I just starting playing with GotVoice, a service that will allow you to integrate voicemail with tools like e-mail and Instant Messaging (IM). In my case, I’m having voice mail left on my cellphone with Verizon delivered to my e-mail inbox as a link. So far it’s working flawlessly. I’ll update with details of my experience with it as I try out the service in-depth.

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Yesterday Adobe Software released a major upgrade to its Creative Suite, including Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Acrobat 8.0 Professional, Fireworks CS3, Contribute CS3, Dreamweaver CS3, InDesign CS3, After Effects CS3, Premiere Pro CS3, Soundbooth CS3, and Encore CS3. It’s exciting whenever Adobe releases new software package, but since Adobe and Macromedia have merged, it’s the single source for software most interactive professionals use on a daily basis. Most of my day is spent shuffling between the browser, Photoshop and Dreamweaver, so anything that makes that a more seamless, productive and creative experience is welcome. Prices & features below:

Adobe: Launch Event Webcast, Creative License Promo

It’s expected to ship April 30, 2007.

Think Secret: Adobe Creative Suite 3 pricing revealed

Released in 2004, Google Book Search has surmounted legal and technical obstacles to move from fanciful idea to breathtaking reality. It currently has over 10,000 public domain works indexed and scans more than 3,000 books a day.

Tech oracle and book entrepreneur Tim O’Reilly recounts an impressive story on how Google Books is having real, present effects on how academics are conducting research - How Google Books is Changing Academic History.

USA Today ran a recent article Working out of a ‘third place’ that put a name to my nomadic existence.

An estimated 30 million Americans, or roughly one-fifth of the nation’s workforce, are part of the so-called Kinko’s generation, employees who spend significant hours each month working outside of a traditional office.

This rootless army is growing 10% annually, according to Gartner Dataquest research. The reason? Corporations are increasingly supportive of teleworking for reasons that range from saving money on office space to needing a backup in the event of a natural disaster or terror attack.

“With technology what it is, it’s far easier to bring the work to the people than the people to the work,” says Jim Ware of the Future of Work, a Bay Area enterprise that helps large companies such as Boeing anticipate workplace trends.

Most of the time I like to go in to my office downtown, but since I moved to a coffee-shop rich environment with seemingly universal wi-fi, I’ve found it increasingly convenient to set up shop at Julie Victoria Cafe, Crossroads Coffee or Salento’s .