Does the politics in the post ever end?

You sound like my girlfriend :)

I tend to not always spell out what I see as the obvious. In this case I thought it better to just say what the deal was and let you all consider the ramifications in telecommunications and politics, until I reread it today and thought otherwise.

Personally, I’m going to start producing ‘original content’ for this site, meaning reporting that isn’t merely commenting on other people’s reporting. I’ll be using Google Voice to record interviews to a central location I can access from wherever I am. I’ll also be using it to make calls to local independents, when I do some local polling as advance market research of sorts to give a few of us indies in the Omaha area a better idea of how we should structure a grassroots group for independents and moderates.

And thanks Nancy :)

Crazy? Nah… but I would comment that you do get a number for your Google Voice account for whatever area code you want, and you could cut your land line and cell bill by routing some of your calls through Google Voice, on top of adding some features that may be useful to you.

Regarding ads… I seriously doubt they’ll put ads in the phone calls ever. The whole Google paradigm has been doing what others do… better. I actually don’t like their search engine much (I like Yahoo and Bing much more) but Gmail and Google Docs are fantastic. They know that, if they made a product that was significantly worse than that of others, like it would be if there were audio ads in the phone calls, there would be zero reason for people to use their service over other services.

No… my guess is they’ll make their money by having contextual ads off to the right of the home screen, that get their context from the contents of the automatically transcribed voice mail. This is exactly how they make money from Gmail. If you notice… everything they do is about exposing people to their contextual ads in new ways… or offering things that cost them nearly nothing (like Google Docs), but cost their competition money and get people attached to the Google brand and cloud computing, which they dominate.

Am I crazy, doc?
Nancy

PS — love your posts!!!

Because, eventually, it will. Maybe you’ll sit through a 30-second spot before your call begins, or every 15 minutes, your call will be interrupted by a 10-second spot.

That’s not “if”… that’s “when.”

Yeah, I’m an old skeptic…