It's been fun to watch what was an early rendition of our story expand from what was one blog by Mike Bazeley. It was more surprising to see it picked up by Gadgets Blog on CNET, mostly because we haven't even talked with them yet. There was one clarification I thought I'd make to the following blurb from that post:
START BLURB: "The first time someone calls a Jangl number, they go through an approval process that consists of back-and-forth key commands between the caller and the Jangl user.
If the caller is approved, they're added to the "white list" and all succeeding calls are connected more quickly. If a caller is not approved, they will never know the Jangl user's true phone number. The service thus bails the user out of a number of potentially uncomfortable situations."END BLURB
Ok, so there is no set of back and forth key commands. We believe it's critical to make the user experience much more seamless than that.
There is a feature users may or may not choose to use to screen calls. When this feature is enabled, the caller is prompted to make an introduction when calling a jangler, i.e. "Hey it's Mike, the guy from the bar." While Mike holds the jangler's real phone rings and she's allowed to hear the intro, and choose to accept or reject. I think that's what Bazeley was referring to in his post.
One other point to at least allude to...all this talk has been about talk. Guess what else mobile phone numbers are used for? Yep, text. It may turn out that more people jangl with text functionality than voice functionality. We'll test that in the upcoming beta.
-MC
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