And my late night face is LIVE on YouTube. You can see there's a live chat feature on the right.
The YouTube link (not show) looks like any other. It's only created when you go live so you can't know or distribute in advance. You have to send people to your channel and look for the live link as per above.
Present was delivered today when I checked my Google+account. Hangouts On Air is now enabled... unfortunately, I have no time today to play around with this new development. I will report back when I get a chance to try it.
Hmm, I guess my circumstances was a series of dumb luck coincidences. I have a friend who, although not tech savvy, is tech curious, and was trying this out (stumbled upon it). After participating in her hangout to OnAir, I started a hangout and she joined mine. The very same steps worked for me and I was OnAir with YouTube as well.
Interesting that this whole thing came about, much related to the discussion you had on Broadcast Now, as we were exploring alternatives to Skype. The streams I produced almost always involve Skype and guests calling in . . . sometimes multiple . . . sometimes with people who are not tech savvy and often any number of locations are bandwidth challenged and with very low budgets.
I had only used GoogleHangouts once before (someone else's Hangout) and I was OnAir to YouTube on this, my first attempt. I certainly wasn't targeted as a heavy user, that's for sure.
BTW I do find it's a bit buggy when it comes to enabling OnAir to YouTube. Sometimes I have to refresh the browser to get the option.
Google Hangouts OnAir is truly a Beta.
Did a live stream today.
I noted that while the Hangout was changing as different speakers talked, the YouTube channel stayed on one speaker.
Also several times the person who initiated the hangout and the stream invited someone and my entire browser refreshed and I had to reconnect to the hangout. That was with Mac OS 10.6.8 and Safari. I'll have to try with FireFox next time.
The quality, given the sources were webcams, looked pretty good on YouTube but I have no idea what the data rate was. I may have to download a recording and analyze to see what it was.
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