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Mathieu replied on July 09, 2009 22:53 to the question "Manually Asjusting Sentiment" in Scout Labs:

Yes, we have comments from Bookmarking sites like digg, Reddit, Hacker News,... Here is the list of what we are indexing so far: http://scoutlabs.com/faq/

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Mathieu replied on July 09, 2009 22:40 to the question "Manually Asjusting Sentiment" in Scout Labs:

Hello Jim,

Sentiment is only computed on Blog results, so you can override sentiment only for blog posts. We'll add sentiment processing for other text-based contents, like Twitter, a little bit later this year. Regarding Photos and Videos, there's no way for us to do it automatically, but we could still leave the widget, so you could do manual sentiment scoring, if you wish. Would that be interesting for you?

Regarding Bookmarking sites, I'm not sure I understand, but everything that is not Blog comment, Photo, Video or Tweet is categorized in the "Blogs" tab (that will change).

I hope I answered your questions. Feel free to contact us if you need anything, and that's a lot for your feedback!

A comment on the idea "Sentiment should base on percentage rather than exact number" in Scout Labs:

I will have to check with our engineers on this, and get back to you later. In any case, from development, testing, and release it will take about a month from the day we start working on it.
Thanks! – Mathieu, on June 29, 2009 16:53

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Mathieu replied on June 29, 2009 16:47 to the idea "Mention trend chart improvement" in Scout Labs:

Hello Jessie,

A lot of our users are asking that feature, and it's pretty much on the top of our priorities for later this year. It will come, for sure!
In the mean time, you can filter Blogs results in the "Blogs" tab, sort by date and filter on "Start on" and choose the date you want to see posts for. It's not as easy as clicking on the graph, but it's a good way to do it now.

Thanks a lot,

Best regards,

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Mathieu replied on June 29, 2009 16:45 to the idea "Sentiment should base on percentage rather than exact number" in Scout Labs:

Hello Jessie,

This is a nice improvement yes, thank you for your feedback. Would you want to see the sentiment as a percentage on a graph, with the ability to trend it over time (just like right now with numbers), or you would just want numbers?

Thanks a lot,

Best regards,

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Mathieu replied on June 12, 2009 20:47 to the question "Does your system crawl Facebook status and the few things that can be crawled on Facebook?" in Scout Labs:

Hello Cameron,

No, you cannot find Facebook data in Scout Labs. Right now, Scout Labs indexes:

• posts from roughly the top 12 million English language blogs, with a portion of blog comments, news, message boards, social networking sites and classifieds mixed in


• comments from about 150,000 sources (soon to increase to millions) including comment systems like Disqus and Intense Debate, answers sites like Mahalo Answers and Yedda, comments from social news sites like Digg, Hacker News and Reddit


• photos from 5 web services including Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug, and Zoomr


• videos from 10 web services, including YouTube, Vimeo, Veoh, Revver, Metacafe, Heavy, Gamespot, Flickr, and Dailymotion


• Twitter

We are looking into Facebook data of course, but the fact that most of it is private, requires a Facebook account to be readable, or does not have RSS feed does not help us. But it's definitely on top of our Roadmap with Board/Forums data.

We'll let you know when we have more progress on this front on our blog.

Thanks for your feedback!

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Mathieu replied on June 09, 2009 22:16 to the idea "Local search" in Scout Labs:

Hi Richard,

You would want to be able to sort/refine results by Location, right? Specifically by city. It's a very hard thing to do, to determine from where a piece of content (blog post, comment,...) has been published. We are thinking to do that with services where it's much easier to do, like for Flickr photos, Tweets... but for blog posts it's much harder. There's things like Geo RSS or IP Detection but it's either not accurate and not used a lot in blog posts.

We're definitely watching this space and once we'll find a good enough mean to do it, we'll definitely implement it in the application.

If you have any other detail or how you would want that feature to work, we're listening.

Thanks a lot for your feedback,

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Mathieu replied on May 29, 2009 21:32 to the question "Observations and questions" in Scout Labs:

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the feedback. Here are my answers.

- Photos "Interestingness" how is this calculated?

Flickr is computing that order themselves. As explained on their website it's Where the clickthroughs are coming from; who comments on it and when; who marks it as a favorite; its tags and many more things which are constantly changing. We do not control that number, and it's only available on FLickr, so far. Other services might have other options of filtering.

- Photos - can I sort by "publisher"

No, you cannot. Sorting options are pretty limited for Photos and Videos, because we are still dependent on the different services APIs. We can just have what they provide us, so far (it will change over time).

- Photos/Videos/Comments - can I delete like you can for Blog postings

No, you cannot yet. You will very soon be able to delete results in Twitter, but not yet for Comments, Photos and Videos. That will probably come later this year (that's on our roadmap!).

- View count (Sort by) I don't see a view count. Is that not included? Would be nice

I assume you are seeing that sorting option in Youtube, You can access the View Count from each video detail page, in the "Information" section on the top-right of each detail page. I don't think we are able to display that on the first page yet, but I'm going to check with one of our engineer.

- Facebook - can you not include facebook content in the results

No, because most of the Facebook content is private, and we cannot access it, via Feeds or via the API. We are working hard to include Facebook (and other social networks) content into the application, and that will come later this year again.

- Spell check would be nice

You mean, spell check into the search form? Like the Google Did you mean? feature? We are planning to include plurals detection, and spell check would come after that. Would you find this feature very useful?

Thanks again for the feedback Chris, it's very helpful to us!

Best,

Mathieu

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Mathieu replied on May 29, 2009 15:58 to the question "Twitter" in Scout Labs:

Hi Jackie,

Sure we can help you with that search. Can you send us an email with the Search name you're having trouble with, and what information you're missing into the Twitter results? That would help us refine your search.
Please send the email to support <at> scoutlabs <dot> com and I'll get back to you right away!

Thank you!

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Mathieu replied on May 22, 2009 22:09 to the question "time frames on search results" in Scout Labs:

Hey Nick,

You are able to control the timeframe of the results only for blogs right now, not for photos, video and Twitter that all have different controls, based on what control each service gives us. That's why that on Youtube videos for example, you have different filter than on the Flickr photos, etc.

We'll have better control on the Twitter data (pretty much just like in the Blogs category right now) in a couple of weeks, so stay tuned.

Thanks for the feedback!

Mathieu replied on May 22, 2009 22:09 to the question "what are the parameters for quantity of twitter results?" in Scout Labs:

Hey Nick,

You are able to control the timeframe of the results only for blogs right now, not for photos, video and Twitter that all have different controls, based on what control each service gives us. That's why that on Youtube videos for example, you have different filter than on the Flickr photos, etc.

We'll have better control on the Twitter data (pretty much just like in the Blogs category right now) in a couple of weeks, so stay tuned.

Thanks for the feedback!

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