Scouta Video Clips and Album Art

We released another version of Scouta today, nicknamed Hicks. This release makes a huge difference to the look of the site: video clips and album art.

When a member adds a favorite to Scouta, the site automatically tries to grab a little snap shot for the bookmark. This is either the album art from a podcast, or a video clip from items like those in YouTube. Not every favorite ends up with an image, but Scouta does its best to try and find it.

We think the images make it easier to spot an interesting bookmark.

Besides the work Graeme and Simon have done on the album art, it’s been a busy few weeks with Graeme busy working on collecting extra metadata for the site. Also, as Graeme mentioned yesterday, we also had a hiccup with one of our servers that meant Scouta was off-line for a short time. So all up it’s been an interesting release.

By the way, thanks for suggesting the name Scientaestubique - it puts a new spin on the phrase “Hicks has been released.”