FRONT ROYAL, VA—I am in Front Royal, Virginia. Next stop: Grand Central.

En route to the South I managed to cross the Mason-Dixon and I am bedded down. Away from home, I am still able to manage all my messages and phone calls online using Google’s great new acquisition.

If you are in the U.S and have a Blogger account you can now sign up for the Grand Central beta for free. The Skype and Telco assasinator has pulled in, is locking down the bandwidth and is now open for business.

What does it means? It means you can pick a phone number from anywhere in the U.S. and have all calls made to it forwarded to you for free. If you have a friend in Nebraska you can get a number from there and talk to each other all day and night. For free.

I am using it now. It works!

Other features:

• Reply to a voice message with one click.
• Access a central messaging system with a personal message where all your messages are archived. You can keep, forward, and respond to the messages.
• Ring different phones based on who is calling!
• There’s also call display and number display. Call blocking, screening, notifications to text or email… the list goes on.

Basically, Grand Central offers one single number through which you can run all your numbers, emails, and personas. And, for now, it is free.

No Blogger account? I have invites for people who want to hop aboard the Google train with me.

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