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BRW June 19-25, 2008
Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications
Ranked 9 amongst 100 other Australian web applications.
"Recommendation Ventures provides systems that help businesses sell more of their product online by harnessing collaborative and behavioural data."
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TechCrunch May 1, 2008
Recommendation Ventures And IceTV Team For TV Suggestions, Duncan Riley
"Recommendation Ventures, the company behind social music and video recommendations service Scouta has signed a new deal with EPG provider IceTV to provide intuitive content recommendations to IceTV users."
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Gizmodo Australia May 1, 2008
IceTV Tries To Give TiVo The Finger With New Features, Nick Broughall
"Recommendations is a service that will intelligently recommend programs based upon your favourite TV shows, series recordings and other recording data. IceTV partnered with Perth-based startup Recommendation Ventures for the service."
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PC World May 1, 2008
IceTV can now pick your favourite show, Andrew Hendry
"The technology comes courtesy of a partnership between IceTV and Perth based Recommendation Ventures, and works across either a digital set-top-box based PVR, or Windows and Mac-based media centres."
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CNET Australia April 30, 2008
Topfield and Windows PVRs to get more TiVo features, Ty Pendlebury
"IceTV has allied with Perth-based start-up Recommendation Ventures to provide the "intelligent" recommendations. The new feature is only available on Windows Media Center and Mac/EyeTV at present, but compatibility with other PVRs which use the IceTV guide will be announced in the coming weeks."
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Smarthouse April 30, 2008
Smart TV Guide Knows Your Favourite Shows
"Added Kossatz: "Our partnership with Recommendation Ventures is very exciting as the methodology can easily be adapted in the future to suggest other forms of content to IceTV users, such as downloadable video content or DVDs sent in the post.""
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IT Wire April 30, 2008
Get recommendations on good TV with IceTV, Alex Zaharov-Reutt
"Richard Giles, CEO of Recommendation Ventures said: "This partnership is personally very exciting. I'm a huge fan of IceTV watching time-shifted television, and when we first designed the recommendation engine it was television shows that I most wanted to see being recommended. It's fantastic receiving TV recommendations that match my tastes, it's like my own personalised television guide that adapts to what I love.""
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Australian Anthill April/May, 2008
Case study: Scouting the centre of the universe
One of Scouta's [Recommendation Ventures] first alliances involving this extended service is with IceTV, an Australian service that offers free-to-air television recommendations for users along with the technology to record and organise these selections on a PC. IceTV is using Scouta's recommendation engine on its site iwatchthis.com.au. It's a symbiotic arrangement that is pioneering this space globally, and it was cooked up on the shores of the capital of Australia's western economic powerhouse.
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Australian Startups Carnival March 3-17, 2008
Winner
First place amongst 28 Australian startup companies in the T/Media/Telecom/eCommerce/Social Networking/Marketing/News/SAAS industries.
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BRW Digital Generation Flagship edition February 28 April, 2008
Caught in the web 2.0, Tony Blacke
"Dawson also rates Scouta, an Australian developed system that allows users to bookmark favourite online audio and video sites, then delivers personalised recommendations. It also provides several ways to make sharing favourite online audio and video simple.
Scouta, developed by Richard Giles, has a two pronged business model: online consumer delivery and as a site engine for others to use."
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ReadWriteWeb May 29, 2007
The Top 60 Web 2.0 Applications in Australia
Listed as number six in ReadWriteWeb's Top 60 Web 2.0 Applications in Australia.
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Australian Anthill April/May, 2007
Scouta's honour, Paul Ryan
"Tech-based personal recommendation systems have come a long way in recent times. In 2002, the Wall Street Journal published an article by Jeffrey Zaslow entitled, "Oh no! My TiVo thinks I'm gay," outlining the severe limitations of algorithmic taste-profiling. Even today, iTunes, Amazon and other popular online media stores insist on taking the "Customers who bought this also bought..." approach to media recommendation, with inevitably humble results.
Richard Giles knows all of this better than most, and now he wants a piece of the action. Giles and business partner Graeme Sutherland recently launched Scouta, an online video and podcast recommendation service that Giles describes as like having your best mates always online, offering media recommendations based on their intimate knowledge of your personal taste....."
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TechCrunch March 23, 20007
Scouta Media Recommendations: Soon in iTunes, Nick Gonzalez
"Scouta will track media that you have bookmarked, as well as media your friends have bookmarked along with any groups that you are part of and use that information to show you recommended content. From our initial tests, it seems to work well and we found interesting links pretty quickly."
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