With Google TV getting more and more traction the recent development of Google +1 is aimed at integrating your living room communications and filling the gap of video conferencing in its offerings. Google +1 will offer massive-scale video conferencing. While Cisco and Avaya are well known in Unified communications for the enterprises, Google is emerging to be an important player in the consumer market for Unified Communications.
How Consumer Unified communications for google is panning out?
Combining the following and you get the answer:
1) Gmail
2) Google Chat
3) Google voice
4) Google +1 - massive scale video conferencing + social networking.
5) Google wave - Even though it is almost dead it will rise again with a different name as a collaboration tool integrating google docs and other google apps.
All of this lives in the cloud, with no extra hardware needed. With Google Tv as a platform, this will emerge in your living room as a solid Consumer Unified Communication solution.
Of course the revenue model is same - ADs!!
By the way let me be the one who coined the word Consumer Unified Communications - CUC!
