I’ve added Jaxtr – gonna help me test it?

By on February 25, 2007 in News

Right I’ve been playing with Jaxtr.

The essential info:

Jaxtr was founded in October 2005 by Phillip Mobin and Touraj Parang with the mission to bring voice to social networks and blogs. With the free jaxtr service, users can link their phones with their online network to hear from callers worldwide while keeping their existing phone numbers private.

I’ve added in the little widget on the right hand side of every SMS Text News page. Can you see it?

Here’s what it looks like:
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Now, can you give it a go?

I’ve hooked it directly to my primary phone. With the little flash interface you can place a call directly to me. Neat, eh?

What’s more you can send me a text — or an email — directly from it too.

Now, I am rarely ever able to answer my handset because I’m usually sat in front of someone talking to them, or I’m sleeping, or I’m on the train and, alas, T-Mobile doesn’t cope that well on trains. Feel free to try calling. I haven’t tried it yet.

If you’ve a spare minute, click on the send-text link from Jaxtr as I’m keen to see how that works. Send me a little note. If I get it, I’ll publish it. Provided you’re not being rude ;-)

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  • HeavyLight

    So a visitor to your website/blog clicks on the widget, which asks for their name and phone number.
    Jaxtr then calls them and, while playing an advert, connects to your nominated phone or voicemail.
    It tells you who’s calling (how’s that done?) and if you accept the call, connects you with the caller.

    And you’ve then got a (presumably very long) phone number on which you can call the person back?

    Is that about right?
    If so, is that ‘return’ phone number charged at less than a premium rate?
    And you can update your incoming phone number frequently via web/wap?

    Wow!

    (You might like to let Jaxtr know that the widget seems to be mapping keystrokes to the US layout, ie. the @ symbol is shift-2.)

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