The average Brewster user knows 1600 people — that is a huge number. At Brewster, we want to make keeping in touch and understanding relationships fun again. From giving you one private place to access everything you know about everyone you know (updated contact info, interests, current location, etc.) to helping you see how your relationships are interconnected, there are a ton of ways to use Brewster everyday to make life simpler. Since we launched, we have heard some great stories about how people are using Brewster on a daily basis to help make life easier — here are a few:

1. Easily Accessing Updated Contact Info: I wanted to email a friend who had recently changed jobs but couldn’t find the note with the new contact info. Then I realized her email address had already been updated within Brewster without me having to try to hunt down the new information.

2. Traveling & Seeing Who Is Nearby: I was planning a trip to DC and wanted to see who I could connect with there. I searched by location to see which of my friends live there now and set up a few meetings.

3. Keeping In Touch: Work had been really busy recently so I checked Losing Touch to see which which of my friends I hadn’t contacted recently and wanted to reach out to.

4. Building A Guest List & Common Connections: I was planning a get-together with a friend and used Brewster to create a guest list and send out a quick group email. I also used Brewster to make sure we didn’t have any mutual contacts I forgot to invite.

5. Discovering Common Interests: I recently had tickets to the Knicks game and wasn’t sure who to take, so I did a quick search and found a couple of friends who were huge fans. I also needed to find a great birthday present for my cousin so I looked through his recent interests to see what he was really into right now.

6. Jogging Your Memory: I met a friend of a friend at a party last year but only remembered his first name. We had emailed a couple of times so I did a quick search of all the people I knew with that first name and easily found his contact info.

7. Networking More Effectively: I needed to get some professional advice and knew I must have a friend who could help out. I looked through Industry Contacts to see who could help and even found a couple of new people who I could contact in the future.

8. Staying On Top Of Moves & Life Events: I regularly check updates to see which of my friends got a new job, moved to a new city, etc.; it gives me a great excuse to reach out to people and never miss a big life event. Just last week, I had been meaning to reach out to an old colleague and while skimming Updates, noticed she had just moved to New York for a new job, giving me the perfect opportunity to reach out and reconnect.

9. Effortlessly Adding New Contacts: It used to be a pain to keep track of new contacts. I always had to remind myself to connect with someone on a social network or add business card info. Now, all the people I recently emailed or connected with are seamlessly added to Brewster and appear in my Updates, making it infinitely easier for me to remember if I want to add notes, schedule meetings or just send a follow-up note.

10. Enjoying Better Caller ID: I didn’t have the phone number of a college friend (and don’t pick up calls from unknown numbers) but since I synced my Brewster account to my iPhone, an awesome photo of him appeared on caller ID when he reached out.

If you have any stories about how you use Brewster in everyday life, let us know on Twitter or Facebook!

We’re excited to share a great new feature from the major update we released yesterday. Now with a single click, we provide a simple way to sync your Brewster address book to your iPhone contacts, fixing your existing address book — for good.

User benefits
How many times have you needed to email a friend quickly, only to find that they don’t autocomplete in your mail app? Or saved a colleague’s phone number online somewhere, but didn’t have time to add it to your phone’s address book? Or ignored a call from a phone number you don’t recognize, and it turns out to be your cousin? Well, the new version of Brewster is designed to solve these problems.

How it works
When you enable sync, we securely make all the email addresses and phone numbers from your Brewster address book available in your Mail, Messages, and Phone applications. After you’ve completed setup, open the Contacts app on your device, and syncing will automatically begin. Depending on your internet connection, the initial sync could take up to an hour.

Understanding what you see
Your iPhone allows you to see different groups in the Contacts app.

If you have multiple visible groups there may appear to be duplicate contacts. Don’t worry: the sync has not created duplicates, and we haven’t overwritten any contacts in your iPhone address book. We create a separate group for the contacts we add. Each of the contacts we create has every available piece of contact information, a large photo and a link to their Brewster profile, giving you an improved experience in your phone, email, and SMS apps.

You control what you see
If you decide at any point that you only want to see the contacts from your iPhone address book (with any information Brewster added), just go to Contacts > Groups, and make sure you only have your iPhone profile checkmarked. All your Brewster contacts will still be available in autocomplete when you’re composing emails, writing text messages, and making or receiving phone calls. If you decide you want to remove your Brewster profile altogether, go to Settings > General > Profiles and remove the Brewster profile.

Give it a try and let us know what you think!

We released a major update today, making it easy for you to sync your Brewster account with your iPhone address book!

By syncing with your iPhone, Brewster enhances your phone’s current address book with updated contact information and large photos for all of your contacts. Here is what the latest update delivers to our users:

Updated contact info added to your phone’s existing address book for 237 people.

See large photos on caller ID for all your contacts

Improved autocomplete with an additional 807 emails and 231 numbers.

Read more on the update from TechCrunch’s Ingrid Lunden here . We are excited to hear what you think — drop us a line on Facebook or Twitter anytime!

With the new year around the corner, we wanted to highlight 5 ways you can use Brewster to make holiday planning easier, simpler and more fun!

Traveling for the holidays? Use “Current City” to see who may be traveling to your city or search by location to see who will be in a city you are visiting

Planning a get together? Use Brewster to jog your memory, build a custom guest list and then email/text guests to coordinate — all within the app!

