youmail.com — listen to your voicemail from the computer wherever, whenever. customize greetings for people. the big plus is you can make the greetings on the computer and upload them! mix mp3's together and make an awesome greeting.
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klawzJan 22, 2007
Not to dilute this product, but GrandCentral.com is free, and IMO a bit better. All the carriers mentioned here, will allow you to divert your calls to any number (not just the carriers vm app" when busy, unavailable, or out of the area.
franksmithJan 22, 2007
Hmmm have to check out that grandcentral tooI thought the youmail site was a bit weak on the info side... I sent the following questionsAm wondering if I can have the system default to automatically send all voicemails to email (mine)?? Is it recorded with Verizon?s default user interface i.e. ?push 1 to skip greeting??? Any thoughts on expanding this to VOIP companies (8x8)? Can different amounts of rings be set for different phone numbers/contacts? Is your website compatible with the standard Windows Mobile 5.0 web browser?Can the VM?s be retrieved by phone? How much will the service cost when it is out of beta?Is this going to be turned over to the carriers to sell/handle when out of beta?
brickhouseJan 22, 2007
YouMail is now MAC friendly. woohoo... re Windows: YouMail is working on the Windows Mobile browsers but more importantly addressed many of the previous more fundamental Mac issues and works much better on Safari now.Definitely check out Grand central - they have a lot of cool features * however * I found that with Grand central you have to change your cell phone number (reference: this month's Popular Science Magazine, "If you don't want to bother with new digits from GrandCentral, register at YouMail.com"...yada.yada...). No offense, but changing your cell # blows.Nothing's formal yet, but YouMail's "active beta users" will likely enjoy the service free for quite a bit longer. re Franksmith's Qs: some can be done by YouMail already: auto-send to email, retrieve VM from any phone, different rings are simply on your handset, YouMail will likely keep a free version available to the public -- perhaps advanced features forthcoming may require payment... In the next iteration of code, YouMail will auto-map the default user interface from your carrier. i.e. the different numbers for skip, delete, save, etc will map to Verizon, Cingular, etc. Hint: if the site doesn't allow you to sign up because beta accounts ran out again, just get a friend to invite you from within the app. You can almost guarantee an account that way.Full disclosure (because I believe more people should be doing this): I work at YouMail
franksmithJan 24, 2007
I asked all my questions to their tech support and got back a comprehensive and complete reply... except what the price will be for the "full service" version when it goes live. Brickhouse?I also checked out Grandcentral... it looks cool too but having to change all my marketing to a new phone number does not sound cool and once you have done that and if Grandcentral starts to screw up... will that number port elsewhere? Those are not options I am willing to deal with.I am going to look into youmail some more... but seriously, Brickhouse, your website needs more info... both simplistic, this is how it works from A to Z and then more technical specifications.We'll see..........
brickhouseJul 21, 2007
Hah. Sorry - been a while since I've been on Digg. To answer Franksmith's question: YouMail is live and it is free and all that you're enjoying about youmail now will remain free.
latech07Sep 26, 2007
YouMail just upgraded some of their features like land line capability and grouping callers to one greeting.and still you get to keep your same number, not get a new one assigned