Google+ seems determined to recruit the best concepts and incorporate them into its private entrails. Recently, the Google+ team has just unleashed a new feat. From now on, Google+ users will be able to record their own video status updates. Google+ already offered the option of uploading videos from cell phones and sharing from other external sites like YouTube or Vimeo.
Forget all that now, since you have the opportunity of recording your own video on the site and share it will all your circles (or just the friendlier ones, if you wish). “Google+ has long been the place to share and interact with video — Whether it’s using Hangouts with your friends or watching YouTube videos. Today we’re making video a bit more fun by letting you record and share videos of yourself using your webcam,” Google’s Shana Gitnick wrote.
With this new addition, Google+ seem to be moving towards the direction of YouTube’s improved functionality, because as you may well know, YouTube is currently hosting a very large number of independent made videos, people tune in to watch daily. To share your video updates just click on a big button called “Record Video” with the result being immediately shipped off into the user’s Stream. And the videos you record on Google+ don’t even end up on YouTube. Yes, you heard us. They remain stored in photo albums, alongside the already existing photos and videos.
All the material will be hosted on Picasa – a site that just added their video support feature a very brief while ago. Even if at first it seemed that Picasa was becoming competition for YouTube, it became evident that the services are quite different. Picasa’s main goal is to store.
