Just got off the phone with Redg at Skout. Skout is presenting at Demo this afternoon, around 2:30pm PST. Demo is a launchpad for emerging technology, similar to TechCrunch 50.

Skout is bringing location-based dating to 10,000 social venues across the US. A special version of Skout will be running on 42″ touch-screens which people can use to send hard virtual goods in the form of music downloads, as well as the usual flirting and communicating.

Skout Out aggregates people nearby’s profiles and content. You can dedicate songs to people.

System also creates account on Skout, nice for adding new users easily.

Partnerships with online dating sites will be announced shortly.

Here’s the video. I shrunk it down to fit here, click video to make full screen.

Holy cow that is cool. Anyone remember back in the day when diners had phones in the booths and you could call other people in the same location? This is like that, on steroids.

The Skout iphone app launched recently and the system powered the in-conference messaging system at iDate in January.

This Tech Crunch post, Thanks To Skout, You Can Now Flirt Online Even When You Go Outside, explains Skout Out in more detail.

P.S. If you like Omnidate, check out Hangout’s demo video., which I found browsing TC50 for dating-related companies.

Don’t miss Skout at  Demo at 2:30PM PST.

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Facebook chat is rolled out to just about everyone today. When chat is tied into Facebook dating applications things are going to get interesting. Reminds me of Userplane’s desktop presence if you have Facebook notifications turned on.

Conversation is getting broken down into increasingly smaller chunks. What is our attention threshold for paying attention to people and how does that fit into communicating with other singles on the Internet?

At some point, Twitter may pass webchat as the most useful way to keep in touch via short messages with people across multiple dating sites. Will chat applications embrace Twitter and inter-operate?

The days of belonging to and communicating with people on one dating site are coming to an end. The web is getting too fragmented and dating sites need to start working together or risk losing members to more open platforms, which I’ll be talking about more in the future.

Posting about Twitterdating tomorrow.

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Holly Campbell, host of “What a Woman Can Do” is hosting a one-hour teleseminar focusing on the concept of “Law & Attraction,” which became a buzz word after the movie “The Secret,” recently featured on Oprah. Laura Lopez, known for her dynamic audio programs on principals of “Law and Attraction,” will join Holly.

Date: July 10th & 11th
Time: 7:00 to 8:00 Central Time
Location: Teleseminar Conference Call (call-in instructions given with payment)
Fee: $20.00
Hosted: Holly Campbell & Laura Roman Lopez
Register by emailing Holly Campbell at: holly@whatawomancando.com

Dating sites would do well to promote this kind of service on their site, blogs, etc. Perhaps a revenue sharing deal and banner ads on the site.

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A reader writes in:

I read your post this morning about the Think/Together Deal and have several questions that maybe you can answer or post about.

• Where does this currently leave Vinticom? Are they still owned by Think?
• Is Vinticom still trying to sell themselves? What’s Vinticom’s status?
• Any information about Vinticom’s financials would be interesting.
• What’s the status of Together/Right One? Where they bought by the ‘Chicago Group’? If yes, what was the purchase price and details on the acquisition including but not limited to multiples, etc.
• Is this ‘Chicago Group’ looking to purchase another dating company now that the deal with Think did not go through?
• It would make sense for the Chicago Group to just purchase Vinticom and not involve itself with the Adult sites. Why would they bother with purchasing the Adult sites? Why is Think not willing to separate these 2 transactions.
• How does Together plan to merge the online/offline dating world now that their deal with Vinticom did not happen?

Besides spelling Vintacom incorrectly, these are good questions. If Terry or Paul could chime in publicly that would be great.

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In the last two weeks I have had two people mention to me that Think Partnership is having difficulties with it’s relationship properties.

The recent The Right One deal appears to have fallen through, and Relationship Exchange is a shell of its former self, with the sale to a mining concern on permanent hold.

Here we have news that Think is teaming up with BET Interactive on a new dating site with matchmaking capabilities.

Earlier this year I asked What Happened to Vintacom?

Previously, I noted that nothing says “we care deeply about creating long-lasting relationships� than being bought by a mining company involved in coal bed methane in the South Central Colorado region.

I think it’s a good idea for Think to unload it’s relationship properties and focus on it’s marketing companies.

While trolling around eBay I found The Right One is auctioning off memberships. Is that even legal?

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Julie Ferman, a Member of the Board of Directors of The International Association of Dating Websites, is co-producing the Professional Matchmakers & Introduction Services Worldwide Conference, September 28-30, 2007, at Sheraton Suites on the Hudson, in the New York City area.

The Conference brings together a network of professinals and experts, business owners, marketing agencies, and service providers. More details available at www.matchmakersconference.com.

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Minneapolis matchmaker Kailen Rosenberg has launched her own relationship site, the Elite Love Registry. Known for 15 years as one of the nation’s top relationship experts, Kailen is attempting to create a safe on line dating experience for healthy love relationships.

The serice is a cross between an dating site and a country club. All members are hand-picked, which means this site is all about quality, not quantity. The only way to become a member of The Elite Love Registry is through a three-step personal interviewing process with a Love Architect (ugh!).

The service has a high-touch feel to it, which is certainly lacking from most traditional dating sites. It will be interesting to see what kind of people show up on the site, most are selected via radio, television and newspapers personalities around the nation. Now thats a unique way to select suitable singles, and cheap too. “Give us a list of all your hot, rich, eligible friends” will certainly fill up quotas in certain area codes.

If you prefer country clubs to dive bars, Elite Love Registry may be right for you.

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E-Dating Experts founder Stephany Crowley publishes e-books to help you find and attract your perfect match in less time than you ever imagined.

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Double Your Dating secrets To attracting and meeting women online e-book and email newsletters.

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