So how many times have you thought to yourself: “dang…what was the name of that hotel in San Francisco someone recommended to me for Social Media Week last year? I can’t remember who it was, or how they sent me the hotel details….

And then you waste half an hour scrolling through hundreds of messages in your different emails accounts, trying to go back to last year tweets (but hey, they’re gone!), browsing your LinkedIn and Facebook accounts…. just to find a damn message or trace from that guy…

… if you haven’t already deleted his message!

This is where Silentale’s Search functionality can really save you time and aggravation: it allows you to search ALL your conversations at once!

Simply enter a name or keywords (for instance, “Hotel San Francisco”) in the “Search everything” bar on the upper right-hand corner of the screen, or in the box on the Search tab, and you’ll get a list of all the messages and contacts with those terms.

Another way to make your searches even faster is to add the Silentale Search plugin to your browser (works with Firefox 2+ and Internet Explorer 7+).  Then you can find what you need straight from your search bar, without even having to go to your Silentale account.

Just one click lets you change from your normal search engine to doing a search of all your messages and contacts. Happy hunting!

To celebrate 4 months since launching our private beta and the beginning of an exciting new year, we’re giving every Silentale user 5 invites to share with their friends. Consider it a big “thank you” for trying out Silentale, and giving us an incredible amount of useful feedback and ideas on how we can improve.

To invite a friend, simply go to http://my.silentale.com/invites or click on the “Invite a friend” link in the upper right corner of your Silentale account.

Your account will keep track of who you’ve sent invitations to, and how many invites you have left that you can send. So go ahead and invite your friends, and remember that the quickest way to get more invites is to use the ones you’ve got. If you’re the lucky recipient of an invitation, you’ll receive an email with a link to claim it.

So thanks again for everything, and we hope Silentale will continue to help you, and your friends, to easily and quickly find what you need from all your messages and contacts! We wish you nothing but success for 2010.

It’s been 4 months since our beta launch (whoohoo!), and we’re hoping that some of our users out there who have been testing the service for us, and already sending us great feedback, will help us out again by answering just 9 questions on a quick 5 minute survey.

We know that a lot of you really like Silentale, and we have some ideas of what features are most popular, but we’re really trying to narrow down what is most important to you, or “where is the LOVE”? Sean Ellis describes this in his interview with VentureHacks as identifying what users are the most passionate about and how they actually use the service. What part of Silentale can’t you live without? This will help us to refine our positioning, messaging, marketing and most importantly, focus and prioritization for product development.

While you take the survey, you can get in the mood by listening to the old school original version of “Where is the Love?” by Roberta Flack and Don Hathaway, or the more up-to-date song of the same title by The Black Eyed Peas!

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!