YouTube’s social toolbar needs work

Google always seems to have trouble launching a social service. Just last week, they launched a public profile product without an “add as a friend” button. Today, it’s YouTube’s realtime friend toolbar. It claims to allow you to see which videos your friends are watching in realtime. Sounds like a cool feature, but it takes some work to get it running smoothly. After you have established a friendship with someone on YouTube (which is no simple task), you have to invite them to use RealTime. After they have accepted, they are required to logout and log back in again. Even after this, it took a while to actually see friends in the toolbar. One cool feature is that you can…
Source: ZDNet