GrandCentral: receive calls and post voicemail with your blog

Google has announced a new way for bloggers to receive calls from readers:

When you add GrandCentral’s WebCall button to your blog, your readers can easily call your phone or leave voicemails without ever seeing your telephone number.

You can screen calls, either accepting them or sending them to voicemail, and you can even block unwanted callers altogether.

This is interesting, but I can't see a lot of people calling me. This service is still in beta mode.

But that's not all my friends.

The Big G also announced AdSense for video in beta:

This approach takes the same non-intrusive InVideo ad format used on YouTube and extends it across video partner sites on the Google Content Network. This enables advertisers to run a single campaign across the largest network of online video content.

Unique to AdSense for video are text overlay ads contextually targeted to a combination of signals in your videos and on your site. With these overlay ads, the user's experience is not interrupted; users determine how much they want to interact with the ad.

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