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Comment by notatoad | Hacker News Reader

the chrome integration plugins look pretty good, but i really don't understand the utility of the youtube integration. if they had built some g+ sharing into the youtube interface, i could see that. but instead it looks like they've essentially built a youtube radio into the g+ page. why?

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FWIW, I think this is entirely the wrong direction to integrate. I've been loving the "auto-sync photos and videos" feature of the Android G+ app, as it elminates a tedious manual step and as a result I get to show off more videos of my cute toddler.

... or I could, if my family is on G+. And of course they're not: they're on facebook. So what I want is the ability to simply move the G+ videos over to my youtube account. But I can't.

And YouTube's lack of a mobile site for publishing makes it excruciatingly painful to share a video uploaded from a phonecam. (As does YouTube's lack of privately-shared "albums" like Picasa has.)

Not so bad, really. On Android phones at least you select "share" while viewing the video and pick "youtube" from the list. But you still have to wait for the upload, it's not "just there" the way it is with g+.

Two purposes:

1. Discovery - the YT integration becomes your own radio while you're on G+. 2. Sharing - brings the ability to share the YT videos you're listening to currently easily on G+.

In one swift motion, it nullifies the need for other radio sites like rdio, Spotify, <INSERT_NEW_COOL_INTERNET_RADIO_STARTUP_HERE>

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