Google GrandCentral… API coming?
February 5, 2008 – 8:19 pmSo, I’m adding this call me button from my freshly established GrandCentral account to the blog:
If you’re reading this and you are not me (unlikely as this may be), try it! Leave me a voice comment! This button allows anyone to hit it and call my phone without being able to see my real phone number… it’s like a proxy for my phone. This is just one of the many services provided by GrandCentral that seem quite useful. GrandCentral’s feature set seems to represent a decent chunk of the kinds of things that can be provided for free to web users now that VOIP is finally coming into its own. My hope for Google’s purchase of GrandCentral is that they will soon produce an open API for it that will encourage developers to integrate our phones with our social graphs. There are a number of ways to converge the phone system with the web if you start from a platform like GrandCentral. I can think of several compelling social applications and other mashups that could be made with a robust GrandCentral API and the other various software-as-service platforms now available from Google, Facebook, mySpace (as of today!), Amazon, and the rest. None of my ideas has anything to do with sending beer or zombies through your phone, don’t worry. Besides, someone else is surely working through the night on those… as I type…
