Google started (and then stopped) offering 25 free business cards to people with Google Voice accounts. It seems like a way to encourage people to give out their Google Voice number. Also, I hope that it helps to educate the populace about what a Google Voice number is. Too many people get confused when I call or text them from my Google Voice number and later from some other number. Admittedly, I should route more of my outgoing cell phone calls through Google Voice, but my phone is only moderately smart (not iPhone/Android smart, i.e., not smart enough to run special apps), so extra steps are required.
Back to the business cards: The cards were supposed to be delivered to the first 50000 people to request them, but according to a Twitter post from one of the Google Voice team on the evening of July 23rd, they
had to turn off the biz card promotion: too many requests!, our partner got overloaded! Will bring it back shortly. bear with us! Thx!
The URL for the promotion,
https://www.google.com/voice/promo/iprint, is not working at present. Unofficial look-alike cards may be obtained in exchange for money from
here.
UPDATE: The promotion is active and still open as of August 1, 2009.
Back to the business cards: The cards were supposed to be delivered to the first 50000 people to request them, but according to a Twitter post from one of the Google Voice team on the evening of July 23rd, they 
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