Giving hipsters a jangl

I caught this from Om yesterday, but had to do a little digging and checking before I decided to post.

Jangl This

Written By Om Malik

Hello, this Is Wildfire… how can I help you…

It was a bubble ago, when I was first introduced to Wildfire, a follow-me, find-me telephone service, that tracked me down by serial dialing  all my phone numbers: office, home or mobile phone. Its simplicty is what made it more than memorable, and it is a damn shame it did not catch on with the masses. It was also an early window into the concept of presence, on wireless and wireline networks.

The transition towards an all-IP network might have flattened the network layers, but it has also increased our communication options.From instant messaging, email, Internet phone numbers, wireless numbers and what not. We are becoming instantly reachable, which is great, but it also poses strange problems. Embarrassing IMs projected on the big screen right in middle of a big presentation! It has happened to us before. Those Schmiddy ads by Verizon are very very real.

Perhaps, that is why we need a way to manage our presence. Presence - which determines how we are going to be contacted, by whom, and how much access we can provide to those who want to reach out and touch. Presence, would be our first line of defense in this hyper connected age. I for one use the Cisco Call Manager features that come with my hosted IP-PBX account from M5 Networks. (I have managed to set-up rules to better manage my call-inflow.) Others use Skype to manage their communications flow. But the presence nirvana is still ways off.

So jangl looks interesting, but very oriented towards the singles scene and non-business users. In short, the hip, young, trendy sort that I am most assuredly not. But what did catch my eye is that their VP of Engineering is Douglas Cheline. Not sure if it’s the same Doug Cheline I had some dealings with in years past when he was at Genuity or not. We’ve lost touch over time. But that’s enough of a potential link to have me keep an eye on jangl. And Douglas, if that’s you and you’d like me to take a whack at telling the jangl story, drop a line or call me

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