Our brilliant brains I studied neuroscience in school because I was curious about how people work, and I still am. I learned about a lot of really amazing things our brains can do. For example, we are super good at understanding language. In fcat, I can wtrie a sentnece wtih all the lrettes in wdros scebramld up, and you wluod siltl be albe to urtnnesadd it pltefecry. You can understand someone who has a strong accent, slurs their speech, and… Continue Reading
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March 27, 2012
SXSW N00b Lesson #1
I think it was @Dens who said it first. The theme of SXSW is A-B-C. No, not that A-B-C but “Always Be Charging.” Seriously with 20,000 people tugging the heartstrings and the bandwidth of At&T’s 3G it is SO necessary to find a charge anywhere you could. I was doing just that, more specifically, at the Zya Music Party with Nick Cannon spinning behind me. There I was catching up with some friends from PepsiCo when I realized I was… Continue Reading
March 23, 2012
Yup, it’s true: Carrot.is/hiring
It’s a scientific fact that Carrot Creative is the best and most badass company…ever. How did we become so amazing? Very carefully (seriously). Every person at Carrot has been vetted, interviewed, stalked, and hazed very carefully to ensure that they are the best of the best. And honestly, the Carrots are the most important part of the company. The Carrot office is known for producing brilliant work all while having fun doing it. That’s why we need to find candidates… Continue Reading
February 14, 2012
CSS Patterns, Evolved
Disclaimer: This is a technical post on html and css, intended for those who are very familiar with the languages. The value of clean semantics There are a lot of web activists that promote semantic markup, and very early in my journey into front end dev I got swept up in this. There’s something really beautiful about writing really clean html, with no extra elements or “utility classes” (classes that you put on your elements in order to recycle a… Continue Reading
January 31, 2012
Social Media for a Cleaner Web
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
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
