About Scouta
What is Scouta?
- Personalized video and podcast recommendations.
- Based on what you watch, listen to, or rate.
- Share favorites with friends and groups.
- Use our new iTunes Scouta Agent to make it effortless.
Scouta provides you with personal recommendations for video and podcasts that suit your interests and tastes. It does this based on your favorite online videos or podcasts that you bookmark in your My Scouta account. Scouta also works with iTunes, taking into account all the podcasts and vodcasts that you watch or listen to in iTunes, on your iPod, Apple TV, or iPhone, by using the Scouta Agent.
Why use Scouta?
- Save time discovering personally relevant video and podcasts.
- No need to search.
- Discover things you love but never knew existed.
- It's even easier for iTunes users with the Scouta Agent.
Have you ever wasted hours looking for a great video or podcasts? There is so many videos and podcasts online that it can take ages to sift through dozens to find something that you love. Scouta discovers video and podcasts that you love, without extra effort. Scouta automatically makes recommendations based on the favorites you bookmark, or the video and podcasts you consume in iTunes.
How to use Scouta?
- Join Scouta.
- Bookmark videos and podcasts in your My Scouta account.
- Rate videos and podcasts to teach Scouta what you love.
- Use our new iTunes Scouta Agent.
- Receive relevant recommendations, and enjoy.
The more you add or rate, the smarter Scouta gets. And with every new release, and every new member, it just gets smarter. Every time you interact with Scouta, it works like the best (online) friend. The kind that listens and connects you with others.
What works with Scouta?
- Any podcast
- Any vodcast
- iTunes podcasts and vodcasts with the iTunes Scouta Agent
- youtube.com
- vids.myspace.com
- video.google.com
- metacafe.com
- revver.com
- www.ifilm.com
- www.veoh.com
- grouper.com
- guba.com
- jumpcut.com
- soapbox.msn.com
- brightcove.com
If you'd like to know more about features, and how to make Scouta work for you, then check our help page, or check the contact page to tell us your thoughts.
Who Works For Scouta?
Richard Giles
Richard Giles has over 15 years experience in the technology industry. An Australian web pioneer in the early-nineties, he later worked for Sun Microsystems for nine years. He has since authored two books, won awards for podcasts, consulted, and spoken to a variety of organizations about the emerging Internet.
Graeme Sutherland
Graeme is an Internet systems engineer and technology strategist who has consulted on and delivered a range of successful internet and network-based products worldwide in a range of industries including financial services, logistics, industrial automation, internet micro-payments and voice services. He currently works on new web applications via his UK and Australian businesses.
Simon Wittber
Simon is an open-source enthusiast, who likes to build cool stuff with Python.
Libby Davy
Lib's been bringing people together on the net for yonks. After an early, traditional career as a strategic communications type, she moved on to start using her talents for more good, not evil. She's been an awarded online media activist, consultant, writer, photographer, social entrepreneur and co-founder of several thriving online happenings. Libby helps out on Scouta's community and communications side.
How Did Scouta Start?
In late 2005, Graeme and Richard were chatting over a beer and pizza in a great pub/restraunt called Little Creatures in Fremantle, Western Australia. It was approaching summer, and Fremantle is the type of place you head to soak up the spring or summer atmosphere. The sea breeze always invigorates the mind.
Richard had recently finished writing a book, originally called the Whole Internet Guide to Podcasting (subsequently cut down to become the Podcasting Pocket Guide) for O’Reilly, and they were lamenting the fact that it’s hard to find good quality podcasts that were really relevant to “me.”
It’s not that there isn’t a massive amount of content to choose from, or that everything is crap, it’s just so hard to filter everything for personal tastes. So, they came up with an idea to create the 21st Century “television” guide: a guide that recommends relevant online video and audio for individuals.