I’m not as brave as Robert Scoble to post my cell on this blog, but Grandcentral provides users (and myself) with a nice alternative. I decided to participate in the beta for Grandcentral and signed up just prior to the Google acquisition. It has a range of really neat features such as:

• Choose a unique Grandcentral number which you can choose to publish or not
• Different ring tones for different groups of contacts
• Different announcements
• Access voicemail through a web interface
• Choose which phone (cell, home, office, etc) you want to receive inbound calls
• Set up rules for groups of users so they can or cannot call certain phones
• Ability to screen calls by sending them all to voicemail
• SPAM filter to automatically block or screen calls
• Email/SMS notification of new voicemails
• *@grandcentral.com email forwarding
• Webcall button so people can call you from your website

Here’s a video demonstrating some of the features by the founders:

The beta program has now moved to invitation only although I started with 5 invites, I now only have 3 left. If you’d like an invite, give me a nice, juicy (that’ll appear in technorati) link and send me a quick message. How’s that for linkbait? ;-)