Jajah, a Microsoft Startup Accelerator company has been super busy lately with some really cool deals that place it where the users are. First off, last month, Jajah announced that it will provide voice services for Yahoo Messenger users (a total of 97million people). This marks Jajah's first enterprise client and also marks Yahoo's determination to move into Skype's VoIP-space which is great news for Yahoo users and all users (competition is always welcome). Jajah's subscriber base has jumped to over 10 million in just 2 years since starting in 2006. With the Yahoo deal, it should continue to grow at a pretty steep clip. My erstwhile colleague, Nicolas Kardas, wrote about the company a while back (check out his original blog) when they had 2 million subscribers and were winning multiple industry and startup awards. It looks like they haven't slowed down though Skype's registered user-base stands currently at around 246 million.
The second deal Jajah announced that I thought was neat was their integration with Chumby. Jajah has created a "Jajah Widget" for the Chumby device to allow free PC-to-PC or low-cost calls to mobile and land-lines anywhere in the world. I can have Chumby sit next to my bedside and I can make calls from there.
Lastly, Jajah is working with MobileTribe in order to reach Facebook, MySpace and Yahoo users through a mobile phone to place calls and send SMS. Whether instant messaging, hanging out at home or on my mobile phone, I can make hugely discounted or free calls to my friends and family anywhere in the world thanks to the busy team at Jajah. I'm sure they are as busy as ever work on the next level of integrations.
