March 22, 2007
Picnik
Full-window Flash image editing:
I used Picnik to resize this image and create the image above. What's cool is that the entire process occurred almost entirely online. The only "analog" bit was downloading the results to my desktop for upload to my site. If I weren't too lazy to sign up for a Flickr account, then the whole shebang could have been done online.
There are some really nice touches in the UI. What I found really impressive was the "auto-recovery" of the most recent editing session when the site was re-opened. I gotta hand it to the designers. This is a beautiful, clean app. I especially like their choice of grass as a banner background ;).
Picnik was founded by Mike Harrington, co-founder of Valve, Darrin Massena, and Jonathan Sposato, who sold his widget company PhatBits to Google in 2005. All three are Seattle-area former Microsofties.
Next? has an interview with the founders. SolutionWatch has an article with more details.
Posted by Devon at March 22, 2007 09:28 PM