Talking about free nationwide telephony using Google Talk Beta: https://www.google.com/voice
and its Voicemail Transcription and other Features.

http://tr.im Out of Business:
Shows that a clever URL is NOT enough alone for a Business Model anymore,
(In case you wondered: ".IM" is the "Isle of Man" a quasi-independant island between England and Ireland)
More Here: https://www.nic.im . These are "political entity" domains ("country" is too divisive a term!)
More here on GENERIC domains: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain like
.COM .NET & .ORG and some fascinating History due to one Jon Postel (R.I.P)

To check who these funky Top Level Domains like "IM" are, just add: "NIC." in front
These are called Domain Hacks, such as the "TV" domain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tv for "Tuvalu", an independant South Pacific country, see http://nic.tv operated by Verisign

http://www.tinyurl.com still continues as a service to shorten massive URL AND now allows Customising, IE: http://www.tinyurl.com/kvmr895

A little Info about Frontrunning Domain Names  (Old News)

"JoeJob" Spamming Floors TWITTER due to political commentary… about Russia/Georgia conflict

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