Google has quietly rolled out yet another feature of its Google+ social network, letting users click Share from any YouTube video, revealing an icon that suggests watching the video with friends in a Google+ hangout.
Google didn't formally announce this new feature, instead revealing it via product manager Brian Glick on - where else - Google+, where he casually mentioned it like so:
You can now start a Google+ Hangout with a YouTube video, directly from YouTube. Watch with your friends.
Just click on "Share" underneath any video, and then click on "Start a Google+ Hangout" in the bottom right-hand corner.
A few weeks ago, YouTube Live product manager Brandon Badge quietly mentioned the upcoming ability to enable hangouts from YouTube with live streaming video, and this must be the first stage of that initiative.
As we mentioned then, it's been possible to watch videos with friends since the beginning of Google+, through a more complicated manual process that must be initiated in Google+. But this new button allowing you to initiate hangouts from YouTube with a couple of clicks makes it considerably easier.
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