Adam Pash — Team Lifehacker has been playing around with Google+ all morning, and so far the coolest innovation weve seen—particularly from a productivity standpoint—is the Hangouts feature, which creates rooms for you to hang out with your friends, coworkers, or any of your social circles. Its great.Weve tried out various video conferencing solutions before—like Skypes subscription-required, clunky group video calling—and theyve never really worked that well. Google+ Hangouts, on the other hand, has so far been really impressive. In fact, the main stumbling block so far seems to be related more to slower connections than to the tool itself.Check out the video above to see it in action. Apologies if we seem overly giddy in the video. Hangouts is undeniably a fun tool, but were also considering moving our weekly feature meetings from our group chat tool to Hangouts, so its got plenty of productivity potential.

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