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WhitePages.com buys Snapvine, will provide free voicemail

WhitePages.com
WhitePages.com has announced a deal to purchase Snapvine, a company that provides voice applications for social networking sites. WhitePages plans to continue offering Snapvine's current services, including tools for "voice blogging," leaving voice comments on social networking sites, and adding voice comments to photos. But WhitePages also plans to roll out new services, including:
  • Free, private voicemail boxes
  • Email
  • SMS services
Last month WhitePages abandoned plans to buy Jangl, a similar service. The WhitePages web site includes phone numbers for about 180 million people living in the US. Using Snapvine, WhitePages will be able to let individuals replace their phone numbers on the site with personal voicemail boxes or click to call buttons thet lets people reach them via phone without actually giving away their phone number.

[via TechCrunch]

Filed under: Internet, Web services, web 2.0

EggJax: Five almost related web services in one

EggJax
We're big fans of software that does one thing and does it well. But we also have a soft spot in our hearts for jack of all trades style applications. And EggJax almost falls into the latter category. Except we're not entirely sure why all of these trades are in the same package. Here are the five things you can do from the EggJax page:
  1. Reverse phone number lookup
  2. People finder (enter a name, city, and state and try to find a street address and phone number)
  3. Business directory
  4. Weather forecasts by city
  5. TinyURL creator
Now, maybe it's just us, but one or two of these things are not like the other. Sure, we can imagine a situation where you're looking up an old friend in the city you grew up in, want to find the company where he now works, and then want to check the weather forecast for next week so you know whether to bring an umbrella when you show up to surprise him. But what's the TinyURL clipper for?

[via MakeUseOf]

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