The idea is to let users complete mobile surveys to redeem rewards while they are being idle in a queue or driving in a cab, for example.
Driving in a cab, fiddling with the radio you may catch the first bars of Cheap Wine or Bow River and find yourself transported back several decades to that night you were at your friend's place, parents away, swaying to the music in a tight circle.
It's possible to read more or less anything into music that relies on repetition and this programme doesn't resist, underpinning Glass's accounts of the drudgery and danger involved in driving a cab back in the days when the city was going broke with his tense, gridded music, which keeps coming as remorselessly as the traffic up Fifth Avenue.
It will "recall his experiences working at Bethlehem Steel, travelling in India, driving a cab in 1970s New York [and] his professional collaborations with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Ravi Shankar, Robert Wilson, Doris Lessing and Martin Scorsese".
At 25 he immigrated to Israel, then wandered through Europe and ended up in Manhattan, driving a cab, in 1976.
I remember, back in like '95 driving for a cab company, and the one time I used my own car to drop a customer at Newark, it was almost impounded, because you can't have everyone picking up anyone from wherever they want.
Over 15 years, he played in two stages, the first while driving a cab in the early 1980s, the second while drawing pointillist portraits for The Wall Street Journal in the '90s.
In my view driving a cab will empower these girls in a way that no other vocation such as basket weaving, tailoring or candle-making ever can," she adds.
Barron served two terms in the West Virginia House of Delegates and held the post of Liquor Commissioner under Gov. William Marland, whom a reporter discovered in 1965, eight years after he left office, driving a cab in Chicago.
Mr. Jenney moved to New York in 1966 after two years at the Massachusetts College of Art and driving a cab in Boston.
It has all escalated to the point where there are now five lawsuits in New York courts, and the landlord, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union whose first job in New York was driving a cab, has been barred from setting foot in his own building.
