THE DREAM IN ACTION

Recently, the fact that I have a semi-successful blog has caught wind around my office. I was asked this week to answer a few questions on blogging that will be used in some presentation about why we should be using blogs for communication in the corp world. I hope the presentation reaches some people, but [...]

Before I left on the honeymoon I was interviewed by the Chicago Tribune about my use of and help with Foursquare, the article turned out awesome! I hope this leads to more use in Chicago. Here’s the quote… “I probably don’t call and have phone conversations with people as much as I did because I [...]

@mollstar just made me the happiest man in the world. Now we’re headed to Costa Rica for 2 weeks. See ya on the flip.

I’ve been thinking a lot about customer development over the past few months. It’s a new way of thinking as a company, it’s a new way of approaching marketing, product building, and customer service. It’s changing, or maybe already has changed, the way companies think about the relationships with their customers, and it’s never been [...]

Click on any image to watch the full video. Do you even realize how difficult this trick, a flip, is to do on a surfboard? Unreal. Full video here: http://surfermag.com/av/flash/introducing-matt-meola/

This blog post is not meant to be insightful or meant to share an opinion on any particular topics. It’s sole intent is to ask you your opinion. I have a question. Is the casual style of writing that comes along with blogging a good thing or a bad thing for society? Some times I [...]

Thursday night I had the pleasure of meeting Charles Adler, one of the founders of Kickstarter, the New York based group funding platform. Kickstarter serves as a way for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, and explorers (as they say on the site) to make their dreams come true, post a project, and collect the [...]

In a recent project, I’ve been doing customer development here in Chicago to help out Foursquare. If you’re not familiar with customer development it’s gathering feedback from potential customer on what they’d like to see from your product in order for it to be of value to them. It’s been a fun experiment in biz [...]

Last night I got an email from Amazon for being an AmazonAssociate. They wanted to bring my attention to the fact that they’ve (finally) integrated Twitter into their associates bar so that I could share products on Twitter. Yea, it’s pretty late to this game but it’s good to see a giant like Amazon admit [...]

These days it seems like 25% of the ads on TV are for app this or app that. The iPhone app store just hit 100k in applications. Now the Verizon/Motorola/Google Droid comes out and says iCan do everything that the iPhone can’t. You know, Droid Does. One of the coolest things about this Droid phone [...]

This weekend @Mollstar and I had a long (relative to the amount of time I can usually get her to talk about the web) conversation about how we don’t really understand who plays all these Facebook games. Other than Poker from Zynga, which I play a decent amount of, I don’t understand who grows virtual [...]