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Communications - Friday, March 16, 2007

Progress Watch: Grand Central, PowerReviews and Piczo

The New York Time's David Pogue elevates the startup Grand Central with his review: "It’s a rather brilliant melding of cellphone and the Internet." For a $15M monthly fee, Grand Central will unify your home, work and cell phone numbers so that you only have to give out one number. GrandCentral, which is backed by CNET founder Halsey Minor, is getting smother with love by reviewers, but says that the response from the NY Times story has them particularly slammed with sign-ups.

San Francisco-based photo site Piczo claims it did $11M in ad sales revenues last year.

VC-backed customer review services vendor PowerReviews has signed partnership agreements with six e-commerce outsourcing vendors to integrate PowerReviews tag-based customer review technology into 6 vendors e-commerce platforms. The vendors are Art Technology Group, Demandware, Elastic Path Software, Fry Inc., GSI Commerce and Truition.

Read - One Number That Will Ring All Your Phones (NY Times)