Monday, May 12, 2008

Google offers YouTube video software for Macs

Google has released basic software called Vidnik

that lets Mac OS X users record video with a Webcam or built-in camera, trim its length, add tags and a title, then upload it to YouTube.

The software also can be used to upload other videos to the company's video-sharing site, and other editing software can be used on the videos taken by Vidnik, said David Phillip Oster of Google's Mac team in a blog posting.

The software is among a host of Mac applications the company has produced. (Another interesting one is Visigami, which lets people search for images on Flickr, Picasa, and Google Images and use the results as an animated screen saver.)

Google has an increasing stable of software that runs on people's computers--Google Desktop is one good example--and is working on mobile-phone applications, too, through its Android project. But don't be confused by all this attention to what's known as client software: the company's higher priority is to make the Internet the application foundation of choice.

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