly useless, and fills a spot I can&#x27;t think of a direct equivalent I can use to replace it.<p>Google talk was perfect, light weight and pleasingly free of the cruft and crap that alternatives like skype insist on loading themselves with.  Now replaced by hangouts which has an appalling visual design, and has no desktop app (No, I don&#x27;t <i>always</i> have my browser open, or want to).<p>Google Reader...  etc.<p>The list is getting horribly long for killed things that are neither useless, or little used.  Oh, and it seems like a little while before they run out of money.  I imagine they could keep Picasa and talk supported and hosted until the heat death of the universe, and still have a few pennies in the bank.