Google Media Server is the company's latest enhancement to its Google Desktop suite. Basically, it is software that allows users to view content from the Internet on a television.
Unlike many other media server software applications, it can support videos from YouTube and photos from Picasa Web Albums - both Google properties.
It runs using Google Desktop technology - e.g., Desktop gadgets for the administration tool and Google Desktop Search to locate media files. "All you need is a PC running Google Desktop and a UPnP-enabled device such as a PlayStation 3, wrote Software Engineer David Garcia.
