Matching Up With Jangl
Things come in waves, they say. The latest wave is dating and privacy. Close on the heels of TalkPlus’ announcement Monday, Match.com rolled out a new service, today, called MatchTalk. MatchTalk allows prospective couples to talk with each other without ever exchanging their REAL phone numbers — just a match number. Whitelabeled from the Jangl team, the service works like this:
- When you find someone you want to talk with, click on the Talk to Her/Him button on your match’s profile.
- Enter your phone number in the form. It must be a phone that supports caller ID, as the system uses your caller ID to recognize who’s calling.
- The other person will receive an email with your request to talk.
- If the recipient accepts, MatchTalk creates a new phone number unique to your connection together.
- You will each then receive emails with your unique MatchTalk number.
- Through this new number, you can call each other anytime, just as would with a normal phone number. Your personal numbers remain concealed. Incoming calls will be routed to the private numbers you originally specified.
Remind you of another model? Yep… Rebtel! Except that the appeal here isn’t cheap long distance, but rather anonymity.Â
It’s an old idea, long talked about, but its time has apparently come. Not a moment too soon, it would seem, as online predators seem become increasingly common.Â
Congratulations to the Jangl Team on this win.Â
November 16th, 2006 at 3:12 am
[...] It’s nothing new; Jangl offers their own semi-anonymous calling. Match.com has just integrated Jangl tech [Alec Saunders] into their offering. MatchTalk sets up a unique phone number between each two members that want to connect, so their own phone numbers don’t have to be handed out until and if they are ready. This is a step up from Verbdate, which reveals your Skype username if you allow it to be public. Now if someone just added semi-anonymous video calling, touch, smell, etc., nightclubs might just go out of style. But seriously, long-distance relationships would be easier to maintain. [...]
November 28th, 2006 at 2:53 am
[...] So…the cat is finally out of the bag – yes we are in partnership with Match.com. It was written about here, here, here, here, here, here and here. Thanks to those in the blogosphere who covered this accurately. While we are going into open beta with the Jangl branded service any day now, we have been in production with Match.com across the U.S. for a week, and prior to now had been in a tri-city pilot for the last four months. [...]
February 3rd, 2007 at 9:44 pm
hmm look at http://www.lets101.com they are already doing this.