Skout: Mobile Location-Based Social Dating
in this blog, I usually talk about mapping and new technologies at large. I am very fond of location-aware applications, so I talk a lot about that too. All that talk has one converging point: It’s all on a map, and I can’t stress enough on the necessity for organizations and businesses to put themselves on the map too.
Yesterday night, I attended the SFnewtech Meetup, popular event for techies here in the Silicon Valley. I enjoyed most of the startups that went on stage. There was one presentation I thought I had to capture and share with the readers of this blog: Skout. Skout is a mobile location-based social dating service. That’s a lot of words, but it’s pretty self-explanatory: When you are in a bar, instead of daring a move with a person you find attractive, check if that person is on Skout.
When you open the Skout application on your mobile (any mobile), it will spot the members of the Skout’s network in your surroundings, which you can browse to find that person you like . “Yea, right, as if everybody was on Skout!” Well the team has a nice idea to make this happen: They worked out partnerships with popular nightlife places to display flat screens that will show members of the Skout network here in the event, a nice way to push everyone to create their profile on Skout.
So this is not directly about map creation, but I wanted to share this video because it shows the potential of location-aware technologies, and the fact that it is happening today. Skout won the DEMO 09 Demogod award.
Tags: dating, location, mobile, sfnewtech, skout, social
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