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The Last Phone Number You Will Ever Need
lifehacker.com — GrandCentral is a brilliant new web app that lets you consolidate all of your phone numbers into one number, meaning someone can call you on your GrandCentral phone number and all of your phones will ring. And then it gets interesting.
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- cpyle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Very cool concept - is this available anywhere outside the U.S?
- trghpy, on 10/12/2007, -19/+6I have a simple method...
My cell phone (service by cingular/at&t/ma bell) has a nifty Call Forward feature.
When I'm stuck in the office building i forward calls to my desk phone.
When I'm home i forward to my home number.
I can even be selective and only forward when I'm out of reach, or forward all my fax calls.
No service charges, and calls don't count against my minutes. - Dested, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I tired it "New phone number" is alliance food and drink co. Wtf? Why did they give me an already in use number!?
- thekid42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1From my experiments so far, this does work in Canada. I'm not sure if they have any Canadian numbers available, but setting up an American number to be forwarded to a Canadian number works fine. I doubt it'd work anywhere else in the world though due to country codes and such. Hope this helps...
- CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2This is probably the coolest thing since gmail!
- mrFREEZE, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10"Grand Central: One number.... For life" (or until our company dies, whichever comes first)
- toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@cpyle: It's not even available everywhere in the U.S. yet.
- subliminalurge, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"Very cool concept - is this available anywhere outside the U.S?"
This is actually very simple to set up for yourself using asterisk. There is a little expense involved in signing up with a voip provider to get a phone number and receive calls from the POTS, but there are very reasonably priced voip providers out there if you do a little searching.
Grand Central has definitely polished the interfaces up very nicely, but I could have an asterisk box set up and configured in an afternoon that would provide all of the basic functionality.
- trghpy, on 10/12/2007, -19/+6I have a simple method...
- Djerrid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Digg for great concept. Anyone willing to be our guinea pig and let us know how well it works?
- fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13If you read the article, the author can be your guinea pig. (wow!)
- Technopundit, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Easy. It doesn't work.
- teh_toaster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Works damn well for me. Even plays nice with Skype so far. I set up Skype to forward to GrandCentral which then rang the other phones that I plugged into GC. Also recorded voice mails quite nicely, which can be listened to in the browser, and emailed, and probably other things too. But I haven't looked that closely yet.
I just don't see myself using it that much. I just use my cell as a primary anyway. - vpaquet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Feel free to try it: it's free. No credit card required. Once you start using it you'll wonder how you can live without the control it provides you over your calls and your messages.:-)
- AlanKc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I like it. Im not a phone person, this gives me control ;p
- shosterman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Combine this with the YouMail Beta that just launched and welcome back the power of the phone.
http://digg.com/software/YouMail_Launches_Beta_Mobile_Crunch_has_Exclusive - shosterman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nevermind the previous post of mine, it appears you can also personalize each caller ID with a unique voicemail so there's not really a need to "combine" the two. Rather you could pick one or the other depending on the features you want.
- thekak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Seems like a great idea and has a good ammount of features. Not sure if it's the best idea for all people in the end... ether way, good stuff.
- zzzzbest, on 10/12/2007, -21/+51Link to the site itself, not a ***** blog that just piggybacks off of others' content.
Real link:
http://www.grandcentral.com- daldredge, on 10/12/2007, -9/+62@zzzbest
What original content does digg.com generate? If it wasn't for piggybacking off of others' content digg.com would not exist. - fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20@daldredge
Ah, but it's just downright annoying to climb off multiple piggybacks to get to the real content. The idea behind not submitting blog links to Digg is to reduce the number of piggyback layers (blogs tend to link to blogs, which tend to link to blogs, which ... may eventually get to the source ... or maybe not if one blog in the chain can't handle the traffic).
@zzzzbest
Personally, I'd consider this particular lifehacker post to be a review of the GrandCentral service. Borderline, I admit, but not completely out of bounds. - Anpheus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Turtles all the way down ;p
(Or should that be pigs all the way down?) - ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25When it's a blog that doesn't add anything, I agree.
In this case, the author of the blog (LifeHacker, btw, a pretty high quality blog) actually tried the product and provides a bit of a review.
If it linked directly to GrandCentral, I'd glance at it, say "wtf is this supposed to be?" and close it. - zzzzbest, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1@ahawks
That's what the description field in the submission is for. - Subcranium, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Error: Host Not Accessible
The web host www.grandcentral.com is not accessible. - Misanthrope, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Oh shut the hell up. I'd MUCH rather have a description from a DECENT blog and THEN go to the site, as opposed to just clicking the digg link and going straight to the site to "try it myself". There's no way in hell I'd use this without reading something about it.
