Having completed their beta phase, ScoutLabs has decided to roll in a 30 day free trial period to their offering. ScoutLabs blog posts is here, and CNet covers the story here. On their plans page, ScoutLabs lists the type of data they analyze: Blogs, open social networks, photo and video sharing sites, Twitter. It is interesting to see that they don’t include any message boards – where a lot of the gold is.
A while ago, I predicted that with the acquisition with some of the major players in the space (Cymfony, BuzzMetrics, Umbria), feature innovation would be seen from the less encumbered entrants. This is exactly what I’m seeing with ScoutLabs (see their feature list page).
Hi Matt,
Thanks for your nice note. We are indeed unencumbered and having fun going fast! We have many ex "the-big-companies" on our engineering team, so if I ever grumble about a 3-week turn around from idea to live-in-the-app, my colleagues are quick to remind me, "Jen, do you know how long this would've taken at Yahoo?!"
Matt, you and your readers might enjoy Margaret's recent blog post about real-time sentiment detection - how we do it at Scout Labs and how accurate it is. http://www.scoutlabs.com/2009/02/26/how-does-sentiment-work-and-how-accurate-is-it-anyway/
Let me know if you'd like a walk-through and/or demo account.
Best,
Jennifer Z
CEO
Scout Labs
Posted by: Jennifer | March 02, 2009 at 05:07 PM