Google+ finally rolls out Hangouts on Air to everyone

Google+ Hangouts on Air is finally out of beta testing, now available to Google+ users worldwide.
Google’s live video broadcasting feature, Google+ Hangouts on Air has finally completed its beta testing and is now available to Google+ users worldwide.
Google+ Hangouts on Air was first introduced last year to a ‘limited number of users’ and was subjected to several weeks of testing from a number of hand-picked ‘content creators’.
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YouTube is now going beyond the usual by offering its videos on live-streaming.
The site’s executives unveiled YouTube Live on Friday, featuring integrated live-streaming capabilities into the YouTube platform.
In its blog, YouTube announced:
“Today we’re announcing the initial roll out of YouTube Live, which will integrate live streaming capabilities and discovery tools directly into the YouTube platform for the first time. This begins with a new YouTube Live browse page (www.youtube.com/live), where you can always find the most compelling live events happening on YouTube and add events to your calendar. Subscribe to your favorite YouTube live-streaming partners to be notified of upcoming live streams on your customized homepage.”
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YouTube brings the hottest 100 video everyday for the viewers to watch.
Finally, YouTube has announced its newest feature. A new section called the YouTube Charts.
The feature will update you on the latest trending video. More or less it is like the Billboard Hit Chart that displays the top 100 videos of the world. As if counting down which video made it to number 1.
We are thinking that it would be a great competition between Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, as well as other non-music related videos that are really starts the trends on the big tube.
The YouTube Charts filter top videos via categories. You can view the videos who got the most number of views, the one with most like and the one being subscribed the most over the past days, weeks, months and all time. You will get to see the top 100 videos of each category. This means the YouTube Charts will feature 900 videos and specific channels every day.
The “most subscribed” section will give us the individual and production channel popularity at the given time.
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