Employees of Web Ascender in East Lansing are forever tinkering with new technologies, both on and off the job. In October, two of these employees sold one of their ideas to Whitepages.com.
Jeff McWherter and Michael Pardo sold a feature to Whitepages.com for the Google Phone, allowing the phone user to get the caller’s name, phone number and address when they call. This allows users to identify callers that arenot in their contact list.
During the first two weeks of the application’s release, it was downloaded more than 100,000 times and was featured on Web sites such as Gizmodo and Lifehacker.
The application even allows the user to add the person to their contact list and pull up a map of where the call originated.
“It is always amazing to see something that starts as just a simple office conversation, and watch it turn into a viable product,” says Web Ascender's president Ryan Doom.
Source: Ryan Doom, Web Ascender
Ivy Hughes, development news editor, can be reached here.
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