Unified Communication – An opportunity for Google to be social

Unified Communication is a mobile chat application that leverages your social graph and adds cool features like photo and location sharing.   This is especially important now because mobile behavior is forming now and companies from startup to heavy weights are rushing to offer customers the  lock-in-through-habit experience they can have their their phone.

In short  – it’s a battle to take over your mobile contact list management + how you share and make friends when you’re mobile. The current contenders are from a broad spectrum, newest ones that have gained entry are:

Old messengers including Skype, Meebo, ebuddy, pidgin also have big plans to move into the unifieid communication space because they realize the winner will gain an application that its users access constantly.

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