I’m pleased to say that SayClip has made its way onto Mac OS X. This felt like a natural extension of the platform that started on iOS and the web, moved to Android, and now is part of OS X. The app really has seamless integration to users’ desktop screens because it runs off the menu bar similar to other apps, such as Dropbox. While it is running in the background, the app icon will be dark until you receive a “SayClip” from one of your contacts, at which point it will light up, just like the image above. This is a subtle indicator of a new message which users can respond to on their own time.

The app is quite dead simple to use and there is absolutely no learning curve. In fact, I believe a 5 year old could use it if they tried.

Here is an example of how the app runs, when there are no new messages:

Here is how it looks when there is a new message:

I think the great thing about being able to use SayClip from your desktop or laptop is mainly the ease of use, but the whole experience is much faster than using it from a mobile device. Uploading a message doesn’t take long at all, viewing a message, etc- nothing takes more than a few seconds to do. Since SayClip allows people to group message each other, this is a perfect tool for families to share special moments or even just say “hi” more often, privately- knowing only their recipients will be able to view the content and not anyone on the internet!

The app has been in private beta for the past few weeks and was being used across various continents. Users across these continents have expressed this has changed the way they’ve stayed in touch with family recently. No more waiting for those once a month Skype sessions with 8-12 hour time differences. No more expensive phone calls overseas. Even within the nation, people have expressed the ease of sending a message has made them kind of addicted to the service since they can send a simple “hello” while they are checking emails at work.

So I’ve given you my spiel, now go download SayClip for Mac OS X and let me know what YOU think! Head over to SayClip.com and click the ‘now available on Mac’ badge to download. By the way, it’s free. And there are no ads.

P.S. A lot of companies have forgotten about the desktop! Every tech company that matters has an iOS app and probably an Android app, but many have forgot that people spend the most time behind the screen of their computer when it comes to gadgets. This is one of the main reasons we’ve created a native SayClip Mac OS X app :)

A lot of you may know, I recently started SayClip. SayClip allows users to privately message their contacts through video. If you want to know why I created SayClip, you can read that here. You can download SayClip on iTunes here.

In this post, I’m going to give some thoughts on the social world.

It seems just about every new product that is launched in today’s world that relates to “social networking,” deals with some form of public communication. Whether it is sharing photos, videos, or just text, most things are open for the world to eavesdrop on. Social as we know it today, is screwed up. Being social with the world isn’t normal, and non-tech people that are over 20 are usually hesitant to tweeting their life secrets away. In all honesty, if you think about it, there’s some things that you could care less if 100 people other than the person you want to share a certain something with sees certain content, but quite frankly, there’s a lot more that you would say in a private situation. Lets take Skype for example, if you had a Skype conversation with your friend, you would be more direct and might share a lot more interesting things going on in your life, than you would on a UStream.tv stream.

This is why I am taking a highly private approach to SayClip. Being social is one thing, but being genuinely social is another. You might have 1000 Facebook friends, but who are your real friends that you can call in the middle of the night if your car breaks down to come pick you up? It’s connecting with those people that I want to enable, on a global scale.

So far, the app has been downloaded all across the world in a lot of different countries. This is something I hope increases communication between families or friends that live on different continents, something that gives a little substance to a message, instead of black and white text. Even saying a quick “hello” through a video clip is worth more than a text message saying “hello, how are you?” There is a web platform coming to SayClip in the next few days, which will allow people to communicate with app users, if they don’t have an iOS device. Of course the Android app will be made available shortly as well.

I’m making the world more social, in a private way.