I agree that blogs, often times, are useless and are put here as a way to get traffic to a ***** site. This isn't one of those cases. This is a good, reputable blog that's actually telling me something about the program. A link straight to this program would be retarded.
- daldredge, on 10/12/2007, -9/+62@zzzbest
- MagisterJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33Is there anything stopping me from adding all my friends' numbers to GC, thereby creating one freakin' amazing phone prank?
- garrettnb, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1its just like having free conference calls on skype out
- finkployd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Ooops it's back up - ruins the joke.
- illegalchuck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8WWTJBD - What Would The Jerky Boys Do?
- NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8And then post the number all over town!
- garrettnb, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1its just like having free conference calls on skype out
- mobajwa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Are they going to offer free services for a while and then force everyone to pay after 1-2 months ?
- ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7nothing is stopping them
- thelandlady, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Maybe you should read the article and found out...
- nicepants, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@ericnmu - "nothing is stopping them"
....the Digg effect appears to be stopping them... :-O
- Shriker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5So... I can get barraged by people no matter what phone of mine I'm near. Um. Interesting concept, but I have separate numbers for a reason.
- cwalker123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Thanks for all the comments. You guys are all over it. Here's the lowdown. First, apologies for the hit on our web servers...had a load balancer issue that's now resolved and adding hardware as well. Should be speeding up as we speak. Also, we've got tons of new phone numbers on order and will be loading them as quickly as you can, so keep checking back for your phone numbers.
The Digg effect is definitely in effect. Regardless, it should be running smoother as of now and we're adding a lot of hardware tonight. Very impressive response by you all.
A few clarifications on the service...its free for all beta users for 60 days. Unlimited inbound calls, all features, etc., and we even give you a credit so you can make outbound calls during beta. After the beta period, we'll have 2 tiers. One tier of unlimited inbound calls, all features, upload 100 mp3s for RingShare, 10 hours of recorded calls, forward to 6 numbers (plus a temporary number), etc., will be $14.99 per month. BUT, there's also a free tier...that will stay free, and it gives you virtually all the features and 100 minutes of connected minutes per month. After that your calls will go to voicemail or you can buy a bucket of overage minutes if you don't want the subscription (overage minutes will roll over month to month until you use them).
For those who say its been done before, I say its been TRIED before, but never with these features. Find me, follow me? That's just for openers. Every call you get you can do a bunch of stuff (record, ListenIn on voicemail, join a voicemail if you want the call, etc.). Also, if you're driving along and need to record something (ie phone number, etc.), just hit the 4 key and we'll start recording for you. Also, we'll save your voicemail online for LIFE for paid users and for 30 days for free users...compare that to the 2 weeks you get from your cell provider. Also, we let you customize how your different callers are treated. Want your work callers to only ring work and cell but not home? No problem. Want to have a custom greeting for your wife or boss? No problem. You can even upload any mp3 to replace the ringsound your callers hear.
Also...the pipeline's full with a ton of other cool features we hope you'll love. Thanks for the interest and feedback...keep it coming!
Best - Craig Walker, GrandCentral
- cwalker123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Thanks for all the comments. You guys are all over it. Here's the lowdown. First, apologies for the hit on our web servers...had a load balancer issue that's now resolved and adding hardware as well. Should be speeding up as we speak. Also, we've got tons of new phone numbers on order and will be loading them as quickly as you can, so keep checking back for your phone numbers.
- NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Sounds more like the last thing id want!
- Liam5, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I like it alot.
- daldredge, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1If only you knew how to spell :)
- HoboMaster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1... you mean 9-1-1?
- daldredge, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Why would anyone want to be that reachable?
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I already hate it enough when people talk at me. The last thing I want is to make it really, really easy for people to talk at me even more!
- fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8You don't go out to the movies much, do you? There's always someone there who can't go 113 minutes (plus previews) without yapping at someone.
- cwalker123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9One tagline is "never miss a call you want to take, or take a call you want to miss". You're only as reachable as you want to be. You can set what phones ring when different groups of callers call you. Don't want to be reachable, set "Others" to go directly to voicemail and only let "Friends", "Family" or "Work" reach you.
Or, just hit 3 on every call to ListenIn on the voicemail while its being left and only join the calls that are important (by hitting STAR key)...
Either way, we wanted to put you in control to be as reachable as you want do be (or don't want to be)
Best - Craig Walker, GrandCentral - mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i think you kinda missed the point daldredge. i foresee using this more for avoiding unnecessary phone calls when i'm busy and recording the important calls permanently than for being "that reachable".
- NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Here is an idea. Make three accounts. Have the first number call the second number that calls the third number. The third number calls the first number again. Have the second number also link to like 8 friends. Then call the first number and hang up. It should start a loop and start bombarding you friends with some half second rings!
- liquidjamm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Are you sure? i think you;ll get the voicemail responce or busy signal on your first phone once the loop completes. I often forward my work cell to my personal so I wouldn;t have to log around both, also I forget to un-forward before forwarding personal to my work one. The result is anyone who calls either number get's a busy signal; and if I call from one cellin the loop to another cell in the loop I'd just get the voicemail.
- LilyFoxglove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Swap out "friends" for another word, and you have an interesting concept here.
- dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm sure they have some level of protection for loops like that... And if they don't, I'm sure they will soon enough. (I'm curious to know how fast the connecting is, and if a loop, left unchecked, would crash the computers in charge, or at least clog up the system all nasty like)
- silo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5They don't have my area code. :-/
- ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Mine either. Then again, I only have a work phone and a cell phone. It would be nice if the cell would redirect to work to save minutes though.
- redforty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"If you're on a call and you decide that you want to record your conversation, just hit 4 at any time." You can even listen in on people leaving their messages.
Isn't this just another way for a company to keep track of every phone call/voicemail/conversation/etc.. we ever have? Now with EVERY NUMBER we have?! - PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Wait, what happens when my cell's off and its voicemail automatically picks up?
- coldshuts, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2RTFP
- dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"When you pick up a call that's been forwarded with GrandCentral, you can choose to answer it, send it to voicemail (...), or send it to voicemail and listen in on the message as it's being left in real time"
Unless your non-GC voicemail has the DTMF tones that correspond to one of those options, it shouldn't answer the call, or send it through to voicemail...
However, do the other phones stop ringing when one of them is picked up and promted to chose an option? If so, you'd have to turn off voicemail on the mobile, or something...
- blizzwatch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The site is grinding to a halt, I'm assuming the digg effect.
If this thing can't handle Digg traffic how confident should I be that it can get that important call to me... - ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Looks like a quality site. Sure, it's struggling under the load of Digg, but instead of a 403 or something, I get a nice popup saying my request couldn't go through or something. I'd consider that failing elegantly.
- f0dder, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1telemarketers creamin their pants over this
- dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Why?
I can't think of anything sustainable that a telemarketer could get out of this.
- dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Why?
- redrighthand, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Seems like there might be a way to really screw with people by using this. Post a number online and have the forward number be your ex girlfriend? I guess you wouldnt have to use this to do that but it seems like something bad could come from this-
Singing up now- mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1evil.
i think they need to send a confirmation text message instead of a confirmation email.
p.s. thank dark overlord xenu that they dont send a confirmation text message instead of a confirmation email.
- mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1evil.
- Technopundit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The Digg effect is killing the entire website.
- harris2004, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2vonage can do this too,,i think....not a very new technology
- JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2uReach did this years ago.
- haggie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1"Your request could not be completed."
I'm overflowing with confidence in their technical expertise... - mlaporte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They should add another hotkey to relay the call to something like the Telecrapper 2000 : http://www.pagerealm.com/tc2k/
- Quiplash, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'm told they have run out of numbers in my area code, then offers me Providence, Rhode Island. As if I'm going to use a service that means I have to call long distance to RI.
Pass.- toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Same here, except mine goes to Allentown, PA. Allentown? Thanks, but no thanks. Call me (pun intended) when you're out of beta.
- MattS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Many have tried. Many have failed. Most of the comments here are valid. The technology is not new, and it can be duplicated manually by using the call forward features of your phone.
I find this type of service very useful for customer facing people - like sales....
Check the fine print tho - free for 30 days or 100 minutes...- mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1check the fine print:
http://www.grandcentral.com/home/learnmore/
its perpetually free, but you're limited to 100 minutes per month, then all calls get automatically sent to the GC voicemail, where it can store up to an hour of recordings.
for free. you don't even have to enter your credit card info.
besides, the beta users get unlimited usage for 60 days. that's pretty generous.
- mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1check the fine print:
- Technopundit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So I have to tell everyone I know to call a long distance number south of Lake Havasu, AZ because there are no numbers in my area.
They'll think I've been sent to jail....
I'm certain they will soon offer numbers in my area - for 10 to 20 dollars a month.
Marked as "hype".- rajulkabir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Numbers cost them money. You live in the middle of nowhere. It is not hype if a new startup doesn't offer the same service at every point in the universe from day one.
