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February 20, 2007
Scouta lets you bookmark and recommend videos at sites like YouTube, helping you find people with the same interests. It also lets you create groups and share what you've found with them. It has a "karma and kudos" system that notices when you recommend and share stuff. I've been using it in alpha (Disclosure: I'm some type of unoffical advisor, I think) with my family and the Berkman Center as groups. It's useful despite some rough edges. I like and trust the guys who built it. [Tags: scouta media everything_is_miscellaneous videos youtube] Posted
by D. Weinberger at February 20, 2007 09:32 AM
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Interesting--though lots of us have been social bookmarking and sharing videos at Mary Hodder's Dabble.com for about a year--it has an amazingly clean, trouble-free interface for such a complex app.
http://dabble.com/launchpad
Posted by: Betsy Devine | February 20, 2007 04:04 PM
Thanks so much for the kind words David.
As well as being an inspiration for the last few years, you've been invaluable in the process of creating Scouta. Back when we chatted about it at SuperNova 2006 you single handedly convinced us that Scouta Groups were as important as our personalized recommendations.
Now just have to work out those rough edges, but I think with the help of people like yourself, and the community that we're building, we'll have a smooth product soon enough :)
Posted by: Richard Giles | February 20, 2007 08:05 PM