Back in the days of the Cold War, intelligence analysts would pour over cryptic statements and publicly released photos published in the Soviet-run newspapers to gain clues as to the real state of affairs behind the "Iron Curtain." Today, observers are forced to do the same thing to make educated guesses on what Google is doing with GrandCentral.
The latest clue is the release of Vocito through GoogleCode [1], a Mac desktop user interface for GrandCentral. Vocito enables users to easily dial anyone from their desktop, utilizing GrandCentral to dial a remote phone and a local phone simultaneously to connect people together. For Mac users, it integrates into Address Book, Quicksilver, supports "tel" URLs and is fully scriptable. You can use it to build and save little applets to automatically dial your phone with a double-click.
But what does it mean? In the general discussion of the product, there's the whole "GrandCentral is currently in a limited beta" - a state they've been in since Obama started running for President. But the author urges us to run out and reserve a GrandCentral number now to "get in on the action as soon as more invites become available." Certainly, there's the implication that more invites will become available sometime in the near future, preferably before Obama has to start his re-election campaign.
For more:
- Go visit the Vocito [1] web page. Maybe there's something airbrushed out of the pictures we've missed.
Related articles
Where, oh where, has Grand Central gone? - FierceVoIP [2]
Grand Central: VoIP Fallen, Failed VoIP companies, struggling VoIP ... [3]
Links:
[1] http://code.google.com/p/vocito/
[2] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/where-oh-where-has-grand-central-gone/2008-10-28
[3] http://www.fiercevoip.com/special-reports/grand-central-voip-fallen