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Daria Musk

Daria Musk
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Clint Boulton
Clint Boulton
Aug 26, 2011
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Daria Musk

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Singer/songwriter Daria Musk uses Hangouts to host mini concerts to showcase her work.


Adafruit Industries

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Adafruit industries hosts “electronics show and tell” sessions on Hangouts. Watch them here.


Hanging With Newt

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Newt Gingrich used Hangouts to discuss NASA, the economy and the budget deal in July.


Cooking School

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Lee Allison hosts a Google+ cooking school using Google+. According to the New York Times, classes are broadcast on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and cover everything from gnocchi to crab dumplings and fried rice. Allison posts a list of ingredients so viewers at home can follow along. How cool is that?


Collaborative Coding

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A programmer built this Google Chrome extension to enable collaborative software coding via Hangouts. The geek shall inherit the earth!


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Dell Hangouts

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We’ll file this one under Google+ Hangouts potential, but Dell CEO Michael Dell is mulling making Hangouts an integral part of his customer service operations.


Data Liberation Front

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Last month, Google’s Data Liberation Front team drummed up support for its data migration service by meeting with journalists via Google+ Hangouts. One of the sessions involved eWEEK meeting with Google Data Liberation Front Leader Brian Fitzpatrick (pictured center screen).


Not Hanging Out

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Haven’t tried Hangouts yet? No worries, it’s not going anywhere. Here’s a video tour of how Hangouts work.

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