We’ve been kind of quiet lately because we’ve been working on some big new features. I can’t give you all access to them just yet, though you may have seen some calls for testers go out on Twitter. Testing new Scout Labs features is a great way to see what’s coming soon — tests usually take only about 15 minutes (and could get you a free t-shirt!) In the meantime, here are some enhancements to the application, released today.
Easier bookmarking. It is now very easy to bookmark anything you see in the application on your initial viewing of it — just click the “Bookmark” link. You don’t have to click through to the detail page. This makes creating lists of interesting links for reports and such SUPER easy.- Links to Google Blog Search and Twitter. Now you can see results for Scout Labs searches on Google Bog Search or Twitter with a single click. This is really handy because you can just set up a persistent search in Scout Labs and not have to try and replicate the same query on Google or Twitter to check across sources. If you find an interesting mention on Google that you’d like us to have in the Scout Labs application, to score sentiment on etc, then feel free to add it using the “Suggest a Source” link at the bottom of every page in the application.
- Pagination for media sources like Flickr and YouTube. Now you can page through all the results from photo and video sources like Flickr and YouTube, and have the same collaboration features active on all of them — bookmark them, email them, discuss them, and so forth.
- Turn off billing notices for admins on an account. If you are an admin but don’t want to receive billing notices for your account, just go to your profile and “Edit” to get to the profile setting that turns them off.
- Added permalinks to all email alerts. Now it is easy to get right to the content we’ve emailed you about from your email alert.
Keep the feedback coming — we always want to know what data/features are most important to you!
