Thoughts after getting my new phone number

bijan:

I’ve been playing around with Google Voice for some time now.

It’s not perfect by any means and it certainly isn’t perfect on my iPhone (which I had to jailbreak to support GV Mobile)

But it’s good enough for my needs and as a result I changed my number yesterday.

The next step was to communicate my new number to my family, friends and business associates. So, I went through my entire address book, selected each person that should have my new number and added them to the bcc line. Then, I sent out an email with my new number. This was painful on my end. Even worse, i’m sure it wasn’t a great experience for the folks on the receiving end of that email broadcast.

First, there is a reasonable chance that my email ended up in their junk folder because they are on the bcc line in a mass mailing. And if it shows up in their inbox it’s just yet another email in that sea of noise.  Finally, it then requires the recipient to copy that number into their address book manually.

(I did make the change to my facebook profile but I keep my friend list quite small on that service).

There has to be a better way.

I vented my frustration yesterday and my friend Rich Miner