Google's 411 Phone Service

This is pretty cool. Google has created a free service accessible from any phone. All you have to do is dial the number, tell them the city and state of interest and then the information you want.

Let's give it a try...

(dialing) ... 1.800 GOOG 411...

The voice asks for a business or listing and city and state. I say "Baton Rouge, LA", " Museum of Natural Science" . Then there is a hilarious data searching filler noise which sounds pretty good for Marsh Wren. It gives me the top result and asks to connect if correct. A total of about 30 seconds has passed and I'm connected to the Museum. I got the machine; I guess it's still a holiday.


Here's a nice demo from the Google posse:

Deezer Smartradio

Internet radio stations aren't new, I have my favorite iTunes radio stations that I frequent. Lately though, I find myself going to this website and setting up smartradio stations. If you aren't familiar with this, you might want to give it a shake. Let's say you are an Iron and Wine fan and want to find more music in the genre. It's plug and chug! You simply provide the artist name and then start the station. I chose a combo of Iron and Wine and Calexico. I didn't even know they had a collaboration.

Maybe you want to explore another era:

Sometimes Deezer will have all the music from a particular album and you can play the whole thing leaving you with this feeling that you've gotten away with something. As far as I can tell it's all legit' with advertisements and links to purchase music as the revenue stream.

Enjoy.