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Jason Goecke has a long history in telephony. His unique perspective is built on extensive business experience around the world as well as technical depth. His passion for disruption manifests itself in his on-going support of open source telephony, with the latest phase being his commitment to the Adhearsion project.
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GrandCentral Becomes Google Voice
GrandCentral 2.0 Just Around the Corner?
When I moved back to the US after several years in Europe, just under 2 years ago, I had the unique situation of having no legacy phone number. At this time GrandCentral was still an independent startup in beta offering one phone number to rule them all. I jumped on the opportunity to have a GrandCentral number and then only gave that number out both professionally and personally. Having all of the GrandCentral features was a breath of fresh air at the time, but quickly became stale after the Google acquisition of GrandCentral in July of 2007.
At first I thought the Google acquisition was great, as it seemed to guarantee that number could be relied upon 'for life'. But after over a year and a half of silence, I began to think that all that had happened was that GrandCentral had been forgotten. Would GrandCentral go the way of so many other previous services? This appeared to be a certainty when WebWorkerDaily reported that the GrandCentral SSL Cert was expiring...
Then an eagle eye over at the Google Operating System blog noted that Jeff Huber, SVP of Engineering at Google, commented on a FriendFeed post about the SSL cert story:
Writely + XL2Web + TonicSystems -> Google Docs, Keyhole -> Google Earth/Maps, Urchin + MeasureMap -> Google Analytics, JotSpot -> Google Sites, Zingku -> Google FriendConnect, Android -> Android, DoubleClick -> DoubleClick, Feedburner -> AdSense for Feeds (in-process); sorry about Dodgeball.
... and David Pogue's comment after the post gets it right -- a new version on new infrastructure will be coming soon. Apologies to anyone who has run into issues on the legacy version.
Will this be simply a back-end infrastructure change, or will we see all the great features we have been waiting for in a 2.0 release? I am anxiously awaiting an API for call routing, hooking up my own SIP endpoints and having integration with all of my other Google Apps. Has Google created the killer VSB/SME application platform by adding voice? I certainly hope to find out soon...
