For the record, I have never, and will never, edit my own Wikipedia entry (Rogers Cadenhead talks about how Wikipedia’s founder Jimmy Wales edits his) . If you all think I’m a jerk I’ll leave that up there as part of the public record.

I just got a voice mail from Ian McCarthy, VP of marketing at Orb announcing V4S, the first software for free Web voice messaging, enabling users to send voice messages to any email or Skype contact. Works on mobile phones too. First time I’ve gotten a product pitch via voice mail. I hope that doesn’t become a common thing, but why not go the next step? “Send to podcast.” Now that’d be cool!

Bill Campbell of Skype Journal has more. Official press release here. v4s available for download here.

Simple, all they talk about is their “achievements.”

Every owner I’ve met has already started bragging about their latest “achievements.” Don’t know what these are? Well, MSN Search brought me these answers:

1) Gaming Steve notes that Xbox 360 Achievements seem to be inspired by the Atari 2600.
2) The Xbox360ballyhoo blog points us at the fragism site that has a list of achievements for all the games.

They are basically things you get after completing various tasks. Last night I saw that folks are getting very competitive when playing games. By the way, the audio capabilities work very well (we were talking with people around the world while playing games).

Of course, you might know you’re talking with an Xbox owner if they have some Xbox earplugs. Thanks to Major Nelson (aka Larry Hryb of the Xbox Live team) for bringing us those.

One last big of Xbox reactions: the Xbox Live arcade games are the shiznit. I could play Geometry Wars for hours. They took “old style” arcade games and gave them modern graphics. The grid on Geometry Wars is wild. I’d love to talk to the developer who did that and learn about the algorithms behind it.

Are you hearing about achievements? Getting tired of it already too? I think that’ll be the new way to be annoying at holiday parties this next week “I have 24 achievements, how many do you have?” Heheh.