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You can now have "YouTube parties" in Google+ Hangouts

39 points by raldi 14y ago

arnoldwh 14y ago
Good to see more ways to share internet experiences with real-life people. Wasn't meebo working on some sort of web check-in thing? Wonder if there's something in the works around that, beyond just their hello advertising bar.
snprbob86 14y ago
I've been saying since the start: It's somewhat obvious that Google+ Hangouts has the potential to become the internet equivalent of Microsoft's Xbox Live Party system. As they begin to flesh out their platform, Hangouts could be a very cool and very popular real-time group coordination system used by many web products.
hobin 14y ago
Ah, yes. Now we can all experience the wonderfulness that comes with these parties: http://thedoghousediaries.com/1242 http://thedoghousediaries.com/1242 I'm (partially) kidding, of course. Interesting feature, and interested to see how this is going to work out for them.
- roryokane 14y ago
  See also the xkcd comic “YouTube Parties”: http://xkcd.com/920/ http://xkcd.com/920/. It’s similar to the comic you linked, but was written independently. In my one experience of a YouTube party (in real life, not on Google+), it went exactly as depicted in those comics. I disliked the party more than I enjoyed it.
idonthack 14y ago
hasn't this been a feature for a long time now?
ricksta 14y ago
hangout is pretty much the only good thing about google+
- drivebyacct2 14y ago
  Can we please skip the "I don't use Google+ so it sucks" meme? Great, thanks.
  - paganel 14y ago
    Stupid and honest question, but why would this be a meme? On a personal level I very much dislike Google Plus because they did spam me at least a couple of times with emails like "hey, X and Y and Z did that on Google+ last week (things totally unrelated to me) you should check it out!". If that's not desperation than I don't know how else could it be called.
    - esrauch 14y ago
      I get the same emails from Twitter.
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kristopolous 14y ago
I've really been working hard on this idea too: http://chatwithvideos.com http://chatwithvideos.com ... I don't know if anyone has done it right yet. I even used the same terminology.
gcb 14y ago
heh. yahoo had that on live.yahoo.com a long time ago. of course they killed the team that did it.
teraflop 14y ago
Huh -- so it's like Synchtube (http://www.synchtube.com/ http://www.synchtube.com/), except it only supports Youtube and you can't be anonymous.
DanBlake 14y ago
We have done this on http://tinychat.com http://tinychat.com for a long time. Its a very liked feature.
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redact207 14y ago
This would be great - if anyone used Google+
covercash 14y ago
There was a project at the last Philadelphia Startup Weekend that did something similar - http://tubelr.com http://tubelr.com

39 points by raldi 14y ago

Good to see more ways to share internet experiences with real-life people. Wasn't meebo working on some sort of web check-in thing? Wonder if there's something in the works around that, beyond just their hello advertising bar.

snprbob86 14y ago

I've been saying since the start: It's somewhat obvious that Google+ Hangouts has the potential to become the internet equivalent of Microsoft's Xbox Live Party system. As they begin to flesh out their platform, Hangouts could be a very cool and very popular real-time group coordination system used by many web products.

hobin 14y ago

Ah, yes. Now we can all experience the wonderfulness that comes with these parties: http://thedoghousediaries.com/1242 http://thedoghousediaries.com/1242 I'm (partially) kidding, of course. Interesting feature, and interested to see how this is going to work out for them.

roryokane 14y ago
See also the xkcd comic “YouTube Parties”: http://xkcd.com/920/ http://xkcd.com/920/. It’s similar to the comic you linked, but was written independently. In my one experience of a YouTube party (in real life, not on Google+), it went exactly as depicted in those comics. I disliked the party more than I enjoyed it.

idonthack 14y ago

hasn't this been a feature for a long time now?

ricksta 14y ago

hangout is pretty much the only good thing about google+

drivebyacct2 14y ago
Can we please skip the "I don't use Google+ so it sucks" meme? Great, thanks.
- paganel 14y ago
  Stupid and honest question, but why would this be a meme? On a personal level I very much dislike Google Plus because they did spam me at least a couple of times with emails like "hey, X and Y and Z did that on Google+ last week (things totally unrelated to me) you should check it out!". If that's not desperation than I don't know how else could it be called.
  - esrauch 14y ago
    I get the same emails from Twitter.

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kristopolous 14y ago

I've really been working hard on this idea too: http://chatwithvideos.com http://chatwithvideos.com ... I don't know if anyone has done it right yet. I even used the same terminology.

gcb 14y ago

heh. yahoo had that on live.yahoo.com a long time ago. of course they killed the team that did it.

teraflop 14y ago

Huh -- so it's like Synchtube (http://www.synchtube.com/ http://www.synchtube.com/), except it only supports Youtube and you can't be anonymous.

DanBlake 14y ago

We have done this on http://tinychat.com http://tinychat.com for a long time. Its a very liked feature.

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redact207 14y ago

This would be great - if anyone used Google+

covercash 14y ago

There was a project at the last Philadelphia Startup Weekend that did something similar - http://tubelr.com http://tubelr.com