Lazyweb: I want an Upcoming Call Queue in my Phone

Partly as a result of Jaiku smart address book, I’ve been thinking about more features I’d like to see in my phone, if it were an open platform rather than a walled garden. Here’s one that occurred to me yesterday: I’d love to be able to send (or sync via my calendar) a set of phone numbers for upcoming calls. Let’s say I have an hour and a half drive to Silicon Valley. It’s usually packed with scheduled calls. Since I’m driving, I either ask people to call me, or try to dial while I’m at a stop light, or write the number on a piece of paper that I can dial from, but it’s all too often a death-defying feat to look up the number in my address book. How nice it would be to have a “scheduled calls” tab in my phone memory — not just recently made, received, or missed calls, but planned calls.

Ideally, on my open phone platform, I could email the numbers to my phone, or SMS them, or sync them from my calendar. But however they got there, they’d show up in this convenient one-touch calling queue.

This is all part of my quest for “Address Book 2.0,” a personal CRM system that would turn the crude address book offered by most products today into a smart platform that learns from my call history (yes, Mr. Phone Carrier, we need APIs to our call history database), lets me annotate it and manage it via an iTunes-like application (which also integrates email history a la xobni), automatic address book extraction for all calls, emails and IM, and so on.

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