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I would like to thank the folks at Mashable and our good friends at PMBuzz.com for hosting the first Mash Meet Up in NYC. The event was a great networking opportunity for all us Web 2.0 nerds, I mean professionals, and I would encourage anyone, be it a newcomer or season veteran in the Web 2.0 world, to attend a Mash Meet Up in the nearest coordinating city. The Mash Meet Up was the perfect cap to my week of conferences, and was the most beneficial of all the events this week.

 

This week, I attended AD:Tech 2007 in New York City. I, along with the rest of the Carrot Crew, was interested to see how the advertising and marketing industries are responding to the emergence and progression of Web 2.0 tools. And although I was unable to attend the entire week’s worth of events, my overall impression of the conference is that the advertising and marketing industries still do not “get it” when it comes to Social Media.

 

Wednesday evening I had the opportunity to attended Facebook Developer Garage in NYC with Jason Beckerman and Mike Radparvar. As part of a global effort to link Facebook-minded business professionals with developers, the event was held at Daylife.com’s new headquarters. A huge thank you goes out to DayLife for providing a great venue for the event. If you would like to keep track of future Facebook Developer Garage events, and you are in the tri-state area, check out the Facebook Developer Garage Group.

The conference season picks up this week as we will be attending the AdTech Conference and Facebook Developers Garage in NYC. We hope to see all of you there during this beautiful first week in November.

This weekend marked the first annual Step It Up’s National Day of Climate Action. Carrot Creative joined in support with thousands of other Americans, including eighty active members of Congress, resilient in making green initiatives a part of their daily life. The Crew supported and attended the events in New Haven, CT. We walked around the Connecticut Northeast Organic Farming Association’s Produce Market and picked up some wonderful organic vegetables, organic snacks and a whole bunch of green tidbits for our professional and personal lives.

Check out our interview with Rodney Rumford of FaceReview fame.
At this year’s Graphing Social Patterns, the buzz over the LOTTO application translated to many bloggings and media supporting our “rising star” of an application. And while we appreciate all the accolades, we are especially thankful and proud to be among the ranks of the most appealing applications detailed in FaceReview, receiving three and a half stars out of five.

I speak on behalf of the entire Carrot Crew when I say that we have always held a personal accountability for our environmental impact and how we can improve upon it. Thus, when the opportunity arose to offer environmentally friendly internet services to our clients, we embraced the evolution of our personal commitment to the environment into our business world. All clients of Carrot Creative, past, present and future, now have the ability to harness alternative energy sources by implementing hosting operations that are powered 100% by solar energy.

LOTTO is bigger and better than ever, growing to over 200,000 users. In just two months, this Facebook application has awarded prizes totaling over $1,500. Thus far, jackpots have reached $300 per week, but with hundreds of users adding the application daily and new features rolling out this week, the success of LOTTO will surely rise to new heights.