Jaxtr brings voice to social networks and blogs

Phillip Mobin and Touraj Parang founded Jaxtr in Oct 2005 with the aim of bringing voice to social networks and blogs.

Using their free service, users place a Jaxtr widget on their online profile or blog. This widget is linked to their phone number of choice (kept completely private). Callers worldwide can then call a local number and leave voice messages for the Jaxtr user. Jaxtr is aiming at all the social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, etc.

A public beta version was released in Mar of this year and now they have users well north of 100,000. Funded by prominent investors like Draper Fisher Jurvetson, The Founders Fund, Richmond Management and angel investors like Ron Conway, Rajeev Motwani and Reid Hoffman, the company has lured Konstantin Guericke, the co-founder of LinkedIn to steer the ship.

Will this fly in the face of the stiff competition? There are others jostling to take a slice of this pie, albeit in different ways (Jangl, GrandCentral - which was recently acquired by Google, Jajah, Talkster and Talkplus).

Let us examine the others too and then then see what shakes out.

Further Reading:

One of Om Malik’s posts regarding Jaxtr
One opinion on the Webware site
Jaxtr on PodTech
On Red Herring
Another blog post on the rising audience of Jaxtr