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Watch “A Few Good Navs” on YouTube
Chris Futch and Zack Latham (@Sandpapery) performed a parody of the famous final courtroom scene from “A Few Good Men” at the FSU Navigators (@fsunavigators) talent show back in April. I’m finally getting around to posting video from that night.
Watch “@Google & YouTube present A Conversation with Conan O’Brien” on YouTube
I’m a big fan of Conan O’Brien. He and Andy Richter recently made a stop at Google headquarters where they gave a tremendous interview. The video is a bit long but it’s hysterical.
Find out more about Conan’s comedy tour at teamcoco.com.
Watch “Voicemail, the Google Way” on YouTube
Google Voice is Google’s take on voicemail. It offers those of us without an iPhone or other fancy smart phone some pretty slick features for saving and organizing voice messages. But it does much more than archive messages. Google will give you a new phone number. You can then direct all your existing numbers to that one number. Indicate which line should ring when Person A calls. Block Person B entirely. Even listen in on Person C’s voicemail as they’re leaving it and, if it’s too important to wait, pick up the call mid-message just like back in the day when we all used our answering machines to screen our landline calls.
The feature set sounded awesome from day one, but I didn’t like the idea of needing to give out a new phone number to everyone just so I’d have a few more features on my phone. Google has hinted at allowing users to port their existing number to their service sometime in the future. They still haven’t added that ability, but today Google released the next best thing. You can now use many of the Google Voice features with your existing cell number.
Continue reading ‘Google Voice: Use it with Your Existing Number’
The post on my blog that attracts the most traffic (for reasons I don’t understand) is a post I wrote last December announcing that Google Street View had put my house on the web. I thought this story would make a good follow-up, since it looks like Google is intent on putting every square inch of the world on its website. Now, to get to those places for which its van is just too big, Google has outfitted a tricycle with its Street View image capture technology. That’s right, a trike! (Here’s the official announcement on the Google blog.)
Donald Miller Contest: We Have a Winner
As promised, I have picked at random a winner for my Donald Miller book giveaway. Check out this video.
Congratulations to S.C. Davis! You’re the big winner. (Here’s the winning comment.)
Look for Donald Miller’s A Million Miles in a Thousand Years on September 29. Look also for my review of the book to be posted the same day on this site.
Thanks again to everyone who participated in this giveaway! Special thanks to my roommate Joe for promoting the heck out of this giveaway over on his Facebook profile.