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Testing the concept of location-agnostic reporting, Asif comes to us from London for our Blue Plate Special episode – we are officially podcast senior citizens now. Despite our age we bring the news with Twitter partnering with Amex on sponsored local tweets, mobile apps for civil engagement, the Sony XPERIA awesomeness that was their “Defy the Darkness” campaign and Glamour’s Shoppable Wall + special guest Jeff Brenner, CEO of Pressly.

In a truly international episode we highlight the very innovating British Petroleum using Navteq to drive (literally) gas sales, Boingo and Bango make plays – one with the Westfield Group, the other with Facebook, Dwolla closes cash, groupon makes a buy and we both question the need for Klout + Scott Rankine talks up the yet-to-be released Syzzle.me. Phew, big show!

This week the conversation focuses on Telus partnering deeply with WagJag, MomentFeed intensifying their relationship with Foursquare, do we really need mall kiosks or will your phone suffice, Facebook’s IPO, Yowza and CardSpring tap someone else’s money + Foursquare’s Holger Luedorf talks up their future.

This week Asif Khan and I explore the latest SIRI competitor, Evi, the location tool LocalBeat in India, Groupon’s kiosk play and a great example of relevant and smart location based mobile marketing by the First TransPennine Express + Matt O’Leary from Shopcastr

Following The Big Show on the future of retail in New York City we focus on some timely stories from some of the companies that made a splash at the conference. From cloud analytics company NearBuy to geofencing service LocalPoint launched by Digby to Foursquare getting into the menu business and the smartest glasses we’ve ever since. Plus a clip from Urbain Airship’s CEO Scott Kveton.

This episode is packed with stories about Groupon partnering with Deutsche Telekom, location on the Kindle Fire (by HopStop and Skyhook), Shazam’ing the SuperBowl and GM opening up the OnStar API. All this plus Wiggert De Haan, Founder of Roamler.

Our first episode of the new year finds us loving up the Soundtracking application, debating the merits of a one-off event-based app (for the Chick-fil-a Bowl), taking a glimpse into the future of location and mobile commerce and talking geofencing with Maponics CEO Darrin Clement

In this episode we try to make sense of the rapid-paced location based world that was 2011 and cobble together a few thoughts on what 2012 will look like. Happy new year!

In this episode we discuss Brightkite taking a break from business, DDR moving coupons to dialtone, Layar’s enhanced yellow sticky pad and Hallmark bringing us more Billy Ray Cyrus by QR code + Zaarly’s Eric Koester.

In this episode we discuss PayPal getting into the mobile coupon market, TelNav diving into mobile browser based GPS, KLM’s social seating experiment and Lenny Rachitsky of LocalMind.

In this episode we discuss Home Depot working with Pandora, Rogers entering the daily deals business in Canada, MojoStreet and Schemer + special guest Gauri Manglik of Fondu.

TWiLBM episode 54: we discuss the long death of Gowalla, Google and Nokia getting into indoor mapping plus a little Foursquare, HelloWallet, Calvin Klein + Shazam, McDonalds + LivingSocial and Dan Gilmartin of Where.com.