Do you even need a phone number anymore?

Do you even need a phone number anymore? Maybe not, at least not in the future. Check out this article from TechCrunch:
"Phone Numbers Are Dead, They Just Don’t Know It Yet"
http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/28/phone-numbers-dead/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

What exactly is the difference between email, chat, voice calls, etc.? Well, whatever difference there is appears to be shrinking.

Google Voice Blog: Make and receive calls in Gmail
http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/make-and-receive-calls-in-gmail.html

GMail Blog: Call phones from Gmail
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/call-phones-from-gmail.html

Be sure to check out the funny video (same video on both blog posts)!

P.S. I've used this for months now internally. It rocks!