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Scout Books welcomed as Carbon Ads advertiser

Scout Books is an online store that offers a range of notebooks with templated pages that help you take notes on various themes more effectively. For instance, the pages of the 33 Bottles of Wine notebook have fields for details about the wine, such as year, grape and varietal, room for notes, and a flavor wheel for accurate recording of the experience. Another example is the Type Sketcher notebook is a book of type grids for designing typefaces and includes quick guides on this art.

Scout Books is a project of Pinball Publishing, a creative publishing company in Portland, Oregon. Pinball Publishing prides itself on using only recycled paper, vegetable-based ink and renewable energy sources.

Carbon is glad to have Scout Books onboard, and we're sure that our creative lot of publishers and viewers alike across the network will be clamoring for these fantastic products.

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Full Sail University welcomed as Carbon Advertiser

Full Sail University has been training people in music, art and film for over thirty years. Offering education to both students on its Florida campus, the university is also on the forefront of modern education with degrees offered online to students all over America.

Originally started in 1978 by Jon Phelps to teach audio and music, Full Sail expanded its offerings beyond that field with its first film course in 1988, and now covers much of the entertainment industry with design, show production, game design, animation, and entertainment business courses.

Full Sail University's unique approach to training creatives makes it a perfect fit with Carbon's vast network of publishers in design, development and photography.

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PunchTab welcomed as Carbon Advertiser

PunchTab is a service that helps its users add loyalty programs to their blogs, brands and businesses instantly. With PunchTab, your site's users can rack up points every day by interacting with the site and sharing content on social networks, and redeem rewards from your loyalty catalog when they've earned enough.

PunchTab was founded by Ranjith Kumaran, who also co-founded YouSendIt.com, a file hosting and sharing site, and Mehdi Ait Oufkir, who in the past founded JellyDo.com, a location-based reminder service. PunchTab is based in Silicon Valley.

PunchTab's offering is perfect for Carbon's network of influencers, entrepreneurs and creatives, who are always looking for new ways to engage with their audiences. Welcome aboard, PunchTab.

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Wistia welcomed as Carbon Advertiser

Wistia provides professional video hosting that makes it easy to manage, share and track video. Wistia helps marketers take advantage of powerful tracking and analytics features, allowing businesses to track engagement, location, and even the length of a user's viewing.

Wistia was founded by Chris Savage, a filmmaker from Brown University and now Wistia's CEO, and Brendan Schwartz, who also graduated from Brown with a degree in Computer Engineering and is the company's CTO.

Wistia takes online video as a marketing tool to the next level for all sorts of businesses, and is a perfect fit for Carbon's entrepreneurial network.

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'Betahacks' joins the Founders & Business Circle

Carbon would like to welcome Betahacks to the Founders & Business Circle. Embracing Startup culture, Betahacks brings together the enduring passions of Nick Frost, Eric Ingram and Melissa Ingram. Through this blog they share their startup experience, connect with like minded hackers, launch new products and change the world.

The trio also make up Beta Inc, a group determined to make a difference in the life of startups everywhere through their products StartupLi.st, a daily showcase of the best startups around, and BetaCandy, a service dedicated to connecting startups with early adopters. 

Focused on bringing startups together and providing them with valuable insight and guidance, Betahacks is the perfect fit in Carbon's engaged and connected network of hungry and passionate entrepreneurs. 

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WonderProxy welcomed as Carbon Advertiser

WonderProxy provides HTTP proxy servers around the globe to help developers test their GeoIP web applications. This service makes testing and re-testing incredibly fast, easy and efficient, and makes sure users test the application and not the hack. 

WonderProxy is based in Montreal, Quebec, and was founded by PHP developer Paul Reinheimer and software engineer Will Roberts. Their service now provides servers in 41 locations in 27 countries, allowing developers all over the world to check their applications easily; changing proxies is as easy as just two clicks. Users of all types and sizes can choose from one of four main price plans, and developers working on the road or from untrusted access points can sign up to the VPN plan. 

WonderProxy brings a truly valuable service that focuses on doing one thing and doing it very well, and now helps developers of all kinds across the Carbon network. 

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Ronin welcomed as Carbon Advertiser

Ronin is an online invoicing and time-tracking software for small businesses and freelancers. This app makes it easy for users to manage clients, projects, invoices and estimates, so that they focus on the more important things like growing their business and looking after their customers. 

