Thanks To Skout, You Can Now Flirt Online Even When You Go Outside (Exclusive Video)
TechCrunch —
This afternoon at DEMO 09, mobile dating / location-based social network Skout will debut a product aimed to complement its web services by bringing the concept of online dating offline, straight to thousands of bars and clubs across America.
The project was dubbed Skout OUT and essentially wants to blurs the line between online dating in the virtual and the real world by installing an interactive touch screen at 10,000 social venues (clubs, bars, etc.) all over the U.S. - starting Q2 2009 - that should help singles connect with other singles around them.
This comes right off the heels of Skout’s ...
DEMO: Will singles use Skout Out’s kiosk for mobile dating?
VentureBeat —
We’ve already written about Skout, a location-based dating application that recently came to the iPhone — but today at the DEMO conference in Palm Springs, it just announced a big addition to its service. That addition is the Skout Out, a kiosk of sorts for location-based dating that features a jukebox and a 42-inch plasma screen.
It’s one of the more out-there concepts I’ve seen at DEMO, and I mean that in a good way. At first, it seems silly to add a giant device to a service whose big advantage is mobility — and that silliness is underlined by the fact that Skout Out kind of ...

