Yahoo! is moving in the right direction, and a very exciting one for all parties involved, and here’s why.

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Not exactly a new idea in terms of its social context…I’ve seen free voicemail given to homeless people at least several years ago. But it’s obviously a highly meritable act.

What IS relatively new is the slick phone aggregation service called GrandCentral that Google bought last Summer (2007). I happened to start using about a month ago, and I LOVE it. GrandCentral’s tagline does a great job of explaining: “One Number that rings all your phones. One Voicemail box, all your messages in one place. So Many Features, you won’t believe it”. Yes, there have been several attempts at the “one number, one box” idea (and I’ve tried them), but nothing anywhere this sophisticated, practical and user friendly. And as usual with Google, it’s free.

Google has made an announcement that could help hundreds of homeless people in San Francisco get back on their feet. Every single homeless person in the city will be given a life-long phone number and voicemail.

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On February 26, Yahoo plans to beta launch Yahoo Buzz as a competitor to Digg, and a tipster supplied Valleywag with screenshots. Buzz, built under the direction of VP Tapan Bhat, will begin with a limited number of publishers — about 100 — and will rank stories based on popular search results and user voting.
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Commonplace in the software world are the ongoing announcements of latest released versions by the various competing platforms. Something you may NOT see very often amongst corporate competitors are prominent displays of congratulations for a company’s competitors on it’s own home page. Maybe the Open Source Community is just a little odd that way.

Congratulations to Drupal

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While this 6.0 new version announcement may be not terribly interesting to most people in the Social Space, a intriguing glimpse of Open Source Community perspective can be gleaned from the next post above.

Version 6.0 of Drupal, popular social publishing platform for countless web sites, has been released. This version of Drupal is easier to use for administrators, themers and developers alike. Check out the many great new features such as an improved installer, OpenID support, drag-n-drop, actions and triggers, and better internationalization.

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After a successful run of the video “How To Raise Money from VCs,” the recently funded 5min is following up with an equally funny sequel instructional clip called “How to Negotiate–Tips for Yahoo!”

If you’re a heavy Gmail user, you’ve probably heard that Google is in the developmental stages of “socializing” Gmail so that it becomes a social network defacto, instead of the wolf in sheep’s clothing that it is now. If you just can’t wait for Gmail’s finished product, one noted PR Media figure has devised a work around.

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