Sunday, September 02, 2007

Pownce & Click2Voice

There are two really cool things I've stumbled upon recently that I wanted to share.
1st, Pownce.com (goto my public page at http://pownce.com/Gadzooks/) which is similar to twitter if you are familiar with that latest craze, only better. If you've never heard of either, think of it like an instant messenger/bulletin board to the world. Pownce takes it a step further and allows your posts to be sent to the world (those that care to look), to groups of friends, or someone specific (like a IM). Plus it has a variety of posts available (messages, links, files! and events).
2nd, Click2Voice [http://click2voice.com] which acts as an operator for your normal phone calls. you put in two numbers, say your home number and your friends home number, & click the big friendly green call button and the service calls each one (your's first) and connects you. What's cool about that. since both phones calls are incoming, no one gets the charge (say goodbye to long distance bills). There is also a cool script for grease monkey that turn phone numbers you see in your browser into quick click2voice links (really cool for webmail that has signatures that include a phone number).