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How many times have you helped your friend move or do a favour and hear this: “I’ll buy you a beer” but never collect? Well, thanks to Travis Todd, your mobile phone and the innovative idea behind his company Buddy Beers, collecting will no longer be an issue! Berlin-based Buddy Beers allows you to send [...]

The promise of location based marketing is that it will drive foot traffic to retail locations. The question we’ve all been struggling with is how can we use mobile to drive that traffic without giving away your shirt. Enter Eli Portnoy and his company, ThinkNear. I asked Eli to come on to UNTETHER.tv to walk [...]

How does a company differentiate itself in a very crowded discount and coupon market dominated by companies like Groupon, LivingSocial and Facebook? That’s why I asked Mike Davis, the co-founder of Ringleadr.com on to UNTETHER.tv. Ringleadr is a reverse Groupon where consumers decide what discount to what company they would like and propose it to [...]

What is the state of the mobile advertising world today? That’s what I set out to answer when I invited Anne Frisbie, VP and Managing Director for InMobi, the world’s largest independent mobile advertising network on for an episode. Anne’s insights in this industry are incredible and this is a rolling, high-octane 40 minutes where [...]

What kind of idea does it take to win TechCrunch Disrupt? It would have to be disruptive in a space that people get and also one that adds value. Well, Getaround did win TechCrunch Disrupt in the spring of 2011 in New York, have been labelled the Air BnB of the automotive industry and are [...]

Can a mobile application stimulate job development? And if so, what kinds of jobs would companies be willing to offer to a mobile workforce and what would that mobile workforce be willing to do on spec. This is where the conversation started with Ariel Seidman, co-founder of Gigwalk. Gigwalk is a mobile application that marries [...]

The next new thing these days are recommendation engines – tools that help you make decisions about places to visit, restaurants to eat at, shows to see or movies to watch. This is where SpotOn lives and works – at the intersection of your social sphere and location history – and they are aiming to [...]

How do you take a hunch for an idea and make it into a business? That’s what Boris Bogatin did with LoKast, detailed in another UNTETHER.tv session from last fall (found here). But what has happened since is the focus of this follow-up episode. We spend this session talking about the evolution of the “proximity [...]

Is the biggest misconception that search is a mature industry that has already been won by the big guys at Google and Bing? Have developers and innovators handed over the keys to these companies before even trying anything new? I suppose if you think of the way we currently use the Internet and mobile to [...]

Massively multi-player online games were once a stationary, sedentary act. Players would sit at a computer and interact with each other over the bitsphere and activity was limited to the big screen. Not anymore. I asked Darren Pye, CEO of Going AFK (an Ottawa, Canada company), to come on to UNTETHER.tv to talk about the [...]

Mobile photo sharing applications have emerged and has now become a very competitive and highly contested space. So what does it take to rise above the competition when, seemingly, there is a new entrant every week? I originally invited Vic Singh, founder of Tracks – a social photo application, on to UNTETHER.tv to discuss his [...]

Social networking apps are now an industry within the mobile world and it seems that there is a new entrant popping up every month pushing the boundaries of human to human interaction via smartphones. So I went hunting for an original – one of the first of these companies to market and found myRete, makers [...]