Call Anonymity Thy Name Is Jangl
November 22, 2006Call Anonymity Thy Name Is Jangl
My first reaction to Jangl, ananonymity proxy service for phone numbers, was is that necessary? Butdig a bit deeper and you find out there is value - albeit probably to aspecific niche. But as niches go, it’s potentially a big one. Janglcreates a unique phone number for any pair of people. It saves you fromhanding out your real phone number to someone, if you’re not ready forthat, but allows you
to both communicate. Alec Saunders has some more details,garnered from a chat with Tim Johnson and CEO Michael Cerda. Theservice is being geared towards a dating community, for example.
Considerthe mechanics behind generating unique call numbers between pairs ofpeople. If you have, say, 1,000 members in a dating community, how manypossible unique pairs of people do you have? C(1000, 2) = 1000-choose-2combinations = [1000!/ (1000-2)!]/2! = 1000!/ 2×998! = 1000×999/2 =nearly a half-million generated numbers to serve all possible matchups,if I remember my math correctly. Of course, any one person wouldn’thave to know all those numbers. But there’s a lot of number managementbehind the scenes. More details to come.
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