Bonus: GrandCentral

Bonus site: GrandCentral
Death announcement: November 2009

GrandCentral, the voice service picked up from Google in 2007, then kept dormant for more than a year, will see its end on December 31st. But it's not actually the end of GrandCentral as a service. It was reborn earlier this year as Google Voice.

In lieu of the fact that the two services were essentially the same, and that Google Voice was its second iteration, Google in late November, sent an e-mail to GrandCentral users that the site would be closed down in favor of moving everyone over to Google Voice. Come next week, Google will make good on that promise.