In our continuing coverage of the DEMO conference, we’re including today’s demonstrations scheduled for the conference.

These are the demonstrators for today with links to other takes around the blogosphere and beyond, as well as what Rex, John and I thought based on our viewings of the demonstrations. Click through for the full list.

Promptu Systems Corp. ShoutOUT is the first voice-to-text SMS application for iPhone. Built on Promptu Systems Corporation’s powerful  speech recognition technology, ShoutOUT lets users dictate messages in natural language, quickly check their text message and send the SMS to their intended recipients. Promptu creates multimodal talk-and-type mobile phone applications for consumers, carriers, handset providers and travel and transportation companies. ShoutOUT will
soon be available in Europe through a major wireless carrier.

VentureBeat: DEMO: Promptu launches ShoutOUT iPhone voice-driven messaging …
InformationWeek: DEMO 09 Sees Focus On Mobile
TMCNet: Promptu Unveils ShoutOUT Enabling Voice-to-SMS on iPhone
CNet: ShoutOUT that SMS with a new iPhone app
PC Magazine: DEMO 09: Hooking Up While on the Go 

Our take: Even though STT technology has supposedly progressed a great deal in the last several years, a practical solution that works impeccably is out of reach. Computing technology has simply not (affordably) caught up with the requirements for such a technology.  A working demonstration may be possible, but a live production system will not perform as advertised.  Not for a number of years. Wait for the user testing to come out in the blogs and tech journos before betting on this product.

Skout, Inc. Skout Out is a dating tool that helps singles find and flirt with others in their immediate vicinity. Leveraging LBS and 42” touch-screen plasma displays, people looking for love only need their fingers to flirt, send virtual gifts and even music to the people that dazzle them. Skout Out currently interacts with hundreds of thousands of Skout users via their iPhones, cell phones and laptops to find love on Skout’s mobile dating service.

VentureBeat: DEMO: Will singles use Skout Out’s kiosk for mobile dating?
UberGizmo: Skout Out: Real Time Dating Across Screens in Bars and Club
BigMouthMediaNews: Mobile dating site Skouts for romance offline
PC Magazine: DEMO 09: Hooking Up While on the Go
ComputerWorld: DEMO 09: Getting weird with mobile
207 other news articles »

Our take: This was a late demo yesterday, and by far my favorite from a presentation standpoint.  As a product, I don’t see how it could miss.  This could be a sleeper social network that winds up silently advancing up the ranks the way Tagged.com has done, only because of the real world element.

Purewire, Inc. Purewire Trust is the first service to dynamically establish trust and safety online. It builds user reputations that protect individuals in user-to-user relationships for commerce (i.e., classified sites), collaboration (i.e., virtual worlds) and communication (i.e., social networks). It collects information, monitors patterns and builds reputation information for online identities. Purewire Trust’s global infrastructure and classification algorithms detect suspicious
people, empowering users to base online decisions on actual activity.

CNet: Purewire shows off Web reputation system
VentureBeat: DEMO: Security firm launches Purewire Trust to vet web sites …

Our take: Reputation management isn’t a sexy business.  It is, however, a business without a clear industry leader. This take on the activity of reputation management is as good as any other we’ve seen.

< p> Ensembli, Ltd. What’s relevant to you is deeply personal to you. Search engines, feed readers and aggregators can’t sense who you are and what interests you, and they certainly don’t anticipate what’ll excite you. Instead they overwhelm you. Ensembli gets smarter about you the more you use it. It is effortless to use, continually acting on your behalf to surface your must-see stories whenever you have a few spare minutes and helping you save time and stay informed.

CNet: Ensembli demos simple, useful RSS aggregator
VentureBeat: DEMO: Ensembli recommends stories to you with personalized touch
UberGizmo: Ensembli: the Intelligent News Aggregator
CNet: At Demo, it’s all about content discovery
WashingtonPost: DEMO Memetracker Faceoff: Evri Vs. Ensembli

Our take: We’ve seen a number of RSS discovery engines that do it as well as Ensembli. RSS discovery is so commonplace now, it’s less of a service and more of a feature. We’re inclined to agree with the WaPo judgment, which wasn’t favorable. We’d suggest Pressflip or Filtrbox.

Primal Fusion, Inc. The ideas you need for work and research are presently scattered across many sources on the Web. Primal Fusion connects these ideas together, making it easy to collect your thoughts without getting mired in a glut of information. Your ideas are captured in personal thought networks, which grow into powerful assets for building, organizing and expressing your knowledge. As machine readable data, thought networks can be transformed into documents, Web sites, RSS feeds and other forms.

VentureBeat: DEMO: Primal Fusion connects your thoughts together
Waterloo Record: Primal Fusion wants to bend the internet to match thoughts
UberGizmo: Primal Fusion: Thought Networking
PC Magazine: Demo 09 Promises Productivity Apps, Gadgets, and More