Indeed, GMail Video Chat is Disruptive!

I was telling everyone to use it the first day it was released.

It’s a 6th sense.

This article describes my thoughts on it very well:

Google’s video chat plugin is another subversive move by the “search” company. Forget its market share and focus instead on its underlying message of cross-platform ubiquity. Those of us who are deeply addicted to Gmail and its growing toolkit of Labs addins are inexorably migrating from Skype and iChat to the new service. Whoever controls the console wins, and each new adopter, whether on Mac or PC, pops up on my traffic control screen in realtime.

It’s easier to click the icon and select video chat than reach for the iPhone, easier than bringing up Skype, and beats iChat by being cross-platform. Skype has a much richer user base and business penetration, but GVideo is easier to visualize. It’s analogous to Twitter’s asymmetrical Follow cloud as compared to Facebook’s much broader reach. The dynamics of peer authority trump ubiquity. This is the dominant economic pattern of the recovery.

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