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Carrot Creative’s Halloween Costume: Geeky

Buzzfeed has been featuring snapshots of the viral web in realtime on their popular website since 2006.  They highlight the kind of things you’d want to pass along to your friends; obscure subcultures breaking into the mainstream, outrageous videos or ordinary guys having their 15-minutes of fame.

Dumbo loft, check.
Free Brooklyn beer, check (thank you RRE Ventures).
Everyone in room geeking-out over mobile apps, check.

This pretty much sums up the Monday Mobile Brooklyn event this past Monday night where our very own Robert Gaafar, Carrot Creative’s CEO presented our submission to the NYC Big Apps contest: “Where Brooklyn App?”

Chris Petescia contributed to this report

After decades of research, countless Erlenmeyer flasks, and several weeks of hapless finger-painting, we’re finally able to announce the launch of The Onion Microfiche. The first-ever iPhone app that delivers a world of Onion headlines directly to your Oxford shirt pocket.

(FYI- Some of our favorites apps are listed at the end of this post… but they only appear if you read the whole thing )

This July will mark the one-year anniversary of Apple’s App Store opening for business. Applying the music store commission model to applications meant that developers (after school entrepreneurs to full-fledged software companies) can not only develop for cutting edge devices & technologies with support, but also find digital distribution at the source with freedom to charge as they see fit. Now having just surpassed 25,000 apps (Fortune), it’s interesting to see what some of the most successful have been. Games to software extensions to business portals: what users consider to be their personal “top apps” likely range all across the board. Some of the best are undoubtably simple lifehacks & convenience apps, likely from the same time-saving minds who develop browser extensions & plugins.

Citizen journalism is the most informative innovation in the mobile space since the introduction of the camera phone, and our good friends at CBSEyeMobile are leading the way with their new application developed specifically for the iPhone. It’s already been featured on several sites including TechCrunch, Mashable, and TUAW since launching last week and is garnering fabulous reviews from all around the blogosphere.

We’re very excited to be working with the CBSEyeMobile team to build other amazing social network integration tools and can’t wait to see what else the team has up their sleeves.