YouTube Gets Google+ Hangouts (PICTURES)

Since Google openly launch its Google+ social network in late June, the Hangouts feature has let users simultaneously stream Youtube videos as they video chat with their friends.

The mother of all social networks

The mother of all social networks, Facebook, recently partnered with VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service Skype to introduce a free video calling service for the Facebook platform. Opposite with Google's Hangout feature, Facebook's video chat feature doesn't allow group calls and doesn't let users stream YouTube videos.

Several other competing services--just as Tinychat, AOL's AV and Apple's iChat--allow for group video calls however don't offer a feature that lets groups watch streaming video at the same time.

Google is slowly integrating its new social network into some of its other services. For instance, Google recently announced that public posts on Google+ will now appear below relevant links in Google Search results.