{"id":52,"date":"2006-03-30T10:40:10","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T17:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2006-03-30T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2006-03-30T17:40:10","slug":"so-much-for-411","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"So Much for 411"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, so I just heard about this on Pirillo’s podcast moments ago, but I’m as impressed as he was so I figure it warrants some blog time.\u00a0 1-800-411-SAVE<\/font><\/a> is the new way to access directory services from your phone.\u00a0 Similar to what Movie Phone did to calling movie theaters directly, this service has the potential to make 411 type directories obsolete.\u00a0 1-800-411-SAVE is an advertising based directory service.\u00a0 Hence, there is no direct charge to the user.\u00a0 If you don’t mind listening to a 10 to 15 second add while getting your number, you’re going to save a buck.\u00a0 But that’s not really what makes this cool.\u00a0 Two additional features really stand out:\u00a0 First, how many times have you been disconnected when using a 411 service and had to call right back (incurring an additional charge)?\u00a0 Fear not, 1-800-411-SAVE remembers the number you looked up last.\u00a0 When you call, the first thing it does is ask if you’d like to hear the last number you looked up.\u00a0 Second, a provided option is text messaging the number to you.\u00a0 In the tests I ran, it also sent me the address of the businesses I looked up.\u00a0 That is an extremely handy service.
\nThe significant drawback this has is that it does not allow you to automatically connect to the number (and that is not a trivial drawback).\u00a0 However, the ability to have the info text messaged to you overcomes that in my mind.\u00a0 Once\u00a0texted, you have it on your phone for\u00a0a reference or you can easily add it to your contacts.\u00a0 Very handy indeed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, so I just heard about this on Pirillo’s podcast moments ago, but I’m as impressed as he was so I figure it warrants some blog time.\u00a0 1-800-411-SAVE is the new way to access directory services from your phone.\u00a0 Similar to what Movie Phone did to calling movie theaters directly, this service has the potential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crapmonkey.com\/podcast\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}