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But he has learned that instead of arguing his case with Page, a better strategy is “giving him shiny objects to play with.” At the beginning of one Google Voi
by shawnee_ 16y ago
But he has learned that instead of arguing his case with Page, a better strategy is “giving him shiny objects to play with.”
At the beginning of one Google Voice product review, for instance, he offered Page and Brin the opportunity to pick their own phone numbers for the new service. For the next hour, the two brainstormed sequences that embodied mathematical puns while the product sailed through the review.
This was pretty much my experience with getting to choose my own GV number, albeit from a long list of "pre-screened" numbers. Had to stop myself from going through all of them (within an area code) in trying to find a number that was neat / punny / significant.
- Xuzz 16y agoMy Google Voice number ends in "HAXX" if you type it on the phone keypad. I couldn't resist either :(.
- erikpukinskis 16y agoIf you type it on what?
- Xuzz 16y agoThis thing, with the letters: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Telephone-keypad2.svg/500px-Telephone-keypad2.svg.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Tel... (I'm not actually sure what the real name for it is.)
- shrikant 16y agoWow, and the USA is the country that practically invented the system of 1-800-CALL-ME..
- aridiculous 16y agoThis part was where I really started getting suspicious of the journalism. Does anyone really think that two very capable, industrious founders fell for the childish puppeteering distraction by a project manager? This is just Wired appealing to the masses.
- 9999 16y agoBeing very capable and industrious does not make a person invulnerable to the indescribable appeal of picking the most awesome phone number possible. In fact, that's probably the only reason I even tried Google Voice.
- losvedir 16y agoAh, my experience as well! I wanted a cool, easy to remember number, and though a good numeric pattern would do. The obvious ones were taken, so I thought about repeated pairs of numbers. I tried all 100 combinations of two digits, and found a number which begins with 42 repeated 4 times. I wish I knew who the lucky person was who snagged 42 repeated for all ten digits!