Official Scoutle Blog

Great news! The first version of our Facebook/Scoutle Application has been launched! It will bring updates from and to Facebook and in the future will help you get even more information across the web.

To use the Facebook Application, login at Scoutle to find your Remote Key and Remote Secret at: /My Scoutle / My Account / Communication

The Facebook Application can be found at:
http://apps.facebook.com/scoutle/

Let your friends automatically know about your Scoutle Activities, for example when you recommend a blog, get a new Friend or join a network. Install the Facebook/Scoutle Live Updater right now!

Scoutle is online for 6 months already! A complete new version of Scoutle.com (Version 2.0) was launched silently September 18th with many (!!!) new and cool features but every day we keep on working hard to implement and process the great suggestions we get through email or the Suggestion Box. There have been so many updates the last few months, you may have missed some!

1. New intelligent widget: – Dynamic Widget

This new widget has been tested for a week now and is actually a small version of your blog profile at scoutle.com. It is updated automatically to make sure only blogs are shown that you approved. Also, visitors can visit another blog directly, going from one blog to another without passing Scoutle.com to bring visitors around even quicker. We strongly advice you to replace your current widget with this new widget that is available in two different sizes.

2. Customize your widget

We added different ways to customize your widget. You are now able to select the background color of your widget! Just login at Scoutle.com and go to My Scoutle / My Blogs and click on “Edit”.

3. Find your friends!

Want to find your existing friends inside Scoutle? Use your webmail account (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo…) to find friends that are already using Scoutle and those that are not, you can invite with a single click.

4. Scoutle is getting more social

Next to Twitter, FriendFeed and your Personal RSS Feed we now also have a Lifestream RSS Feed for you and Scoutle is supported at profilactic.com. Use these cool features to get noticed! Login, go to / My Scoutle / My Account / Communication.

5. New additional service: www.qurify.com

We are also working on other cool services that can help you and your blog get noticed on different ways. We just launched www.qurify.com to help you get your blog noticed outside the Internet. At www.qurify.com your can create your own QR Codes (which is called “to qurify”) but inside the Scoutle website, we already qurified a QR Code for you at My Scoutle / My Blogs / QR Code. Check out www.qurify.com to learn more about QR Codes.

6. Submit your RSS Feed for new extra traffic

We will upgrade to Scoutle Version 3.0 soon with even more great new features. For this it is very important that you submit the RSS Feed of your blog so login at Scoutle.com and do so right away!

7. Advice: Join or create networks

Networks are very important within Scoutle so be sure to join or create networks that are related to your blog. Also, promote these networks so you make your own connections stronger and of higher quality.

To make sure Scoutle will grow faster and faster, and drive more interested traffic to your blog, please make sure to invite all your friends and BLOG ABOUT SCOUTLE! Not only will your post be mentioned at Scoutle.com (and printed out to have a nice spot at our wall at the office) but also, this is a very effective way to get your own visitors connected to your blog and help them spread the word as well. We will continue to listen to your suggestions and add as many useful and free features that all of us can think of!

You just work on the quality of your blog… The Scouts will do the rest.

Well.. A very good but also very kind friend from Canada (known as The General) has been correcting the over 2000 words, sentences and stories. It took him a lot of time and I am truly very, very grateful. Although I had to adjust all his corrections a bit due to a stupid little mistake I made in the translation application I wrote to make this work, this is truly great and hopefully a very welcome update for all of you.

I have not finished yet and will have to check variables used in the sentences but I think tomorrow I can finish it up.

It is very cool friends are so helpful. In this stage, all the help you can get is very welcome and needed. I sometimes think “No, I can’t ask him to do that.” or “No, I will not just start talking about this even though he knows people that can be useful.” However, if I want to make this startup a succcess… I will have to drive myself to it a little more.

Thanks again General!! And you even offered to help out by yourself. Very, very cool.

When you’re in the stage of thinking, don’t stop working, studying or earning money. Nothing is changed. You’re only thinking more about your ‘idea’ but giving it all up will only give you more to worry about. It will have a negative influence on that ‘moment of truth’. Don’t think about the future afteryou have launched your startup. Continue to live the way you did.

I just continued to go to work, made websites as a freelancer. What you do need however, is support. Tell people about your dream of starting up a startup. Try to find out who thinks you’re an idiot and who believes in you. In my case, I have many dreams and people around me mostly wait for two weeks to take me seriously. I can’t blame the though. You will see most people wish you all the luck but don’t believe you will hold on longer than a month, others may just say they like it and some will ask you to keep posted. The ones that ask you how it goes and although you may hate it, those people are likely to tell you what they think. “Have you thought about this and that?” “You know, I think people would need…” You may find that annoying and say:”I have already thought about that.” or think “he, dude. I am the one starting here so don’t tell me what to start.” The people that are interested in this stage believe in you and will be likely to help you out later on.

Find support. Don’t keep a list of who is friendly and who isn’t and promise only the friendly people they can swim in your pool when you’re a millionaire. Just don’t bother people with your ideas that are jealous and may discourage you. They don’t like hearing it, and you don’t like them answering anyway.