Google Video PC only (for now?)

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This really shouldn’t surprise me, but Google’s just-announced 1 has continued their tradition of being Mac-unfriendly at launch.

Google Video Uploader Installer.exe

At this point, they don’t even provide a backup web-upload option — just the Windows-only uploader application. Pity, that, as Ourmedia.org seems to be going through some growing pains (I uploaded a video three days ago, and it’s yet to actually appear in a useable form on the site), and I’m looking forward to being able to host some of my more bandwidth-intensive experiments on servers more powerful than mine.

Still, I’ll hope that this is just a temporary thing, and as with Gmail and Google Maps, Safari/Mac OS X support will come along before too long. In the meantime, though, I’ll just have to keep poking along as I have been until now.

Update: As of May 18th, they now support Mac (and *nix) uploading thanks to a Java-based uploader.

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