Ronin is based in Mountain View, CA, and was started with the idea that quality, powerful invoicing could be delivered to everyone who needs it at a price they could afford. With its comprehensive yet simple suite of tools, Ronin includes features such as expenses tracking, customizable invoices via HTML/CSS and payment integration with both PayPal and Authorize.net. Users can sign up and try the web-based app for free, with no installation required and a very quick setup. Serious freelancers and business then have three Pro payment plans available to suit their needs. 

Offering a powerful software backed up with free upgrades, dedicated customer service and SSL data encryption, Ronin brings a truly useful service to the creative professionals of Carbon's network.

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RocketTheme welcomed as Carbon Advertiser

RocketTheme is the place to be for premium professional themes and templates, available for open-source platforms including Joomla, WordPress, phpBB3, Drupal and Magento. Each theme club offers several subscription packages, and users can view live demos of the themes before signing up. 

RocketTheme was founded in 2004 by Andy Miller under the name MamboDev.com. It soon evolved into a template club site and was relaunched as RocketTheme. It is now the number one template club for Joomla, which users can join alongside one of the other four clubs for the different CMS on offer. Signing up includes complimentary access to the new Extensions Club, and there is also a Developers Club which expands upon the regular theme features for greater flexibility and control. 

Backed by powerful developer tools and online support, RocketTheme brings quality themes to Carbon's network, through Carbon's similarly high-quality ads. 

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'Eclipse Color Themes' joins the Code & Dev Circle

Carbon is pleased to welcome Eclipse Color Themes to the Code & Dev Circle. This site allows users to easily download and maintain color themes for the open-source software development environment Eclipse. Users can also create new themes or edit existing ones right within the site, using the built-in theme editor. The downloadable plugin allows users to easily switch between themes exported from the site as XML, and themes can also be downloaded and installed in EPF format. 

Eclipse Color Themes is brought to you by software developers Felix Dahlke and Roger Dudler. Felix is based in Cologne, Germany and currently works for Update Software AG, while Roger works for Meteomedia and lives in St. Gallen, Switzerland. The pair are constantly working to improve 'Eclipse Color Themes' with support for different programming languages, styles and editors. 

'Eclipse Color Themes' offers an easy and customizable solution for improving the look of Eclipse. Carbon also understands the importance of aesthetics, bringing only attractive, well-designed ads to the site. 

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'xheight' joins the Design Circle

Carbon is pleased to welcome xheight to the Design Circle. Launching this week, 'xheight' is a blog about ideas and thoughts, collecting together a group of top design authors to write about their lifestyle and answer the question "What does design mean to you?".  

xheight is brought to you by graphic designer David Bushell, who is originally from north-west England and works for London-based web design and online marketing agency Base Creative. David also runs the design bookmark repository Design Heroes, as well as LoveDsgn, a social website for designers, typographers and other creatives.

David hopes to provide a collaborative and unrestricted platform to designers through 'xheight', giving them free reign to write what they wish as long as they are sincere, honest and personal. Designers wishing to write on 'xheight' are encouraged to get in touch. 

Delving into understanding design and the lifestyle it entails, 'xheight' brings in-depth, thought-provoking writing to Carbon's network. Carbon compliment this content-rich site with fantastic brands for the design lifestyle. 

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'One Thing Well' joins the Code & Dev Circle

Carbon would like to welcome One Thing Well to the Code & Dev Circle. The blog is named after Doug McIlroy's summation of the Unix philosophy: "...do one thing and do it well", and as such is dedicated to showcasing simple and useful applications, tools and utilities across all platforms.

One Thing Well is brought to you by freelance journalist Jack Mottram, who lives in Glasgow, Scotland and Jack writes for a range of newspapers and magazines. He also works for web design, development and hosting shop Surly, where the team create attractive, accesible websites.

Everything featured on 'One Thing Well', discovered by Jack or submitted by its readers, displays focused design and usability. Similarly, Carbon's focused ads bring relevant, fantastic brands to 'One Thing Well' and its engaged readers.

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'Perfection Kills' joins the Code & Dev Circle

Carbon would like to welcome Perfection Kills to the Code & Dev Circle. This blog, written by developer Juriy Zaytsev, serves as a place for him to explore JavaScript by example, delving deep into code to see what works, what doesn't and why. 

