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Maker Camp brings DIY fun to teens via Google+ Hangouts

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Maker Camp brings DIY fun to teens via Google Hangouts

Summer camp doesn't have to mean poorly ventilated cabins, boring activities and terrible food. In fact, put the concept in the hands of Google and Make, and there's not even a need to leave the comfort of your own home. The two have teamed up to deliver Maker Camp on Google+, a six week summer program designed to encourage kids to embrace their inner maker. The sessions will run every weekday starting July 16th. On Mondays through Thursdays a new set of instructions for the teen participants to tackle will be posted on Google+, then, in the afternoon, a counselor (often one of Make's own editors) will hold a Hangout to discuss the project and let the campers share their photos, videos and thoughts. Every Friday Make will host "field trips" via Hangouts. There's no need to register and no fee, the only requirements are that you be between the ages of 13 and 18, and have a Google+ account. Check out the videos after the break and the source links for more info.

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Maker Camp brings DIY fun to teens via Google+ Hangouts originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 01:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google+ for iPad hits the App Store, invites you to Hangout with your Apple slate

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As promised way back in late-June at I/O, Google+ now has has its very own fully iPad-supported app. Available now via iTunes, the app offers up some tablet-centric features, like the ability to drag posts from your stream for sharing, streaming Hangouts to a TV via AirPlay and expanding posts with a pinch to add comments. The updated Google+ iPhone app, meanwhile, lets users create and manage Google+ Events. The app can be downloaded now in the source link below.

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Google+ for iPad hits the App Store, invites you to Hangout with your Apple slate originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google+ adds YouTube party app, lets you inflict cat videos on everyone

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Google adds YouTube party app, lets you inflict cat videos on everyone

Someone at Google must like Airtime as much as we do, because it just added a roughly equivalent YouTube party mode to Google+ Hangouts. As long as everyone has the web app running, they can share individual videos or whole playlists that run in sync. Any set of videos is shareable through Google+ or YouTube proper. Voice chat, mercifully, flips to a push-to-talk requirement to prevent friends from talking over your favorite clip. While there's no accounting for taste in what you play, Google can at least promise immediate, worldwide support for your group cat video sessions.

Google+ adds YouTube party app, lets you inflict cat videos on everyone originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google+ Events leaks out through Google Calendar, will let your knitting circle schedule a Hangout

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Google has been on another one of its Google+ feature addition streaks lately, and it's so eager to please that it's spoiling other features early. More than a few people visiting Google Calendar have been given an introduction to "Events in Google+" in recent hours despite the extra component (and its splash page) being absent. From what we know, Events will provide the obvious Facebook-like option to create and track events among Google+ circles, but it will also let organizers slot in a Hangout video chat in advance as well as pool together photos and videos associated with an event. The Google+ app for Android has even been showing an empty button that's speculated to be a dedicated Events section. Google hasn't sent any official word as to when Events will go live, although we suspect it won't be long before everyone from photographers through to grandmothers knitting scarves can use Google+ to coalesce.

Google+ Events leaks out through Google Calendar, will let your knitting circle schedule a Hangout originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 May 2012 11:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google+ on Android gets its turn at a UI remake, extra Hangout and photo features in the bargain

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Did you see the Google+ 2.0 update for iPhone and wonder if Google's attention had drifted away from its own baby? Don't fret, as the Android app has just been given similarly loving treatment. The interface shares the reworked stream look that we saw on iOS while keeping the swipe-to-switch category filters that Google+ has used from the start. There's even small rewards for having to watch your iPhone friends go first: you can now start a Hangout video chat from the main menu, get ringing Hangout notifications, download photos directly from conversations and edit your posts after the fact. The new look has already proved polarizing, but if you're the sort who revels in the purity of a Google social network running on a Google platform, you can now try the overhaul for yourself.

Google+ on Android gets its turn at a UI remake, extra Hangout and photo features in the bargain originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 24 May 2012 10:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google+ lets you broadcast your Hangouts

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You've gotten so good at hanging out ever since Google+ launched last year, isn't about time you started broadcasting your act? After a good deal of time in a limited rollout, the social network is offering up its Hangouts On Air feature to everyone. Now you can broadcast yourself on Google+ or YouTube. On Air lets you monitor views and record and re-share the content after the fact. Get down with the explanatory video after the break.

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Google+ lets you broadcast your Hangouts originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 May 2012 06:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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