Need some help figuring out that perfect gift? Skim through our dynamic Profiles to see what your friends and family have recently added as “interests”

Are your gift lists scattered everywhere, including your head? Use Brewster’s Lists to create organized and easy to update gift lists, based on all the different groups you have in your life. Make one list for family, another for coworkers and so on…

Want to jump start networking in 2013? Use Brewster’s “Smart Lists” to see what industry friends you haven’t reached out to in awhile and want to grab coffee with

These are just a few ways Brewster can help you plan for the holiday season — but the possibilities are really endless. This year, let Brewster do the work for you!

You know so much about the people in your life today but sometimes it seems harder than ever to quickly find what we are looking for. Information is scattered across services – leaving you constantly searching in the wrong place for the one thing you were looking for. That’s where Brewster comes in.

Access All Contact Information
How many times have you been running late and can’t find a friend’s number? You just got a new phone and need to update your contact list, so now you’re searching emails to see if you can find it anywhere. With Brewster, we display all phone numbers and email addresses in one easy to access profile — making sure you never lose contact information again.

See All Your Photos
Like contact info, we gather all of your contact’s photos that are scattered across services into one dynamic profile — making it easy to select the photo that best represents that person and relationship to you. We also make it simple for you to take your own photo and upload it onto a profile, letting you customize your view of a contact.

See All The Ways You Know Someone
Think of all the ways you know people these days. You are friends with your co-worker on Facebook, connected to your cousin on LinkedIn and follow your neighbor on Twitter. In reality, very few people fit into one category in life. With Brewster, we gather all social profiles, mutual connections, interests (and even current city!) into one crisp profile — providing you with a view that actually reflects the different ways you know someone in real life.

There are a ton of ways you can use Brewster to find what you are looking for and learn new things about the people in your life along the way. If you have any stories about how you use Brewster in everyday life, let us know on Twitter or Facebook!

With Brewster, you can finally search the way you want. Our search technology lets you search by anything — from current city to interests to employment to so much more.

Search by city

Imagine you are traveling to New York for business, just got off the plane, and want to see who might want to grab coffee. With Brewster, it’s easy to quickly see who is near you by tapping on your current city, at the top of your search suggestions.

It’s as simple as selecting Current City (in this case, NYC) and instantly seeing which one of your friends is also in the city. Whether you are traveling or just want to get a snapshot of who is in your city, Brewster makes it simple to see who is around you.

Search by interests

While in NYC, you have tickets to a Knicks game and want to see if any of your friends want to come along. With our technology, it is as simple as typing a topic in the search field and seeing who appears. What you see is displayed by category, providing an intuitive way to navigate results.

Search by name (any part of it!)

And then there are those times when you kind of remember someone’s name but aren’t totally sure. You met a guy named Mike in NYC at a comedy club and even emailed with him, but have no idea what his last name is. With Brewster’s auto-complete,  all you have to do is begin typing and we display anyone that matches any part of that name, complete with a photo. With a few taps, you find Mike (without knowing his last name) and easily access his contact info.

Search by employment

Finding Mike reminds you that you want to check out some of the new comedy clubs in the area but don’t know where to begin. You are pretty sure you have a few friends who worked at comedy clubs but are drawing a blank. With Brewster, all you have to do is search for a topic you are wondering about and, in this case, quickly see exactly who you know who is involved with comedy clubs.

There are so many ways you can use Brewster to find who you are looking for and learn more about the people you know. Whether you are going on a trip, planning a party, or have an extra ticket to a concert, there are countless ways you can use Brewster to discover more about the people around you and make your life easier.

If you have any fun stories about how you were able to use Brewster to discover unexpected and useful info, let us know on Twitter (@brewsterapp) or the Brewster Facebook page!

Thanks to everyone who has reached out since we launched and shared amazing excitement over Brewster — we are thrilled to announce that Brewster is now available in Europe and can be downloaded here!

Read more about our European launch from TechCrunch’s Ingrid Lunden here:
Brewster: The Smart Contacts App That Wants to Rule Them All, Now Conquering Europe, Too

We have heard many incredible stories on all the different ways people use Brewster to find who they are looking for and discover more about the people around them. Feel free to reach out to us on Facebook and Twitter and share any fun stories about how Brewster has worked for you; we love hearing from our users!

Here is a full list of where Brewster is currently available:

Thanks to everyone who signed up and checked out our service in the past two days, we have been amazed with the response! We try to respond to each comment and question on Twitter/FB individually but for anyone we missed, here is an update on what is going on at Brewster. 

We take privacy extremely seriously at Brewster. When we launched yesterday, we had a tremendous number of user signups, and fixed a number of problems, including scale issues and bugs.

One unfortunate problem that arose was for Foursquare users who were fans, but not friends, of other Foursquare users. Even further, Foursquare only offers the ability to be fanned to an extremely small number of users. In this case, if we had the contact information from a full Foursquare friend, we briefly displayed their contact information to fans. This happened with one user who was fans of multiple people on Foursquare.

As soon as we heard of this issue from the user, we made sure this bug was resolved immediately, and put safeguards in place to ensure it never happens again. This is the only instance we heard of this issue.

Separately, from this bug, we have also responded to questions from users related to information that they had access to from different services. For instance, a user might have a public photo available that they haven’t seen before, or a phone number rightfully accessible if connected on Foursquare. These instances are completely consistent with the access the user gives these third-party services.

Brewster strives to be a trusted personalized address book for our users. We hope this serves as an example of how seriously we take issues of privacy, how candid we will be if issues ever arise, and that our users remain a top priority.