Whozat, Inc. News Bites

Sad day: Steve Jobs is dead. The King is dead. Long live the King. on October 05

Whozat founder selected TED-X speaker at upcoming conference http://tedxrosario.com.ar/oradores/ on June 02

Hiring a trustworthy and organized executive assistant with great follow up. Send resume and cover letter to careers@abinventio.com on April 14

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate. --Thomas Watson, Founder, IBM on March 19

I was honored to be the keynote speaker at Tech Week last week, an honor that was previously accorded Nobel Prize winner David Baltimore, Cisco CEO John Chambers, ex-CEO of Adobe Bruce Chizen, Chairman of Deloitte Touche Sharon Allen, and astronaut Sally Ride. on January 25

Off to Las Vegas this week, then to Prague and Vienna. Will you be there? on October 24

Whozat and Social Diligence praised today in PIMagazine.com: "I have personally run searches through this search engine against several well known search engines and have indeed been surprised with information that was found...additionally, I have found several email addresses" on September 13

May be flying to Central Florida tonight. Any of you there? on September 13

Looking for a great Ruby on Rails developer. Know any? Contact careers abinventio.com on September 11

SocialDiligence.com has launched Watchlist Beta, to keep track of all the people you care about (and not just what they want you to know). on September 11

Thanks to the distinguished judges for naming me one of 40 under 40 at their televised awards gala at the site of the original Oscars Monday! The best part was meeting the other 39 and the judges and sponsors. on July 30

ab|inventio, our parent company, named most Innovative Company of the Year in North America Distinguished Honoree by the International Business Awards, alongside Salesforce.com and a few others. on July 18

Off to Orlando, then Boston over the weekend to speak at the H+ conference at Harvard, through Monday. Then off to NY the following Monday for the ABA awards banquet and to Philadelphia the following day. Let me know if you are there and want to meet. on June 09

SocialDiligence.com traffic continues to grow rapidly, and is projected to approach half a million unique visitors per month this month, up 60% already from April, which was itself up 44% over the month before. on May 13

Whozat, Inc. signed agreements with Classmates and Ancestry.com. on April 24

SocialDiligence.com traffic continues to go through the roof. Average 383% growth per month since launch. New record this week. on April 14

Our partner US Search was sold today to Intelius. And 123people was sold this week to the French Yellow Pages for what's rumored to be 10-15M Euros. Lots of consolidation going on in the industry, and few independent players left. on March 25

A customer yesterday bought one Social Diligence report. Came back immediately to buy another one. Then signed up for our unlimited subscription. She must have liked what she found! on February 13

Not happy with Paypal as our online payment receiving system at SocialDiligence.com. Any recommendations? on February 10

75% of those who try a SocialDiligence subscription have kept it. "I learned things about myself I didn't know. Seriously. And now I'm checking on you." -- Prof. Harry Lewis, Harvard University. http://socialdiligence.com on January 19

Social Diligence launched a free trial of our power people search subscriptions --check it out at http://www.SocialDiligence.com on January 15

Like Whozat? Vote for your favorite company at http://vator.tv/competition/show/vator-splash-competition Thanks! on January 14

SocialDiligence broke several new records Tuesday: More than 100,000 visits total, record revenues, and a whopping 25% return purchase rate (i.e. a second purchase from the same user) within one hour. In fact, two thirds of returns upgraded to an unlimited subscription. on January 14

SocialDiligence.com has seen a significant number of repeat buyers, showing that customers find our social search reports worth paying for. Traffic has grown by a median of 68% per *week* for the last 8 weeks, through the holidays, for a total of 19,400% growth in 2 months. on January 12

Traffic up 15-fold this month at SocialDiligence.com . Happy holidays! on December 25

SocialDiligence.com traffic up 500% in a week. Check out why by uploading your resume to it and learning what we know about you! on December 04

Please vote for us at http://vator.tv/competition/show/vator-splash-competition#participants on December 03

#new_way_to_work: http://blog.abinventio.com/2009/11/30/whozat-a-new-way-to-work/ on November 30

Whozat launched a new free email address finding feature. Check it out at www.whozat.com and let us know what you think. on November 19