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

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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.

Ah, yes. Now we can all experience the wonderfulness that comes with these parties: 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.

See also the xkcd comic “YouTube Parties”: 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

hangout is pretty much the only good thing about google+

Can we please skip the "I don't use Google+ so it sucks" meme? Great, thanks.

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.

I get the same emails from Twitter.

This would be great - if anyone used Google+

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

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