Aug. 7, 2011 at 9:58am
Broadcasting G+ hangouts in YouTube/live

From the Blog Herald

“Google+ is now allowing users of their ten personHangouts video chat program to watch live streaming videos together using popular video streaming service YouTube which is also owned by Google Inc. 

Five steps

  • Start a Hangouts session in Google+ and invite your contacts to join you. 
  • In a separate browser tab, go to YouTube.com/Live and select a live stream
  • Copy the YouTube video I.D. of the selected live stream. (Just click on the share link below the video. You’ll get to see a link like - http://youtu.be/XXXXXXXX – the cryptic code after the slash is the video I.D. 
  • Switch back to hangouts, open the video tab and search for the I.D. 
  • Click play, and you’re all set.”