Carrot Creative Blog

First off, I want to send out a huge hello to all the great people I had the opportunity to meet in San Jose last week at Graphing Social Patterns. Graphing Social Patterns: The Business & Technology of Facebook, is a conference designed for both technical developers and business professionals to better understand the current landscape of Facebook and discuss best practices in utilizing and distributing Facebook applications. The conference had a variety of panel discussions, including a panel featuring Carrot Creative’s own Jason Beckerman. Jason discussed Application Viral Marketing, and his panel discussion can be seen HERE.

Extra! Extra! Read all about one of the Carrot Crew and CEO of Teach The People Jason Beckerman at Wired Magazine online. I can not begin to describe my excitement in having my favorite magazine, one that I greatly respect and continuously reread every month, feature a client and friend that is near and dear to the Carrot. We are all so proud of Jason and can not wait until TTP is a household name within the next year.

Be sure to check out TTP in the upcoming months, and let us know what you think of the design.

First and foremost, we would like to thank Andre Yap, Director of the Center for University Based Enterprise and Development, for the opportunity to be associated with CUBED Venture Quest. We are proud to announce that Carrot Creative’s Mike Germano was recently appointed as the Media Marketing Advisor for CUBED, serving as one of seven advisors for the center. Also, Carrot Creative has been selected to be the primary provider of all Web 2.0 and Social Media Marketing services for new ventures developed with CUBED.

Today marks a milestone for a good friend and client of Carrot Creative—Teach The People. TTP has been named one of the top 40 hottest start-ups companies and will be on exhibit this week at the TechCrunch40 Conference in San Francisco. The conference is hosted by TechCrunch and Jason Calacanis and takes place September 17th-18th, 2007.

Jason Beckerman, creator of TTP and good friend of Carrot Creative, will be in pursuit of the $50,000 cash award, along with other services and acknowledgements from an extensive group of corporate sponsors that includes, but is not limited to: Sequoia Capital, Mayfield Fund and AOL. We are so committed to the success of TTP that the Carrot Executive Team, consisting of Mike and Bobby, has joined Jason in San Francisco to further assist in informing the masses on TTP. As for Chris and I, we decided to take this time and further inform you on the identity and method of design for one of our closest clients and greatest accomplishments to date.

Kermit the Frog once said, “It ain’t easy being green!” We at Carrot completely disagree, and that’s why we are excited to introduce the first of many collaborations with Dank Apps Inc—LOTTO. Now Facebook users can win weekly jackpots with this weekly contest application. As Lotto grows, so do the jackpots. Best of all, users get up to seven tickets and roll the dice of luck without paying a cent.

Within three weeks of launching, LOTTO already has over 80,000 users and is ranked as one of the most recently active Facebook applications. Its instant and growing popularity has warranted us to start work on a 2.0 version of it, where we will be utilizing more ‘Word of Mouse’ functions. We will have new and improved updates soon, but for now check out the logo and method of design below.

Art Director Chris Petescia recently accepted a teaching position at his alma mater, Rochester Institute of Technology. Chris will be the newest addition to the RIT Graphic Design Department as an adjunct professor working specifically with graduate students. This semester he will be instructing courses in Graphical User Interface. Chris hopes to bring his stand-out work ethic, innovative design methods and real-world experience with interactive media to the classroom in an effort to perpetuate the next wave of graphically innovative minds into the business world.

We are so proud of Chris to be giving back to the world of academia early in his professional career.

Keep your fingers crossed for Nathan Verni as he puts his Ruby on Rails skills to test in the first annual Rails Rumble . This competition, which begins Saturday, September 8, challenges programmers and designers to fully design, develop and deploy a web application created using Ruby on Rails within 48 hours. After that time, the online community will have a week to evaluate the application on a variety of categories: user interface, practicality, originality and overall concept. The winning applications will receive prize packages from various sponsors including, but not limited to, Linode.com, ActiveState and Apress. The winners will be announced and on display at this year’s Ruby East Conference. For more details, and to check out Nathan’s application, go to www.railsrumble.com .

Carrot Creative is expanding it’s presence across the country!

Coming this fall, Carrot will be opening an office in Rochester, NY. This office will be the first major presence for Carrot in the great state of New York. This location will function as the primary operations hub for Art Director and newly appointed RIT professor Chris Petescia, although he will be making frequent visits to the CT offices. We intend on the Rochester office to also serve as the breeding ground for the future graphic minds and eyes of Carrot Creative.