Comments on: Scouta Media Recommendations: Soon in iTunes

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» Scouta jordanbrock.com — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:29:42 +0000

[...] a fan of the design, I think the service is pretty cool, and it’s great to see them getting some recognition from the big news sites. It’s also great to see that it’s privately funded. Congrats to [...]

By: scouta blog » Blog Archive » TechCrunching Scouta

scouta blog » Blog Archive » TechCrunching Scouta — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:01:52 +0000

[...] One milestone of many Internet startups is an article on TechCrunch. [...]

By: RazorSharp iPods & Raw Gadgets » Blog Archive » Buzka: Social Bookmarking With a Business Function

Mon, 21 May 2007 06:57:57 +0000

[...] in social bookmarking. And yet isolation can promote creative thinking. Innovative Web 2.0 startups Scouta, Perthnorg and Minti all hail from the State and now Buzka can be added to that [...]

By: SuTree: User Aggregated Instructional Videos

SuTree: User Aggregated Instructional Videos — Fri, 04 May 2007 04:16:02 +0000

[...] service is similar to Scouta, in that instead of being primarily machine aggregated content, users on both services are [...]

By: Rachel Cook

Rachel Cook — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:06:31 +0000

Hey Rich, right on for Scouta and PERTH. Minti’s operations are Perth based…Clay and I have just crossed the great divide and have our feet planted near Palo Alto….so it was a bast to read here on TC, Scouta profiled from my home town, thousands and thousands of miles away…

Go Scouta and go Perth Start ups…

PS. Nik, Minti can do RSS on just about anything too (sorry I couldn’t contain my Perth rivalry monster – lol)

I just watched the funniest “wii” clip on Scouta…!!!

By: Richard Giles

Richard Giles — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:24:18 +0000

Nick. Thanks very much for the great article. Also, thanks everyone for the kind words (rand, Bronwen, Molly, scientaestubique, Vikram).

Our aim is to continually improve Scouta, based on what the members want. Our focus is very much on providing the best recommendations for every individual, so we’d love for people to have a play and let us know what you think, and if you have ideas on what will make it more useful.

Thanks again.
Rich

By: Vikram

Vikram — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:14:17 +0000

I have tried the beta edition and it was jst awesome

By: scientaestubique

scientaestubique — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:45:15 +0000

If you hate the crap that makes it to the top YouTube lists, you’ll love Scouta. It’s not random like StumbleUpon, it learns from what you like and dislike. I don’t want to watch crap video and now I no longer get offered list after list of crap as I don’t search for video any more, I get good stuff delivered. Scouta rocks.

By: JasonM

JasonM — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:41:42 +0000

Next step is to be endorsed or swallowed by Apple – without either their market penetration will stay within the “tech” community.

By: Bronwen

Bronwen — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:01:37 +0000

I’ve been using since Scouta pre-launch and I still use it all the time.
Besides from all the stuff that Nick pointed out – great recommendations and being able to bookmark most video and audio in one place – the other thing that’s useful is the ability to set up private groups to share video.
So you could set up a family group to share all your videos in one spot. And you can “start conversations” about the videos, which is bound to develop into something better than the waffle on YouTube, when you groups of like-minded people coming together.
Also, with regards to the quality of recommendations – I’ve found really good podcasts and video there, that I’ve yet to find through StumbleUpon.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:15:20 +0000

These sort of sites seem to be a dime a dozen.

By: RqTect

RqTect — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:11:51 +0000

Mike is your vistor rate going down? Well now only a million visitors a month. I just noticed.

I hope to get my blog about debt up this weekend.
http://DEBTISDUMB.com

Have a great weekend.

By: Mephisto

Mephisto — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:39:07 +0000

Even more curiously, how does it stack up against Critical Metrics?

By: webtech

webtech — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:37:43 +0000

So can anyone please compare scouta with stumbleupon video and list out the difference?

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:20:45 +0000

how does this stack up against pandora.com? sounds similar…

By: Kewtr

Kewtr — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:16:16 +0000

Yeah I wonder if one of these times there will be a truly uncannily good recommendation system.

There was a really cool one for video a few years back but it was apparently just for experiment. It was amazing.

By: David Moss

David Moss — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:00:56 +0000

Nick,

How does scouta compare with video.StumbleUpon.com? And what filters are used for quality? Most viewed quality.

By: rand leeb-du toit

rand leeb-du toit — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:29:37 +0000

great to see scouta getting techcrunched – i’ve played on the beta and its a great service.