Jangl in the email; Has 500K users

By Vivek | May 23rd, 2007 at 03:49 pm ET         

Team at Jangl is always out there tweaking the service and making sure that users get a frictionless experience. Newest feature from Jangl in that direction is the ability to put your virtual, private and local number in the email address. So, no need to give out your real phone number to everyone. Instead your email address suffixed to the Jangl URL enables others to connect to you while keep your phone number private. From the calling party standpoint it can be a 2-4 step process to get the Jangl number for you depending on if he/she is an existing Jangl user or not.

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.

Features next in line include users being able to receive calls on more than 1 device simultaneously. I think that would help especially if your mobile service sucks and the same number is set to primary at Jangl. Group calling and likes are some of the other features under works.

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