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One of the funniest and "out of the box" new consumer internet start-up services I've seen spring up in recent weeks is something called the Popularity Dialer (hat-tip Ted Leonsis). 

Most of us remember a time in our past, or a moment in our future, where we could possibly use something like this. 

I haven't used their service yet, but very well may try it out.  It could very well qualify as a "Thriller!" service.

So what do they do?  Well, in their words,

"Have you ever been in a situation where you wished your cell phone would ring? Maybe you wanted to look extra important or popular on that hot date. Or maybe you just needed an excuse to escape from an unpleasant meeting.

With "The Popularity Dialer", you can plan ahead. Via a web interface, you can choose to have your phone called at a particular time (or several times). At the elected time, your phone will be dialed and you will hear a prerecorded message that's one half of a conversation. Thus, you will be prompted to have a fake conversation and will easily fool those around you.

They've got different samples of each of the calls you can listen to on their site (female voice, male voice, boss call, etc.).

For the moment the service is free, but one can see how people might pay for this.

They've got some new features in the works, which you can see here...my most anticipated one is this one:

"1) Popularitydialer calls activated via text message"

Now there's a real good use for SMS text messaging.

Although I'd of course never use this service as advertised, there's another practical use for a service like this, that I could be swayed to try:  on the road wake-up calls, to back up the hotel's service.

Now, there's  a service we've all wished for at the right price (free).

Any other uses that come to mind?

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