My buddy Kurt Daradics and I started a group last year called Meeting of the Minds. We invite our friends to a private room at Suki 7 in Westlake Village, CA and drive a conversation with a featured guest around technology and interactive media.

Last week was off the hook. We brought out Steven McClurg from EA’s social gaming division. Steven shared some great insight on the current trends and monetary successes of casual and virtual gaming examples in social media. Ears were tuned to converstion on gaming business models, built on social platforms, such as EA’s launch of Scrabble on Facebook.

Special thanks to Jonathan Dingman and Fireside Media for posting some great photos.

Thanks to Sean Percival for a nice post on lalawag.

This month’s MOTM was better than ever. MOTM has evolved into a great atmosphere for our friends to get together to chat about the live web and find opportunities to take part. It’s grown organically, beyond our initial lunch of four people, into a tech exploration and problem solving community mechanism. I love it when friends call me after the event to tell me they’ve learned something big and met a like-mind to work together with.

It was great having Bryan Monroe this month from Eventful.com showing their demand it technology and driving conversation on the 2.0 event concept.

Special thanks to Ben Kuo & Wil Fernandez for the amazing photos and TechZulu for shooting video.