You must really get pissed off every time a new restaurant opens in some other town.
- rajulkabir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Numbers cost them money. You live in the middle of nowhere. It is not hype if a new startup doesn't offer the same service at every point in the universe from day one.
- ePlus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Privacy = Out the window!
- ShawnKing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Been done many years ago by a company called Webley. This seems to be a new iteration with fewer features (and lower cost) than the Webley system. I used Webley back in the day and it was very cool. I'll be trying out this version.
http://telephonyonline.com/mag/telecom_masters_voice/ - plexicube, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hey guys...
Thanks for all of the comments and interest! Just to let you know the Digg effect is hammering us right now but we are installing new servers and load balancers as we speak (type.) We want to allow everyone to check out what were doing here, so we should have our stuff beefed up in a very short while. And for all those concerned... the free service will remain free. For 30 days you get free access to premium features, but the free service will NOT become a paid service. We are adding more numbers and area codes as fast as we can acquire them as well, so keep checking back for your numbers in the next few days if you're not seeing something local just yet.
Damn this is fun!
Joshua Chiet
Flash Developer, GrandCentral- CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Do you guys plan to support plus-addressing?
(e.g. charles.darwin+grandcentral@gmail.com) - CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It works even though the page claims the address is invalid. Sorry too late to edit.
- guyincognito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1add area code 317
- CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Do you guys plan to support plus-addressing?
- BrK1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I can do almost all of this right now through my business VoIP provider. If I really wanted the missing bits (listen to VM as it's being recorded) I'm sure they'd add it.
It's a nice thing, I don't put my cell# on business cards anymore, or give it out.
When you call my office, my office line rings, my office voip phone at home rings, and my cellphone rings. Whichever one I pick up takes the call. If I answer none, the VM goes to my cellphone.- rajulkabir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yep, been doing it for a while now, though I'm using Asterisk. My one number rings straight through to my cell phone wherever in the world I go, without any need for roaming fees - I just get a SIM card and stick it in, then update the number in Asterisk's configuration. At the moment I'm in Australia for a month and I haven't even bothered to tell my office; they can't tell the difference.
It rings different phones based on the time of day (rings my home phone but not my cell phone if I am likely to be asleep, since the home phone is much quieter). And I get a heads-up display on my computer screen before the phone even starts ringing, thanks to app_notify.
I experimented with some other stuff - having it forward calls to me when I'm at a hotel by playing ringback to the caller while it plays a recording to the person who answers the phone: "Room 418 please. Room 418 please." But unsurprisingly that's not too reliable; some hotel clerks are too chatty. I figured this way I could save some money because termination to landlines is often free, but landing on a cell phone in some countries costs me as much as US$0.20 per minute.
Anyway, the sky's the limit. Cheap calls are nice, but it's the ability to totally control your call flow that really makes this VoIP stuff exciting.
- rajulkabir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yep, been doing it for a while now, though I'm using Asterisk. My one number rings straight through to my cell phone wherever in the world I go, without any need for roaming fees - I just get a SIM card and stick it in, then update the number in Asterisk's configuration. At the moment I'm in Australia for a month and I haven't even bothered to tell my office; they can't tell the difference.
- ohsnap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's too funny about the Providence comment. I live in NY but ended up taking an RI number over a NJ number... something went wrong
- Quiplash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, well I'm in the Canadian prairies. You mean to tell me the closest you can do is Rhode Island?! Oy gevalt.
- jobyyboj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone know how the caller id works, they claim they can ID a number that is blocked. They have their own number lookup I'm guessing, which could be cool. Anyone else have this capability, Vonage etc?
- cwalker123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5One quick thing on telemarketers....we built this to help you avoid them. If you ever get a message or a call from a telemarketer, you can quickly set them to SPAM and then all future calls from that number will go directly to your SPAM folder. We're working on another feature that will let you do this live while you are ON a call with a telemarketer, and it shoudl be out with the next rev. Other good thing for privacy is that nobody knows where you are when you answer your GC call. Its a phone number that's not tied to a location so you can answer from anywhere and nobody needs to know you're taking your calls from the beach. Finally, if there's a nut job bothering you 24/7 you can set them to spam and they're gone. They can't fill your cellular voicemail, they can't hit 0 to talk to a receptionist to find out where you work, they can't do a reverse phone lookup to find out your white pages info, etc. They just go to SPAM. - Craig Walker, GrandCentral
- rajulkabir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I cannot think of the last time a telemarketer was so kind as to send me their phone number so I could block it. They always come up as Out Of Area.
- ahmerhussain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Vonage has had this since, forever.
