Google has posted a 30-minute hangout discussing the new YouTube design. Four Googlers discuss the changes and answer user-submitted questions. As with most redesigns of major products, there has been a fair amount of backlash from users about the changes. …

Google has put out a new Google TV developers Office Hours hangout. The video features a developer demoing a gesture-based interface for Google TV. Earlier this month, Google TV received a big update with Voice Search and PrimeTime Guide. More …

Google announced today that it has extended the limit for the number of people you can invite to a Google+ hangout from 10 to 15. “It’s still simple to get the most out of your hangouts: schedule a hangout in …

Google has uploaded another Android Developers Office Hours hangout. It features the EMEA-based Android Developer Releations team (from the Google TV Team) answering questions. As usual, it’s about an hour long.

Google just announced some new privacy functions for Google+ that deal with how users report abusive content within the stream as well as abuse within Hangouts. Here are the changes, as announced by Google’s Pavni Diwanji on Google+: Reporting content …

Google has launched some new updates to Google+ Hangouts on the desktop. These include a new sidebar, new notifications and improved app management. Users can choose whether to show or hide the sidebar. ” The most important part of a …

Google has been posting a lot of hangouts to its developer YouTube channel lately, and this week, they uploaded one for Google TV app developers. If you fall into this category, or are considering testing the Google TV waters, you …

Last week, Google announced that a big update to the Google Play Developer Console (demoed at Google I/O earlier this year) is now available to everyone. This makes it easier for developers to track the success of their apps by …

Google has shared a recent Hangout on Air discussing Google Maps Engine. In the video, you get a half hour discussion about the technology, including a demo and explanation from product manager Dylan Lorimer and Envista CEO Marc Fagan. If …

The Google Places API has been seeing a constant barrage of updates this year. It could be a great new source of revenue for Google, and it’s great for businesses (except for this guy). That’s why it’s super important for …

Google has is now conducting regular Google+ Hangout Office Hours videos for Google Cloud Storage. Google shared this video about CNAME Redirection and Website Configuration, which gives you the ability to serve an entire site directly from Google Cloud storage. …

Android developer advocate Tony Chan and Anirudh Dewani from the Android team recently hosted this Android Developer Lab hangout, so if you’re developing for Google’s operating system, you may wish to check it out. It’s a thirty-minute video, but there’s …

Google has uploaded a Google Developers hangout from Sydney about maps. Googlers Paul and Chris talk ab out their favorite maps, why they like them, and how to find cool maps. It’s about a half hour long (which isn’t too …

Google continues to push Google+ Hangouts capabilities to many of their products, and the latest integration is with Google Calendar. Now, you can add a Hangout to any event on your calendar and access it with a single click. From …

Ever wish you had a chance to sit in on one of Google’s Webmaster Central Office Hours hangouts, but just can’t find the time, or they just to don’t correspond well with your schedule? Luckily, Google sometimes makes them available …

Google+ is getting a new experimental feature, which lets you send private messages to other users inside of Hangouts. The feature is the product of Google interns Mairin Chesney and Anthony Tordillos, who announced the update in a Google+ post …

Google has released an update for the Google+ app for Android, which has five new features. First, teens can now create and join hangouts from their mobile devices. Secondly, you can now join Hangouts On Air from your mobile device. …

Can you smell it? The smell of beer, pizza, and freshly-washed team jerseys. It’s almost football season, baby. And with the start of the NFL season in September comes the start of fantasy football. Soon, millions of fans will crunch …

Google wants to make your video communications within Gmail even better. Starting today, they’re rolling out Google+ Hangouts integration which, according to them, will “deliver higher reliability and enhanced quality” to your chats. From the Gmail blog: Unlike the old …

Hey Google+ users, I hope you’re ready to Hangout on your iPad. That’s because Google has just updated their iOS app to add support for the Apple tablet. Having previously only offered Google+ on the iPhone, users are bound to …

Google is working on making Google+ more accessible. The company announced that it is launching a new app called Hangout Captions to help inegrate live transcription into Google+ Hangouts. The following update from Google just hit Google+: Hangout Captions26 minutes …