Russian-born Juriy is now based in New York City and works as a freelance web developer, as well as a core developer for the Prototype.js JavaScript Library. He is a self-confessed junkie for clean code, and spends much of his work taming various aspects of JavaScript, focused on making it semantic and accessible. 

Through his simple, focused blog design, Juriy concentrates on in-depth analysis of his code, something which he is clearly very passionate about. Carbon now provides great brands to compliment his content-rich blog. 

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Alex Young joins the Code & Dev Circle

Carbon is pleased to welcome Alex Young to the Code & Dev Circle. On his site Alex presents his current commercial and personal projects, alongside a blog where he writes articles about programming, posts about industry events, and shares his thoughts on current technology trends.  

By day, Alex is the lead developer and designer for Reuters Real Estate, but after hours he is the software engineer for his London-based web application firm Helicoid. Through his company Alex has built five highly-useful Ruby on Rails apps, including Helipad, an online note-taking application; time-tracking software TikTrac; and Deadline, "the simplest calendar ever made". He also writes at DailyJS, a popular JavaScript programming blog.

Alex shares his work and life as a programmer through a simple, focused site. His fantastic content is now complemented by similarly focused Carbon ads, bringing awesome brands to his readers.

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'The Russians Used a Pencil' joins the Design Circle

Carbon is pleased to welcome The Russians Used a Pencil to the Design Circle. This blog celebrates simplicity in design, and serves as a source of inspiration to everyone from engineers and programmers to designers and architects. 

'The Russians Used a Pencil' is brought to you by New York designer Dan Provost. Currently working as a motion graphic designer for Pitchfork Media, Dan is also the co-founder, with Tom Gerhardt, of Studio Neat. Their company is focused on "making simple things and making things simple", and their first product is The Glif, a elegant tripod mount and stand for the iPhone 4. 

'The Russians Used a Pencil' brings smart design insight to readers of the Carbon network. Carbon supplements this great content with similarly simple yet effective ads. 

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'Mohawk Fine Papers' welcomed as Carbon Advertiser

Mohawk Fine Papers is the largest manufacturer of premium papers in North America. With an incredible range of products available online including brochures, letterpress papers, business cards and more, Mohawk will meet your print requirements.

Based in New York, Mohawk Fine Papers is a company with a long history. Founded in 1878, Mohawk now operates six modern machines with over 175,000 tonnes capacity, creating fine paper distributed to over 50 countries worldwide. Alongside its reputation for quality products, service and innovation, Mohawk is known throughout the industry for its high environmental standards and sustainable practices. 

In a world moving towards more and more digital products, Mohawk prove that there is still a place for high-quality physical items, and that print is definitely not dead. Mohawk now brings these products through Carbon's similarly high-quality ads across the network.

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'Interstate' joins the Code & Dev Circle

Carbon would like to welcome Interstate to the Code & Dev Circle. This handy application allows businesses and developers to keep on top of development tasks by creating "roadmaps". These step-by-step overviews allow teams to see how they're getting on with current projecta, and what needs to be done to complete them.

Interstate is brought to you by BakedCode, a web app company based in Birmingham, England. The app is designed to help teams organize their workflow, with features such as progress updates, staff management and due dates to keep everyone on schedule. Users can view the Interstate roadmap to see how the BakedCode team is progressing with new features, such as an iPhone version of Interstate currently in development. 

Interstate is a highly-useful app for developers and designers wishing to manage their work. Now part of the Code & Dev Circle, the Interstate site is now supplemented with fantastic ads from Carbon for other great brands its users will love. 

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'Doodlers Anonymous' joins the Art & Design Circle

Carbon is pleased to welcome Doodlers Anonymous to the Art & Culture Circle. This site serves as a permanent home for spontaneous doodles submitted by its readers, and celebrates the immediate nature of doodles and sketches drawn on everything from notebooks to napkins and torn receipts.

Doodlers Anonymous is brought to you by OKAT, founder of street art intervention site Are You Generic?, along with designer Jamie Tao and developer Hugo Seijas. Their site brings together a wide range of artwork and promotes the best featured artists and their work. Readers can get involved by submitting their own artwork, or by becoming a member to get involved in the community. They can also buy some great doodle merchandise from the online store.

'Doodlers Anonymous' brings fantastic user-submitted artwork to the Carbon network, which supplements this great content with awesome brands that the art community will love.