We’re Internet famous! >carrot is a featured story on today’s edition of Guest of a Guest, the famed blog concerning all things NYC. In it, >carrot is tapped as the leading source for all things DUMBO, and considering that the area is poised to be the New Media Capital of the World that means we’re at the epicenter of the next Internet boom. Exciting times indeed, check it out!
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September 4, 2008
August 25, 2008
The Only Thing We Have to Fear…Is Another Facebook Redesign
New data has come to light that pins the success of Facebook’s new visual overhaul with a dismal 20% approval rating. According to Mark Zuckerberg, “Around 20% of our users have now migrated to the new platform and it has been received well after people get used to it.” 1 As with other novel features on Facebook the redesign has clearly been met with massive opposition. Now the real question is, what should Facebook do? That’s easy, think of the… Continue Reading
July 17, 2008
Conspiracy Theory Uncovered
Some of the folks in the office last week were playing around on Facebook on Flock browsers when we discovered that the site was using SSL. Our own Mike Germano broke the news on Twitter, and this was followed by a great write-up by Nick O’Niell on the AllFacebook blog. We all figured that Facebook was getting ready to launch a new payment platform. The news was so big that once it was published on AllFacebook, TechCrunch featured the story… Continue Reading
July 16, 2008
UBRSTAR in the Spotlight
With a little over a month till performance time, UBRSTAR is gaining some great exposure in print and in the Bloggersphere. Most recently, both UBRSTAR and Carrot Creative were mentioned on Art Things, Considered, one of the more well-regarded and relevant blogs pertaining to all things artistic. We could not be more excited about the potential this project has in bringing Social Media to the Live Stage and vice versa, and we are delighted to have worked so closely with… Continue Reading
June 25, 2008
Blossoming Into a 'SuperUser'
Traditional advertising methods are dead. In their wake lies a battleground for social web supremacy. After attending the Social Media Business School conference today and hearing our very own Mike Germano challenge traditional marketing concepts head on, it became clear to me that the time is right to revolutionize the social web. One topic that was repeated throughout the day was the idea of the “SuperUser.” The ideal SuperUser is densely connected to others within their community and has the… Continue Reading
May 19, 2008
Developing Summer Fun
I will be attending the Numenta HTM Workshop in Palo Alto, CA this June! The workshop explores Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) and the Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing (NuPIC). Not only will I be soaking up the newest developments on HTM and NuPIC, soaking up the summer Cali sun, but I have also been asked to discuss “Neuro Computation in the Cloud” during the Lightning Talks on June 24 at the workshop. This is a result of the 2nd place… Continue Reading
May 14, 2008
In Joyent We Trust
I just got off the phone with Blake Burris of Joyent, in which we discussed application scaling and hosting concerns, and I am thrilled to endorse Joyent for any application deployment needs. After working with Joyent to deploy the MLB.com Facebook Application, we found it necessary to further discuss future collaborations as well as offer support to one another as both Carrot and Joyent figure to be at the forefront of most New Media trends. Be sure to keep your… Continue Reading
May 10, 2008
SometimesDaily Beta Launches
We are thrilled to announce the Beta launch of SometimesDaily with Amanda Congdon. SometimesDaily is the newest online offering from Amanda Congdon, video blogging superstar and arguably one of the first successful pioneers in the video blogging realm. Amanda is known for her previous success on “Rocketboom,” “Amanda Across America,” and ABC News. And while her newest endeavor may offer a few similar elements from her previous successes, SometimesDaily is “an off-beat, interactive variety show exploring life’s themes through the… Continue Reading
May 7, 2008
Shoutout from the Couch
A big Shoutout from the Couch to Adam Ostrow as he recently spent the day in the Carrot office after being one of the panel judges for Carrot’s Business 2.0 course at Quinnipiac University. Although Adam’s reputation is well-known, its only fair I give him the proper introduction. Adam is the Editor and Chief of Mashable, one of the favorite blogs among the Carrot Crew. He is also the founder of MindSay and the recent owner of ReadBurner. Check out… Continue Reading
April 25, 2008
Shoutout from the Couch
Julius here. So my first Shoutout from the Couch goes to Brian Shaler. Most of you probably know Brian from his infamous “Shalerjump” seen across the webiverse, however Brian is also a very talented web developer and photographer based out of Phoenix, Arizona. Brian was recently in town for PodCamp NYC 2.0, and stopped by the office for the afternoon to get in some work and, of course, a Shalerjump. Posing for the picture with him made me feel like… Continue Reading
