I found this session fascinating. I have used Google hangout only a couple of times for a group project for school. I thought it was pretty cool but never really stopped to think about he possibilities.
The developers talked about a Hangout as being the new way to do social. Mimicking real life but having everyone actually there where they can be seen as if everyone was at a conference table. Hangouts have been used to give cooking demos, guitar lessons and to show power point presentations.
Google hangout is being used more and more for business collaboration so the Docs app was added so colleagues could share documents, live in real time.
The Google hangout API can be used to:
- build activities inside hangouts
- build enhancements for live conversations
- bring Google + hangout to your app
Examples for companies that have incorporated the Google Hangout API are:
- Aces Poker, which lets everyone sit around a table and play poker and when it is your turn, your camera displays you in the big center square for everyone to see your "poker face".
- Scoot and Doodle - where a group of people can sit around the same canvas and draw, play pictionary or make a collaborative work of art.
To create an application using Google + hangout, go to http://developers.google.com/+/hangouts and start new application.
Google + is free, web based software that could truly change the way businesses conduct meetings, the way presentations are made, the way friends meet, the way students ask for help and so on. The possibilities seem endless.
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