Google Voicemail - A Google Voice Tweek

Google has decided that a hack developed by users of the Google Voice system, who didn't want to change their phone number to a Google Voice number, makes sense. The Official Google blog has an announcement regarding a new feature that allows you to use a lighter version of Google Voice with your existing mobile phone number, the trade off is that you will not get all of the features of a full blown Voice account. Oh yeah, and you need an invite to the system before you can get either the light or the full featured versions working. This video gives a great overview of the new lighter version.

I'm still waiting for my invite but it's also unclear what the catch might be for those of us north of the border...

Following Google On Twitter

The folks at Google like to tell us about their every move just like the rest of us Twitter fiends, in fact the Google crew has a number of active Twitter accounts which they've posted links to in the Official Google Blog. If you are a fanboy (or fangirl) of Google and have a particular product that you'd like to keep tabs on check out the list, odds are it's probably covered. According to the OGB "Like lots of you, we've been drawn into Twitter this year. After all, we're all about frequent updates ourselves, and there's lots happening around here that we want to share with you. Of course, we enjoy watching, and contributing to, the tweetstream (we hope you find our tweets useful, too)."

Here are just a few to get you started:

twitter.com/Google - Google's central account
twitter.com/Blogger - for Blogger fans
twitter.com/GoogleCalendar - user tips & updates
twitter.com/GoogleImages - news, tips, tricks on our visual image search
twitter.com/GoogleNews - latest headlines via Google News
twitter.com/GoogleReader - from feed reader team
twitter.com/iGoogle - news & notes from Google's personalized homepage
twitter.com/GoogleStudents - news of interest to students using Google
twitter.com/YouTube - for YouTube fans
twitter.com/YouTubeES - en Espanol
twitter.com/GoogleAtWork - solutions for IT and workplace productivity

First GeoCaching, Now Latituding!

The Official Google Blog is hoping to start a new trend that I'm dubbing Latituding. The idea is to get your friends together and send them out with their smartphones equipped with Google's Latitiude ,and then have them maneuver into position to spell out words. Check out the video and you'll get the picture (grown) ...