This past weekend Dan, Tony, Jeff and myself attended the Cleanweb Hackathon at the NYU Campus. The 24-hour event challenged programmers, college students, entrepreneurs and the like to create solutions for problems related to energy efficiency, transportation and clean technology. As Cleanweb notes on their website, the hackathon was an opportunity “to demonstrate the impact of applying information technology to resource constraints.” Companies such as Tendril, Genability, and Brighter Planet granted attendees access to their existing API’s, allowing hackers to… Continue Reading
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January 31, 2012
January 23, 2012
Year Of The Programmer
Recently a friend was telling me that the marketing people at his office were often asking the developers for different data sets they needed to conduct their research. It was hard for them to get to those requests quickly though, because the developers were busy as it was. It was what he told me next that really got my attention, however: instead of waiting on the Dev team to solve the problem for them, the marketing team made up for… Continue Reading
December 20, 2011
Pirate Astronauts
Lee joins the Carrot family as our newest developer. Welcome him to the family with some Twitter love: @the_gastropod We work in a world heavy with management, red tape, legal mumbo-jumbo, and an overall disdain for fun things. This landscape is perhaps the most rugged in the lands of technology companies. Carrot has abandoned this world. They’ve taken to space as a crew of self-proclaimed pirate astronauts. This is what I found most appealing about the prospect of working at… Continue Reading
October 13, 2011
Join the Carrot Family!
While my favorite thing about Carrot is the people and being small enough to know everyone’s favorite food (note to self: pick up peanut butter filled pretzels for Dan), it’s still exciting that we’re large enough to offer great benefits that rival any New York agency. We’re still working on that free cafeteria, but we do have medical, dental and vision insurance plans. We prefer that our team members spend their time worrying about how awesome the work they’re creating… Continue Reading
September 29, 2011
Platlas: the video
Introducing: Platlas from Carrot Creative on Vimeo. Here’s a quick look at the people and thinking behind Platlas, the first ever social media platform atlas. Meet the engineers, managers and research analysts that made Platlas for Facebook come to life. And see for yourself exactly what all the fuss about, and how you can use Platlas to better understand the countless interactions and connections that are possible on Facebook.
September 22, 2011
F8: What’s Launching
We’re here in force at F8 and jazzed about the platform changes in store at Facebook, some of which we’ve been honored to build with via our work on the The Daily Facebook app. We will be following up to this post soon, with our additional thoughts on what this means for users, brands and what will surely be a leap in the evolution of how we share, experience and archive our daily lives. Announced today: Timeline: The story… Continue Reading
September 19, 2011
Introducing: Platlas
Platlas.com: A love letter to our favorite social networks. Earlier this summer, we took on the somewhat daunting task of exhaustively mapping out the ecosystem of Facebook. Even though Carrot is a Preferred Development Consultant and we consider ourselves severely versed in the Platform, we still learned A LOT by delving into Facebook so expansively. However, our ultimate goal was to narrow down a story within this vast array of features, into something compelling and widely relevant to us: our clients and our industry. Platform education is… Continue Reading
August 31, 2011
Fluffy Animals + Love = Dream Job
Jeff joins Carrot as a Development Intern turned newest Developer. Wish him luck with a sweet tweet: @jescalan I never would have thought that I would owe getting my dream job to a guinea pig. Just a few months ago, I was a senior at Hamilton College, trying to balance a full course load with my senior thesis (evaluating interfaces using electroencephalography), an on-campus job, and the search for a real job. I stumbled across Carrot Creative while browsing Forrst, a community for… Continue Reading
August 9, 2011
carrot.is/live!
We’ve just launched our latest Carrot Labs creation: carrot.is. What started out as a social aggregation project turned into a multi-plaform directory of your favorite agency geeks. If you’ve run into any of us in real life, you’ll know that our brightly-colored biz cards come printed with a custom QR code. These codes activate each staff member’s carrot.is mobile site: an extended business card where you can view a quick bio, utilize touch-activated contact info, and continue onto social profiles…. Continue Reading
April 20, 2011
Quick Prototyping of Ideas
Part of Carrot Creative’s business advantage is our ability to move quickly through the online process, from idea all the way to product. Whether client work or side project, prototyping is a central part of this and we are constantly prototyping new ideas and technologies. If you can imagine an environment where creatives and strategists generate unique and often challenging development problems for our production team, each and every day, you’ll understand why functional models are so important. Crawl Before… Continue Reading
