Google+ “Hangout” looks like a big hit

Going through Google’s youtubes describing their Google+ service. I was particularly struck by the Hangout feature. Basically Google’s Hangouts let you start a spontaneous multi-person video chat. From the buzz around the web, this looks like it’s going to be a big hit. Will be fun to see how Facebook responds. More interesting still will be to see how many patents that Google filed on all their new social network goodies.