I was recently confirmed as a speaker at this year’s NY Digital Basins Software Forum. This two day conference, May 22-23, is presented by Concerted Networks and will be located at the Auburn Public Theater in Auburn, New York. I will be speaking on day two of the conference on the topic of “Creating Award Winning User Interfaces for Web 2.0 Sites.”

Carrot Creative’s Crew would like to invite family and friends to come celebrate our company’s 3rd Birthday and the opening of our new Brooklyn office. We are calling the night “Cocktails & Carrots” and I assure you it will be a ton of fun. The party will take place Thursday April 17th from 7 - 9 at our new pad Suite 329 on 55 Washington St. Brooklyn NY.

This is a quick little video I put together with some of the raw footage I took from the Ski Vacation that My Father, Brother, & I took during the winter. When I have a little more time I will make it into something sick.

Ski Trip from Mike Germano on Vimeo.

Germano Ski Trip

My inbox receives about 200 emails a week from a diverse group of people. I find that an email address is a direct indication of a persons age. I decided to make a little Email Time Line in a persons life to illustrate my point.

JohnnySmith85@aol.com The first email you ever make as your parents are looking over your shoulder.

Skatrman69@yahoo.com The first email you make when your parents are not looking. Plus the #69 or incorrectly spelt Skater lets your friends and email recipients know how cool and or tough you are.

John.Smith@COLLEGE.edu No pressure in picking this email because it was given to you by your college. It is easy to remember because you are going to be intoxicated most of the time.

John.Smith@gmail.com After you graduate college you leave both the happiest place on earth and your email address. Now you have to pick a fresh new smarter online identity. Safe bet is to go with something similar to your college one, and just make the excuse that it was easy to remember. Remember creative email addresses look cool on a bar napkin not a resume.

John.Smith@(InsertFortune500Comany).com Back to getting an email address picked for you. This email is a great way to show x-girlfriends what type of job you have when you email her wishing her a “happy” birthday. (If you have a corner office just attach the picture in the email)

TheSmiths33@sbcglobal.net Once you get married sharing is not limited to your physical space it includes an email address. While it might be embarising to write your new joint email address down on the PTA sign up sheet, at least you can not be held totally responsible when they change the start of a little leauge game.

Skatrman69@yahoo.com This oldy will come in handy again when you attempt to threaten any guy who tries to date your daughter posing as her cool and or tough older Boyfriend from another town.

John.Smith@shaddygroveretirementhome.com At this point picking out an email is the least of your worries. It is simple but you are going to forget anyway.

JohnSmith19430574@Heaven.org or JohnSmith24785@hell.org After scanning the inbox of all your prior email address the Big Guy upstairs will assign you with one or the other account.

It is a Saturday night, I have a bad cold and have been writing and researching for the better part of the last two days. Well I just wanted to get a Time Stamp on one of my thoughts as I begin to work on what I hope to be an interesting article on the politics behind Social Networking and the micro online governments they create. I am not sure which is tougher to shake this cold or my Machievilianspace Theory.  

The New York Football Giants defeated the New England (BOSTON) Patriots. I can not even explain how happy I am. Hopefully this quick video clip of what the outside of my apartment in Hoboken looked like can explain things. People were going nuts, and the police ended up closing down Washington ave. 

I am proud to announce that Carrot Creative will be making the much anticipated move to NYC in March 2008. After a long, arduous search, we have found our NYC home in Brooklyn, specifically the DUMBO area. Check out My Flicker for photos of this stellar space.
It seems like yesterday when we began Carrot in a small office in Connecticut. Now, only a few years later, we are rooting ourselves in the best and brightest city in the world. Our success would not be possible without the love and belief that our family, friends and clients have given us through these years. Thank you for that.

Mashable.com hosted their MashMeet December 18th and had Ask Franco do the interviews. Jason and I did another pitch for Dank App’s The Lotto & Be Santa. I have included the video even with the really crappy voice dubbing. 

Just like to remind anyone interested in Social Media, Web 2.0, Social Networking Sites, or the Future of Social Media to attend the MashMeet in NYC this Tuesday, Dec 18, from 7-9 pm at the Village Pourhouse (64 Third Ave). Several members of the Carrot Crew attended last month’s MashMeet and had such a great time that Robert, Kyle, ABB (Steve), Christian (Shaboo), Jason, Mike (Radparvar) and I will all be in attendance tomorrow. Hope to see everyone there.

Seattle was great. The conferance was great. The people were great, and this makes me feel great. Speaking on the panel was fun and I think I added more humor then facts since Dave McClure at the end said to me “We didn’t learn anything but it was fucking fun”. We did have some laughs but I felt that we touched on some interesting points on friending habits, news source, marketing, and professionalism on Facebook. The conference had some really great panels, and had some boring Facebook 101 presentations. I sometimes take for granted I have been growing up with these websites and some people are using them for the first time. The one thing I really enjoy about these conference unlike in many other industries is that Internet Social Network  people are there to help others. ( This will be a post in the future) Anyway back to Seattle, the city has such a positive energy and artistic vibe that you can feel. It is obvious why people want to work and live in Seattle, regardless how bad their Baseball team is.