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About Drew Meyers
Drew Meyers currently runs ESM Exec Designs, a design shop specializing in corporate and personal blog design. Travel addict managing Oh Hey World, a travel blog focused on generation X & Y, and real estate technology enthusiast. In his free time, Drew enjoys reading, traveling the world, spending time with passionate people, and is active member of the microfinance community.
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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Bank of America/PayPal – Is The Money You Make From Selling Personal Information Really Worth Losing the Trust of your Customers?
I’m moving out of my current house at the end of the month (I’m planning to be a nomad for the next 6 months), and have changed my address in a couple places already. Well, I went home to my parents house today to help them with some remodeling and there was some snail mail SPAM from Clear offering $25 4g internet waiting for me. It’s no secret movers are a lucrative audience to reach for marketers as the chances are very good they are in the market for new services to go along with their home and will open their checkbook for those services. I know the reasoning behind companies selling that information is … Continue reading
The Power of Social Media Demonstrated in Real Life
Yesterday evening, I had dinner at Sun Dried Tomato with Jim and Lorraine Marks and their friend Brad (a lawyer). We had just started discussing the impact social media is having on businesses when a man named Bill walked up and introduced himself to Jim, saying “Hi, I’m here because you recommended Sun Dried on Twitter” (here’s the actual Tweet). Bill’s waitress had asked him how he heard about Sun Dried and he mentioned that Jim Marks recommended the place. The waitress replied “Oh that’s funny, Jim is sitting over at table 5″. Talk about timing… The people engaging with social media are not just “internet people” who never venture out of their homes (some … Continue reading
LA Traffic Sucks
It took me 2 hours to get though LA tonight. Lame. [Photo via All American Patriots]
Pods and WordPress = AWESOME
Andrew Mattie of Diverse Solutions helped me a bit this evening with thinking through the next version of SeaMO this evening and we spent a bit of time experimenting with Pods (a plugin for WordPress) as part of that process. Pods sits on top of WordPress and allows you to add and display your own content types and I have to say it’s an awesome piece of technology (from my understanding) that can accomplish a wide range of things. My coding skills are not quite good enough to know how to build something cool with it at the moment, but you can be certain I’ll be thinking about what that something cool may be over the coming … Continue reading
The Google Street View Snowmobile
Wow, this is incredible — Google has customized a snowmobile to capture “street view” imagery from this year’s Olympics. Take a look at the video below — and if anyone knows how to get me the job driving the snowmobile around, let me know And yes, I know this is the 2nd post in a row referring to that company they call Google. Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
Parisian Love
I thought Google’s Super Bowl ad– called “Parisian Love” — was very well done (it has actually been on YouTube for 3 months according to Eric Schmidt).
