Jangl, Private Phone Numbers
SiliconBeat has a story, “Jangl’s new angle on phone calling:” [link to http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2006/05/28/jangls_new_angle_on_phone_calling.html no longer works]
Jangl [http://www.jangl.com/] is a new phone service that, initially anyway, will allow people to anonymize their phone numbers the same way they can their email addresses when posting on places such as craigslist. When you sign up with Jangl, you get access to disposable phone numbers that you can share with friends or strangers with whom you transact business. The phone numbers forward to your real number and anonymize in both directions.
Seems like a very cool idea. There’s lots of devils in the details, but I generated a one-shot email address to sign up for some one-shot phone numbers.
I imagine single women would love these.
I have been using talktrust.com for dating.
Also saw a few people using it for auction sites.
You could start using talktrust right now..
Jeda
Amazing – this web thing!
I saw two other people pointing out an alternative!
I went by Jangl, and have been a TalkTrust user.
I don’t see anything in Jangl to prompt me to switch from TalkTrust as well.
In fact, I have four free extensions on TalkTrust and I use them to partition my interests.
Beth
Hi Beth,
How do you explain the extensions with Talktrust? I can’t fairly give out a “home phone” with an extension, can I?
Adam,
I don’t use someone else’s phone either, do I?
Jangl trying to circulate so called
disposable numbers. I’d rather have a clean extension
rather than a disposable number previously used
by some escort??? Would you??
Tara.
I suppose it depends on how long the numbers rest between assignments.