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Google. Eggs. Basket. (Yet again)

Google has announced Google Voice, which gives you one phone number that will ring on all your phones — mobile, landline, whatever. It’ll do the same for text messages (send them to one or all your phones, that is.) It’ll even create text-based voicemails automatically. (It’d be a hoot to see how well it would handle my mother-in-law’s English midlands accent.) Coverage from David Pogue at the NY Times and TechCrunch.

Even if there wasn’t a waiting list for Google Voice for like the next 6 centuries already, I still wouldn’t use the service. I think I’m suffering from I Already Have Given Google Too Much Of My Personal Information Fatigue (otherwise known as IAHGGTMOMPIF). Let me just reiterate a quote from Om Malik that I included in my second “All Your Eggs In One Basket” post (btw, here’s the first one as well):

“Google has become the single point of failure in our digital lives, whether we like it or not.”

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on March 12, 2009 (boomark / email).