Google Voice

I finally found a way to get a Google Voice invite a few weeks back. Someone I follow on Twitter sent out a link to a special page for students to request invites. It only requires that you have a .edu email address to submit to them and you will receive an invite within about 24-48 hours. So far the service is really cool. It does many things, but notably it gives users a Google voice number that you can forward to any and all phone lines. You can create groups of callers and have them forwarded to certain lines and you can text for free from it. It gives you free domestic long distance for those of us who still have landlines without it. Another very cool product from Google. This one might be up there with Gmail for me. The company kind of whiffed on Wave (at least so far) so it's nice to see them come back such a cool product. If you have a .edu address and want to try it out, follow this link to request an invite.