Maurice Doucet - ex Lifescape/Picasa CTO

According to Maurice Doucet's CV at planetmoe.com, he is currently the CTO at Triton Imaging Inc.

However, from Oct 2002 – May 2003, he was Chief Technology Officer at Lifescape Solutions, Inc.

He describes his work there thus:

Lifescape was an Idealab funded startup and the creator of Picasa, a consumer level digital image management product. Responsibilities included:
• Management of cross-functional disciplines including software engineers, web developers, technical writers and quality assurance technicians.
• Management of the operations systems engineering team in the Boston office.
• Management of the software development team in Los Angeles.
• Responsibility for product release feature definition.
• Responsibility for partner relationship management.
• Technical leadership for Picasa ‘plug-in’ specification.
• Participation in idealab! Board level funding discussions.
• Press contact for corporate interviews (i.e. CNBC)

So even back then, Picasa had a plugin API - so I wonder why can't Google publish it, so that developers can get to work on producing companion applications to work alongside Picasa?