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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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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. 

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.