TWiLBM #177: Rush, Dash and Santa Monica’s wellbeing Welcome to episode #177. On the show: Top stories featuring Quantum Dots, Apple, the Lego Movie, Coupons.com, American Express, Amazon's Dash Tesco, Uber's Rush, Breeze, Santa Monica's Wellbeing Project, Traffle's travel app and SmartMat. Our mobile minute featuring Chuck Martin asks "do people still go into stores" and our special guests are Brian Menell and Richard Bagdonas of Mahana.
TWiLBM #176: They should be called MLB BAM! Welcome to episode #176. On the show: Top stories featuring the great Faberge egg hunt; Voice recognition ads from Xapp + NPR; Mobiquity's BLE beacon SDK; MLB Advanced Media's At the Ballpark app; GaussBricks from the University of Taiwan; Minified's Telescope Cards + Foursquare; Coke's Radar for Good campaign in Romania; The launch of TheGoodData; Funding news from Alignable and Lyft; The launch of Hi.co. Our mobile minute featuring Chuck Martin looks at the mobile shopper gap. Our resource of the week is a whitepaper from Placeable on LBM insights. Our special guest is Rafi Haladjian, founder of Sense.
TWiLBM #175: Shyp for shipping, ships Welcome to episode #175. On the show: Top stories featuring Facebook acquiring Oculus; Iconeme's talking mannequins; Shyp shipped; PayPal partnering with Placed; Adtile's kinetic ads for smartwatches; AT&T shutting down their Alerts program; Pepsi's unbelievable bus shelter; New Physicalytics platform; Spacified's matching service for pop-up store space. Our resource of the week is InstantPeeping. Our mobile minute with Chuck Martin examines the value vs. privacy debate.
TWiLBM #174: Bringing big data down to the moment Welcome to episode #174. On the show: Top stories featuring Disney World, the Weather Channel's Weather FX ad platform, Cloak, Android Wear, the Exist app, TheLadders, PayRange, Indoo.rs, Gigwalk, What3Words and Digicash. Our Mobile Minute with Chuck Martin reinforces the impact that location has on retail. Our resource of the week is FireChat.
TWiLBM #173: Let there be water – from the air Welcome to episode #173. On the show: Top stories featuring Banjo, Mahana, Locoslab, Yelp & Yahoo!, Emotient, UTEC, Apple, HP & Aurasma, Wearable Experiments and One Llama. The Mobile Minute with Chuck Martin recaps some highlights from SXSW and our resource of the week demystifies the second screen in North America. Asif gives us a rundown of his Retail Loco and SXSW experiences.
TWiLBM #172: Haptics, CarPlay and the end of home deliveries Welcome to episode #172. On the show: Top stories featuring OfficeDepot, Revealr, Lechal, Six to Start, Thirdshelf, ShipEarly, Apple's CarPlay, PizzaHut and Chaotic Moon, and Volvo's delivery system. Our Mobile Minute with Chuck Martin examines the in-store difference between the mobile web and mobile apps. Our resource of the week is a new book by Peggy Anne Salz and InMobi called Apponomics.
TWiLBM #171: The commute doesn’t compute Welcome to episode #171. On the show: Top stories featuring Square and Bookfresh, CommuteStream, LevelUp and Foodler, Muber, SounderPoster 3.0, Amtrak, Caribou Coffee, IMGuest.com, Mastercard and Syniverse and Stylinity. Our resource of the week features an interview with Thinknear founder Eli Portnoy on the state of location data. The Mobile Minute with Chuck Martin defines the mobile consumer.
TWiLBM #170: First screen, second screen and seeing the light Welcome to episode #170. On the show: Top stories of the week include highlights from Broadcom, Philips, Future of Privacy, rock band Archie Pelago, Baidu, Weve, Facebook and WhatsApp, Innovid and Cisco, eHarmony and Foursquare and Ruckus. Our resource of the week is from Urban Airship and questions if you are ahead or behind in mobile. Chuck Martin tries to figure out what consumers do with their phones while in the store on our Mobile Minute. Asif and Rob take a deeper look at the Facebook/WhatsApp, Philips and Innovid stories.
TWiLBM #169: The mile-high (social) club Welcome to episode #169. On the show: Top stories of the week include Sears offering curbside pickup; Amazon launching Flow; Virgin America's new in-air social network; Augmented reality on the bus; Royal Caribbean solves windowless cabins; Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago's interactive billboard; Localytics brings in $17M in funding; Yahoo! partners with Yelp. The Mobile Minute with Chuck Martin examines the impact of passive data collection. Our app of the week is TouchRoom. Our Resource looks at how location-based marketing delivers ads to in-store shoppers. Our special guest is blogger and author Greg Hickman of Mobile Mixed who brings tactical advice on SMS marketing.
TWiLBM #168: MicroBingSquare Welcome to episode #168. On the show: The top 8 most relevant stories during the past week in location and contextual based marketing including stories from Microsoft, Foursquare, Shopcloud, Ryerson, NTT and Dwango, Nokia and GloveLove, PlaceIQ and Rentrak TV, ShopRite and PayNearMe. Our mobile minute with Chuck Martin examines what 77% of consumers want in return for their location data. Our app of the week is Spo.tt Messenger. Our resource confirms that location is the new currency of marketing. Our special guest is Mikhail Damiani of Blue Bite.
