Paul Kedrosky has an article, Fun With Mobile Apps, that mentions a website called CallTheFuture.org. Although I believe in the idea, something that is long overdue in my opinion, the site only offers computer generated, text-to-speech regurgitation of your message.Â? There is also the question of privacy that comes from using the site, with your number being a potential target for telemarketing and text advertising.

Google and Yahoo! are just two of manyÂ? companies thatÂ? are pushing forward with digital voice technology - like the ability toÂ? send and receiveÂ? voicemail. I posted yesterday about these companies needingÂ? to move more into the mobile market, and this would be an ideal first move to make. People could send themselves voice notes. Some cellphones probably have this type of built in feature, but these functions are often foreign andÂ? less user-friendly than an online model. Especially if the user is already familiar with the feature, like Google and Yahoo! users would be. These sites are probably easier to trust with information like cell numbers, or at least they would be much more discrete in the way they exploit the information.Â? The creation of these types of mobile apps are great, but they still seem way behind whatÂ? current technology should support.

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