GrandCentral doesn’t replace your phones; GrandCentral just links them together and help them do more.
How does GrandCentral do that?
GrandCentral gives people One Number…for LifeTM - a number that’s not tied to a phone or a location - but tied to user. With GrandCentral, you can be reached with a single number, answer a call at any phone you want, seamlessly switch phones in the middle of a call, and even know whether a call is important before you take it.
What else can one do with GrandCentral?
- Check your messages by phone, email, or online
- Keep all your messages online for eternity
- Record and store your phone calls (just like voicemail)
- Quickly (and secretly) block an annoying caller
- Click-to-dial from your address book
- Surprise your callers with a custom voicemail greeting
- Turn your Mp3s into the ring tones your callers hear
- Forward, download, and add notes to your messages
Earlier we had written about ChaCha’s intention to offer around 10$ an hour for being ChaCha guide. Now Google is coming out with a Google User Experience Research, which lets people to use its products and get paid to provide feedback. Those testers will typically be paid $75 an hour for time spent with Google researchers. Participants can also fill out surveys online or answer questions over the phone.
Check the FAQ Page of Google User Research Experience and fill the form available here. The FAQ page gives you details about you get paid, about the time commitment that is required, what kind of people they are looking for are some of the important details that you can find out there. More importantly here is one sample answer “We can’t guarantee that you’ll be invited to participate in a study, and it may be some time before you hear from us – we will keep your details on file until a study comes up that we think you would be suitable for. Then we will contact you to set up a date and time.” Still it hardly takes 10 minutes of your time to become a Google Tester.
We infact had some problem while filling out the form. The survey pages got timed out quite often inspite of accessing from a broad band. This could be due to huge registrations occuring at Google. So check out as early as possible.