Category: Business

  • Mobile barcode check-in from BMI

    If you’re a frequent traveller on certain Air France–KLM routes in continental Europe, you’ll no doubt have become accustomed to the convenience of getting your boarding pass as an MMS message to your mobile phone. I wrote about this in…

  • It’s all about the apps, Part 3

    I wrote last month that iPhone is all about the apps. It’s not really about the device itself, cool though it is – it’s much more about what you can do with it. I discovered a new one yesterday –…

  • Bid for two creative catalysts in London

    I love seeing different thinking about business relationships and some action resulting from that different thinking. Here’s a terrific example: AdHocnium founder (and my colleague in our venture) Chris Heuer will be in London next week, fresh from his participation…

  • Chat Catcher needs a white knight

    I was dismayed by news in an email the other day from Shannon Whitley that he could no longer continue supporting Chat Catcher. This is one of the most useful tools on the web that links disparate conversation on Twitter…

  • The influence of the global FIR community

    In 2006, when we first surveyed the listeners of the For Immediate Release podcast that Shel and Neville started in January 2005, we learned a lot from what they told us. Three years later, we’ve had a new learning experience…