Google Voice is fun to play with. I used my initial invite for a business number. I'm waiting on another one that will be used for all of our family numbers.
princewally | Email | Homepage | 07.07.09 - 2:22 pm | #

Wow, that's a pretty great service. Almost makes me wish I had need of it.

Say what you will about Google, but goddamn, they do good work.
Seeks | Email | Homepage | 07.07.09 - 6:04 pm | #

How does one go about getting an invite?
Matt | Email | Homepage | 07.07.09 - 6:31 pm | #

That is hella cool! Id want it for the recording and blocking functions more than anything (hey, Im a one phone number kinda guy right now). Plus getting my voicemail thru gmail would be nice. Oh, and a blackberry app so I can do everything from my blackberry. Wow, now that would be cool...

Got any invites?
Taylor | Email | Homepage | 07.07.09 - 7:56 pm | #

You have to go to the google voice link and ask for an invite. Then they'll send you your invite as they become available.
Chris Byrne | Email | Homepage | 07.07.09 - 9:16 pm | #

Chris, I think you have a misspelled word in there. It's not QWest.... It's QWorst. I had MANY problems with them. I was very happy to leave them and go wireless.
Rick | Email | Homepage | 07.08.09 - 8:50 am | #

FWIW, for those who also want an invite, they're being pretty free about sending them out. I got mine less than 24 hours after posting that comment above and then filling in their form to request one. Initially I wondered if Chris or some other blog reader might have taken pity and sent me one, as used to be possible with gmail when that was still invite-only, but I can't find a "send an invite to your friends" link, so I'm guessing my name just came up on the list.
Matt | Email | Homepage | 07.09.09 - 9:37 am | #

I don't trust Google one bit. They're run by a bunch of leftists more radical than Obama.
Their data collection on people would have been the KGB's wet dream.
J.T. Wenting | Email | Homepage | 07.09.09 - 10:13 am | #