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Data Centers, Power Consumption, and Global Warming - Will the web crash?

Written by: Tyler Shears

So you’ve heard the hype on going green, wouldn’t you like to know how the internet fits into the big picture of saving energy? Every time you search Google you could power an 11-watt light bulb for an hour… Think that’s bad? Wait until you put that into perspective including sites like YouTube and every other bandwidth hog on the web…

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What is Web 3.0?

Written by: David Bayer

What is Web3.0?

Web 3.0, according to Wikipedia, is a term used to describe the future of the web. Web 2.0 would refer to the recent evolution of the web. A brief description of this evolution would be apropos. Wikipedia explores the following ideas in the first 179 words of its definition of Web 2.0

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Social Software: Applications & Sites that Make Me Giddy

Written by: David Bayer

While social software is usually associated with web technologies, I personally don’t know why any collaborative software, social technology or conversational technology would not be included in the definition. In any case, a handful of these technologies have become necessities in my daily activities.

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Microsoft Windows Startup Sounds Over The Years

Written by: juicebox

Came across this on YouTube today and thought I would share it. It’s a video someone made on YouTube which chronicalizes the Startup Sounds of Microsoft Windows from 3.11 to Windows Vista.
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Use Wayback Machine to Check Out Your Programming Past

Written by: juicebox

If you design websites, and have for a few years, I’m sure you’ve wondered at one time or another how much you’ve developed those skills. Yet, have you really gone back in time to check that out?
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Just in Time for Earthday ‘08: New Energy-Saving Google Search Engine

Written by: Emily Ferreira

As many of you may know, yesterday was Earthday (April 22^nd) and, coincidently, I recently ran across this incredible new service that I thought would strike a cord for all environmentally conscious folks.

For many of us, Google is our second brain. Read the rest of this entry »

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Zillow Mortgage Marketplace

Written by: David Bayer

Zillow Shakes Up The Online Mortgage Industry – But Does It Make Cents?

For the last 10 years, the online mortgage industry has been predominately dominated by lead generators such as Lending Tree, Eloan, NexTag & LowerMyBills. In fact, according to a Forrester research report in 2006, nearly 75% of all online mortgage applications were a result of online applications with lead generators who sell qualified borrower prospects to a stable of hungry mortgage brokers and lenders. Zillow’s transparent and free – yes free – mortgage marketplace aims to disrupt the mortgage lead generation category.

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Go Green or Lose The Web - Servers will Crash, Will we make it?

Written by: Tyler Shears

The internet and the environment directly affect each other and most of us don’t even realize it. The servers responsible for the internet as we know it put off massive amounts of heat, and with the overall climate changes and heat on the rise, what are the possible implications? Well let me tell you… Read the rest of this entry »

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Tyler Shears on Finance SEO, SMM, Personas, and SMX

Written by: Tyler Shears

I was interviewed at SMX and it went live on YOUMoz last Friday. Figured I would link over to it, maybe someone wants to see my nerdy pictures.

“Tyler Shears is a bright search marketer working at Databanq, which specializes in the financial services game. We met at SMX West after my local panel (on which note you should read this fresh, enlightening, and generally awesome interview with Brian Gil of Yahoo, who was a co-panelist), which was great because I don’t often get to meet people in search who aren’t really active in the blogosphere. Tyler and I did an interview by email, and he was kind enough to share insights on the hyper-competitive space that is financial services (which comprises credit cards, loans, mortgages, and any kind of financing/line of credit you can imagine). Enjoy :).”

Read the full interview from SEOMoz posted by Gab Goldenberg of SEOROI.com

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Extending Search Marketing Beyond the Search

Written by: David Bayer

Jeremy Liew provides insight into the future of search marketing in his post Monetizing Search. As I indicated directly to Jeremy, this really got me going on a number of thoughts as it relates to the data we are currently analyzing across our network. Our findings have been the following: Read the rest of this entry »

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