Is YouNoodle using its noodle?

YouNoodle just released its list of the "healthiest startups" for the whole world to see -- otherwise known as YouNoodle Scores. Itself a startup, YouNoodle created the scoring system that rates startups on their "impact and importance", based in part on the number of news stories, blog posts and comments about a company that are posted on the Web at any given time. The score is on a scale of 0 to 100 with 100 being the highest and is continually updated and driven by data garnered from partners including CrunchBase and AngelSoft -- along with data from YouNoodle's own community.

You may remember YouNoodle from last year when it launched its Startup Predictor. The predictor uses an algorithm that crunches startup data to determine the potential success or failure of a company.

Back to YouNoodle Scores, Tech Crunch's John Cook recently took it for a test drive and found Seattle companies apparently aren't much to take notice of. Here's a sampling of how some other "top" startups are faring:

   * Facebook: 98
   * LinkedIn: 96
   * Hulu: 96
   * Etsy: 92
   * Twitter: 91
   * Yelp: 88
   * OpenDNS: 87
   * Mahalo: 83
   * Kayak: 80
   * Blip.tv: 79


Interesting concept but not sure how the numbers really stack up. Is YouNoodle using its noodle?



-posted by Andrew