Google+ Hangouts Go Mobile & Get More Collaborative

Google Plus Google+ is making its public debut Tuesday with a bevy of life-inspired updates to Hangouts, the social network’s group-video-chat-with-a-twist feature.

Google+ users can now join Hangouts from their Android devices. (Google says iOS support is coming soon.) Select users can turn video chats into public broadcasts. Plus, users can also share their screens, use a sketchpad to doodle with participants, collaborate on or present a Google Doc, and join or create Named Hangouts.

[via Mashable]

Cooking Classes, Live on Google+

Google Hangouts, a feature of Google+, Google’s new social network, lets people video-chat, watch YouTube clips together and even take turns belting out rounds of karaoke. Bits Blog reports on Lee Allison's Google+ Cooking School, an hour-long cooking classes conducted over video-chat.