The ab|inventio Gazette

Whozat’s revenues have grown consistently for each of the last four months by an average of 419% per month and a median of 161% per month. 

QLess, in the meantime, appeared in the press again, this time in Nation’s Restaurant News, where one of our customers was quoted saying “It’s helped keep customers from walking away,” said Ngo, who was concerned about theft or abuse of restaurant-issued pagers. 

At the same time, we broke two records: first we closed a new customer, eggtc, in the shortest time since lead to customer ever, which also launched faster than any previous customer, with our installation done in less than 24 hours, as usual, but this time they were up and running themselves within 48 hours of that –kudos to Joe. Second, we added our largest individual customer yet, the legendary 58-year-old Zagat-Best-Restaurant-Award-Winning Montgomery Inn, which was named the #1 rib restaurant and the #1 restaurant featuring barbecue in the entire Unites States, and #22 in volume among independent restaurants in the entire US, by “Restaurants & Institutions” magazine, the benchmark of the foodservice industry. Montgomery Inn also broke the customer acquisition timeframe record again, going from lead to customer in a meager 4 days: it doesn’t take the pros long to recognize value when they see it. This reduction in time to sale and time to deployment speak about both about the market’s increasing receptiveness to mobile queueing and to our own increasing understanding of how to position and deploy QLess.

eggtc’s launch has proved the greatest QLess-induced reduction in no-shows yet, with seated rates increasing by 53% on the first two days of QLess deployment.

Continuing with our tradition of highlighting an extraordinary and entrepreneurial person or company who has helped make abInventio a reality, today we focus on Jeff Suto, attorney at law. Jeff compenetrates himself deeply with the companies he works with, becoming an integral part of the team. His advice ranges from the strategic to the legal and yes, even the psychological. He is tremendously fun to work with, and has become a true friend in the years we have worked together. He is a true independent, not bowing to large interests but always true to his clients, and is always making new connections and introductions that might help his clients. He also possesses the valuable ability to dare tell you when he thinks you are wrong. All of which make us extremely privileged to count him among our founding team members.

I really enjoy the service, much easier finding people than Googling!

–Jim 

Thanks, Jim! By the way, apologies to users who found some queries hanging up over the last few days; the problem has been fixed.

 –Alex 

Read our customer’s glowing review of QLess.

In the meantime, an all-new release of Whozat is out: www.whozat.com.  Every site statistic improved with it. Congratulations, Igor, Arthur, Pat & Peter!

QLess is launching in NYC, at the popular Turning Point restaurant chain. Congratulations, Charles!

QLess released a web widget that allows patrons to get in line via the WWW, a bunch of new reports tracking personnel, and a number of other improvements.

QLess monthly usage broke a new record. Holler if you want to get involved or know a place that has lines. No place should. It’s 2009! Cheers, Alex 

A new Whozat look and navigation browser is out! Check it out at www.whozat.com and tell us whether you like it better. Make sure to click on the various tabs. Credits are due to Pat Stern, Arthur Mashinyan, Gevorg, Peter Preksto and of course Igor. Still ironing out a couple of final bugs. Just searched for Yahoo SEM. Google’s top result is an Ambassador certification for 3 employees of Morpheus Media. The good answer is not even in the top 10. In Whozat, it’s one refinement away: http://www.whozat.com/search/?task_id=418873&eventname=expression&object=search%20engine%20marketing&value=yesWhozat away!–Alex 

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We had some issues with our DNS servers today. They should be fixed as soon as our DNS changes propagate across the Internet. If you ever get no response from whozat.com, try going directly to one of our servers, such as http://216.138.118.50 or http://216.138.118.52 .

Our apologies!

–Alex

1. Thus said Federico Picone of Whozat in his DotPod review. Perhaps even more revealing than Federico Picone’s great review of Whozat are his readers’ comments on it:

   “Very interesting tool, really. Thanks for sharing.”

   “This is very good; I have just found 4 people that were well hidden. Found!”

   Thanks, Federico!

   And here is another great review by Extremisimo.

   –Alex

   Whozat: El buscador de personas de la Web 2.0

   Jhony Cogollo 

   Muy interesante la herramienta la verdad. Gracias por compratir la información.

2. RAMMSES wrote:

   Esto está bueno, acabo de encontrar a 4 personas que bien escondidilas estaban. Blanqueadas, ya mismo.

Elgeek.com writes: “we find some interesting results [in Google], but they don’t rise to the level of Whozat’s, which make your hair stand on end”.

Elgeek.com escribe: “muchos (incluyéndome)buscamos en Google información sobre personas que recién conocemos, un posible candidato a empleado, el chico que conocimos en una fiesta o porque somos unos chusmas.

Algunos datos interesantes obtenemos, pero no llegan al nivel de lo que ofrece el buscador de personas Whozat, cuyos resultados hacen parar los pelos. No sólo desconocidos tienen acceso a fotos y datos básicos, sino que éstos llegan a niveles bastante más íntimos”

Whozat: un excelente buscador de personas, escribe Adictosalared.com .Whozat, an excellent people search engine, writes Adictosalared.com .

“Si deseas encontrar a alguien en la red, Whozat es tu solución”, escribe Reportajes.com.

Whozat was down for part of Sunday, and then after we restored it, we made a mistake resetting the DNS that caused errors for users going to www.whozat.com instead of whozat.com. Things are fixed now, and should propagate to all servers within the next 3 hours. Our apologies!