startupbug.com - The 2005 email that spawned Picnik, Google's latest buy http://www.startupbug.com/startup-news-and-stories/the-2005-email-that-spawned-picnik-googles-latest-buy/ Entrepreneurial ideas can strike anytime, anywhere. For Picnik founders Mike Harrington and Darrin Massena -- who announced the sale of their online photo editing startup to Google on Monday -- that moment hit on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005 at 10:56 p.m. That's when Massena sent an email to Harrington with the subject line: "Internet Photo Editing." Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:27:21 CST en