Yesterday, Ken Yarmosh invited me to join GrandCentral, Google’s ultra-phone utility. A Skype competitor, GrandCentral alsooffers find-me, follow-me with landline service, and assigns a local # to your account. This consolidates numbers into one new number, which provides find me follow me to services to all of your phone numbers.

As a CEO always on the run, my phone number un-manageablity has significantly increased. There’s a work number, a work cell phone and a personal cell phone. I actually turn the work cell off, and increasingly less and less people have access to it.

But the very important people in my life still have a hard time finding me. They call the bat phone, which tends to stay at home. Now I can give them my GrandCentral number and they can find me on any of the lines. And it’s got some neat ring-tones, etc. Best yet, it’s freeware. Sweet. Others like Paul Colligan also see the potential in this nice freeware product.

This product is still in Beta, and may not be business ready yet as evidenced by the number reassign debacle 400 users experienced this week. But in spite of the bump, it seems that Google was smart to acquire GrandCentral. If you need an invite to beta trial GrandCentral, email me (geoff [at] livingstonbuzz com).

Update: As of 8/17, 10:19 a.m. I no longer have any GrandCentral invites left. Sorry!