Jajah releases in-email calling, for free
Jahah, the Internet telephone company, has introduced a new service that lets you make free calls from email from a one-click calling button.
Its button also works from websites, blogs or social network profiles.
It’s just the latest innovation in the Internet telephone world, where start-ups are delivering an array of buttons letting you make free calls. At first glance, this latest feature from Jajah could prove to be incredibly viral.
The USAToday just wrote a piece looking at how these “J” companies — Jajah, Jaxtr and Jangl — embody the new Silicon Valley dot.com boom. (The story cites us at VentureBeat a few times. I’m quoted saying “you can’t find anyone who doesn’t have a business plan sticking out of their pocket.” USAToday’s author Michelle Kessler also cites me saying there “will be a lot of cold showers.”).
We’ve seen several iterations of the in-email phone button lately. We’ve written about Yoomba, and Orgoo (though Orgoo doesn’t let you make the calls from your existing email; you need to use its email platform). Other services give you ways to integrate phone links within your email, i.e, so that you can click on phone numbers and make calls from say Skype or some other service. Xobni is doing that, as are more mature players like Zimbra (recently bought by Yahoo).
Jajah calls its service the first, truly global click-to-call service” (it is available in more than 120 countries).
Also, the service won’t reveal your phone number to the caller.
Unlike other services, the call buttons are also customizable (size, color, style), and you can you set the time when you are free to accept phone calls. You can also rejecting or block phone numbers. The buuttons are available as a Flash widget, click-to-call buttons or a simple plain text link.
So, to let relatives call you for free, you add your button to your email signature, send them the email, they click on it and call you - they don’t have to be registered and there is no local numbers play
Jajah also crows that it’s a quick, cheap way for a small or medium sized business to own a toll-free number for customers to call them for free from anywhere in the world.
Source: VentureBeat