Free phone calls with Calling America
http://callingamerica.com/

Make free phone calls! Call the US and Canada without any installation required. Each call can take up to 15 minutes.

Other than a few good natured jabs at their marketing gimmicks and coverage of outages, that is.

Looking for a customer service number? ContactHelp.com will get you there FAST!

Directory of phone numbers for customer service and customer support

Google's upped its pace handing out invites to Google Voice, the service that controls all your phones with one number. For those just arriving, we're offering up a beginner's guide to setting up, transitioning to, bug-fixing, and actually enjoying Google Voice. If you still haven't received an invite or want a clearer picture of what Google Voice actually does, peek first at our screenshot-packed first look and tips on whether you actually need it. Once you accept an invite, register your number, and make your first text or phone call, you might be wondering how to go about actually using Google Voice—after all, nobody's calling you on that number just yet, and your number doesn't have any rules set up to begin with. That's where this guide starts off. There are lots of resources that explain how Google Voice's features work, but we're hoping to help you learn how to get people calling that number, work past the flaws in its system, and manage the callers for a better overall

Insanely brilliant. Via @seldo.

Simple, elegant, and very useful. Brilliant.

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Can record call history when calling a 1800 number

Deep Dialing: Tired of pressing 1 for this and 2 for that? We've mapped out the phone menus for hundreds of companies. Find the spot you need to call, then click, and we'll automatically connect you.

connect more quickly to customer service reps and record the conversation

via kottke

free calls

Lookup US Telephone Number and find out the location

Fritinancy: Ms. Dowd Interviews the Inventor of the Telephone http://bit.ly/TFDAI #feedly [from http://twitter.com/eaton3000/statuses/1600465574]

Fritinancy: Ms. Dowd Interviews the Inventor of the Telephone http://bit.ly/TFDAI Great spoof on the Twitter founder interview. [from http://twitter.com/JEBworks/statuses/1608813581]

Parody of her interview of the founders of Twitter

This is how I describe *any* new technology to folks - like a new version of the telephone

parody of Maureen Dowd's Twitter interview - great!

"I sat down with Mr. Bell, 39, and his assistant Thomas Watson, 22, and asked them to explain why they shouldn't be condemned to a slow, painful death. ME: The telephone seems like letter-writing without the paper and pen. Is there any message that can't wait for a passenger pigeon? BELL: Possibly the message I'd like to deliver to you right now. ME: Did you know you were designing a toy for bored housewives and the indolent rich? BELL: Actually, I was trying to help deaf people."

"ME: I would rather be flayed alive and gradually guillotined than use a telephone."