Jangl, which enables mutually-anonymous communication, today opened up its service to all the US based customers. To use Jangl you need to signup for the service at the site by creating a Jangl ID and registering your personal phone number where you want to receive your calls. After that you are all set to talk anonymously with people to whom you give out your Jangl ID.
Person knowing your Jangl ID can go to the Jangl website and generate a phone number to connect to you. Whenever the person calls that number, Jangl connects the call to your personal phone provided, to enable a completely anonymous call.
Jangl provides the ability to publicize your ID using a widget, and also enables you to disable Jangl numbers to prevent further communication.
However you need remember that Jangl creates a phone number for each person you want to contact through Jangl. So your anonymous calling list can grow pretty rapidly if you try publicizing your Jangl ID too much. There are also chances of abuse of the product, but I feel Jangl customer service should be able handle that easily.
Besides this launch annoucement, Jangl had recently entered into partnership with Match.com to provide Match.com users with the ability to talk with each other anonymously, which is a perfect target market for Jangl.
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Jangl
February 5, 2007 at 2:18 pm |
Well there is another startup http://www.lets101.com which has taken the idea to next step! it allows you to search others and listen to their introduction directly on phone and connect to anyone with just a key press on dialpad (ofcourse without revealing your phone number)
have a look at http://www.lets101.com/guest/faq#QLets101
to know more
Nitin
February 13, 2007 at 11:35 pm |
[...] Previously I have written about couple of similar services that enable anonymous calling- Jangl and SubjectTalk. Don’t think both have been really successful at their plans. Anonymous chat using the Wambo widget is the right way to get connected with people. Personally I have been getting far better response with Wambo as compared to Jaxtr’s anonymous calling and voicemail widget that had generated lot of buzz when it had launched late last year. [...]
March 27, 2007 at 10:18 pm |
[...] Jangl today launched a new version of its widget that has improved a bit functionality but still lags Jaxtr’s feature set. Jangl had launched the widget initially last year that you could embed on your blog to show your Jangl ID. The limitations, as I had noted before, were pretty obvious. [...]
May 23, 2007 at 3:53 pm |
[...] If you have been following Jangl’s product path coverage at StartupSquad, their strategy is one of the best out there. They had started off with an partnership with Match.com, and followed up with couple of more bigger ones with Tagged and SixApart. All along users have been enabled to grab the widget from the website itself. The new feature today would get it far more traction since it puts Jangl right into the most used collaboration platform. In my talk with Jangl team earlier today, the mentioned that Jangl has already crossed the 500K active registered userbase mark, which happened couple of weeks back. Major push in those numbers came from the recent partnerships. [...]
August 24, 2008 at 12:03 am |
There is another free site that lets you accept calls anonymously without revealing your phone number – http://letscall.me/