Okay, just because I was talking about it over the weekend, I have to post this up here.  This has been waiting to be blogged, sitting in an “unread” email that I sent myself on 5/22/07.  It has been so long that the URL I saved off was no longer valid.  I don’t even remember anymore where I heard about it.  I give you YouMail.

I’m sure you’ve probably seen services like this by now and I haven’t tried this one, but this just happens to be the one I stumbled across and it sounds pretty cool.  There are two features that seem particularly neat to me.  The first is that you can save and listen to your voice mails as mp3s.  I remember a couple of years ago, a co-worker had a VoIP service that would email him at work when he received a voice mail at home and the voice mail would be attached to the email.  How cool is that?  I assume this is the same type of deal.  It sure beats calling home to check your messages!  The second service that seems handy is the ability to leave an individual outgoing voice mail message per person.  It would be pretty fun in general, but I can also see some uses for it.  So like, imagine you know someone is going to call you to see what you are doing later and you really want to hang out with them, but you are going into a meeting or something where you can’t have your phone on.  You don’t want to change your outgoing message to “Hello anybody who calls me, but I’m not going to be home tonight between 9 and 12.  And prospective employer?  I’ll be out drinking.”  And that doesn’t even get into the implications for juggling multiple girls on the side! 😉

So anyway, I came across that link more than a year ago and I thought it was cool and I wanted to share it, but I never got around to it.  And now I have.