Scouta

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Even though I’ve had an account for a few months, I’ve only just really started looking into Scouta, an audio and video recommendation service that was developed in Perth, and founded (in part) by Richard Giles. The basic idea is that you can watch videos/listen to music, and tag it, as well as rate it. Then based upon your voting, you get recommendations. You can also subscribe to your recommendations list via iTunes (something that I presume will work better when they release a plugin shortly!)

While I’m not exactly 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 Richard.

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  • Thanks Jordan.

    Great that you like Scouta.

    It also takes into account things you add, so not just based on voting :). Soon it'll be even more clever, and take into account descriptions and tags.

    Know any good local designers? I'm seriously in need of someone who could contract in to design, do some UI work, and icons. Flick me an email if you have ideas of people (or ideas for Scouta). Prefer someone with UI and design...but immediately need a designer for some page work and an OS X icon for the iTunes agent.
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