- AlanKc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love it.. It works great! I'm not a phone person, this gives me control.. Its got my Digg.
- CherryTzors, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Once again, digg pwns yet another website... ;) How long is it gonna be before people start sueing digg for crashing their servers?
- akalol111, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So that is how all those phones rang at the end of lawnmower man...
- level, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Tried some other free phone# services in past and never worked. This one is setup very, very nicely. Great interface. Very easy to use. The control this gives you may make this my primary number. But this is only day 1 so we will see, but I am very impressed so far. They need to allow you to add more groups to the greetings. They only have 4 (home, work, cell, other). It would be nice to add one for let's say each friend you have and then you can customize each greeting according to your friend. "What up Jimmy, your a douchebag, I'll call you back later when I am done banging your sister". That would be a cool feature.
- vpaquet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0level, you can do that today: in your contacts, click on the settings tab and you can customize the greetings, the RingShares and which phones ring PER caller. Try it and let me know how it works. My buddies can't believe it when they hear the personal greeting!
Vincent Paquet - GrandCentral
- vpaquet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0level, you can do that today: in your contacts, click on the settings tab and you can customize the greetings, the RingShares and which phones ring PER caller. Try it and let me know how it works. My buddies can't believe it when they hear the personal greeting!
- level, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1P.S. Also, if they added more ring tones for people that don't want to upload their own or don't like the Standard English, British, Japanese, etc. . Maybe have categories of different ring tones. Also could have a page of user uploaded or user created ringtones categorized by theme or most popular, top 20, etc. More control over everything-the better. I also noticed the sound quality of the mp3 I uploaded was very poor. Nit picky stuff. Great freakin concept. Just a suggestion.
- vpaquet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0level, love the suggestion of user created ringtone. will follow up on that. We're sampling the mp3 at the phone line frequency. Whatever quality you upload, it will sound the same to your caller. The phone system was unfortunately not initially designed to carry music i guess :-)
- seanroth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah... but.. 60 days free? Even when the 60 days is over, you only get 100 minutes free. Once you get people calling your GrandCentral number, it's going to suck once you use up your 100 minutes and you can't afford (or want to use your money on) the premium service, which is 14.99 a month.
- vpaquet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0seanroth, if you're not willing to commit, we let you buy a bucket of minutes that does not expire (400 min for $9.99). Those minutes only get used after you use all your monthly minutes. So every month you will get your 100 free minutes but if you go over, then we use your bucket. Also, if you want to try the premium and change your mind, you can revert back to free at any time in your account setting. there is no commitment
- mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is... odd.
i can dial my GC number from my cell phone and recieve my GC inbox access. it doesn't ring, it just goes straight to my control menu. but when i call from my house phone, in the same area code as both my cell phone and GC number, i get a recorded message from the local telephone company that the number requires a long distance access code. since i don't have free long distance on my landline like i do on my cell phone, this might make sense if i were calling from a different area code. but all three numbers are from the same area code.
perplexing. - topbravo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Vonage has this one down FTW
- jamescronk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I am very impressed. Looks to be a cool idea and service. Hopefully some more cool things to come from it. I have no problem using it at all.
- Krispy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1why combine your numbers instead of just giving out one of them to everyone. I don't get it....
- AdamWeeden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why make a person call 3 different numbers to get ahold of you? I don't get it....
- techaddress, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1he day after GrandCentral publicly launched at DEMO, we had the interesting opportunity to interview Vincent Paquet, Founder and COO of GrandCentral Ventures, Inc. GrandCentral, a Web based phone management service, has received a healthy amount of publicity lately from several popular sources including, TechCrunch, CNET Networks’ News.com and Gizmodo. We hope you find the information below informative.
http://techaddress.wordpress.com/2006/09/28/interview-with-vincent-paquet-grandcentrals-founder-and-coo/ - nymdoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0When you call from your cell, office, etc your cell's number will show up on caller ID. It would've been nice to have the GrandCentral's number displayed on caller ID instead (somehow). This way, truly "1 number ever..."
- cwalker123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nymdoc...we're working on that, but in the meantime you can use the click to "call" button in the inbox and that will ring you and the person you are calling, in which case we will input your GrandCentral caller id. Also, if you are listenting to your message via the telephone, you can hit 2 any time during the message and we'll call back the person who called you (also inserting the GrandCentral number), and will return you to that message in your voicemail once your call is through.
Hope you like it. - TDave00, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1Grandcentral is definitely a cool service. I have been using it for awhile now to get free phone service. I have a post on my blog about how I did it.
http://trai.name/technology/how-to-get-free-phone- ...
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