I know I know - your thinking - "here we go again....isnt google+ dead?"
My gut feel is that it might be making a comeback.
Now there is this fancy info graphic doing the rounds with 20 reasons why.
But that is not what Im talking about.
Ive been looking into g+ hangouts and just realised two important things:
1) google+ apps can interact and work with Hangouts (ill show you what I mean)
2) you can now live broadcast & record to youtube
So what?
Well....
Just think -> social + games + charoulette style video chat!
Google+ Hangouts have a bunch of apps. Like shared document viewing & drawing.
And screensharing!
Youtube broadcasting + hangouts + apps = gotowebinar should be worried!
It has "overlays" like special effects

So you can combine all of this with games.
Table football anyone!

You can see the video here
Anyway - its very early days. But the innovation thats possible because of the social infratsructure + apis that google provides could just result in a recovery of google+
Oh and here is that info graphic

oh and 2 things:
1) NO im not the guy with the beard in that table football video!
2) Google is soon introducing ads into Google+!!!
I think they will just display the Google Adwards ads there. nothing new. cause we can see Google's ads in our personal email pages. So why not in Google +????? LOL