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Smartypig: Save For Specific Goals With SmartyPig.com
"Saving up." It's nearly an alien concept in this "buy with debt" world, but into that breach steps SmartyPig. The site lets you set and save for specific goals in their online savings accounts at a competitive 3.9% APY savings rate. There's all sorts of built-in graphs and widgets to track your progress, but then you can make it social, if you like, by making a page where your goals public and having friends and family or other random people on the net track and root for your progress, or even contribute to your goal.
Iowa Web Awards
Thanks for checking out 2008 Iowa Web Awards. Our goal is to honor all those that are taking the local internet experience in Iowa to the next level. We are currently taking category suggestions followed by community generated nominations. Once we have the categories and nominees chosen, we will open up the voting for you to decide this year's 2008 Iowa internet all-stars.
The Clouds are Building in Iowa
It's been known for some time that Iowa was full of corn, pigs, soybeans, etc, but now it's starting to become known for data centers. More interestingly, cloud computing data centers. With cheap electricity (of which 8% of that is wind generated) and lots of land, both Google and Microsoft are building large data centers in the state. Google is buliding out their large DC in Council Bluffs, and Microsoft is putting their's somewhere in the Des Moines area, although we don't know where yet, but my guess will be somewhere south or west. My assumption here will be that MSFT will buy enough land so that they can build their own wind farm, putting their new datacenter on their own power grid. Google (my assumption here again) is doing the same thing. They purchased additional acres south of Council Bluffs, and my guess is to build a wind farm to power their server farm.
Microsoft Data Center in West Des Moines, IA
This “next-gen” facility will be different than the traditional data center, supposedly using the “container” model they have been working on. Basically a container is a semi-trailer (or shipping container that you see on barges and trains). Within this container are 1,000 - 2,000 servers. These containers are, literally, trailers that can be hauled in via trucks to scale the system. Microsoft has built a similar data center in Chicago that has two floors. Currently, the entire first floor is made up of 150-200 of these containers.
Microsoft Embraces Data Center Containers
"The entire first floor of Chicago is going to be containers," Microsoft director of data center services Michael Manos said this morning in his keynote at Data Center World in Las Vegas. "This represents our first container data center. The containers are going to be dropped off and plugged into network cabling and power." The second floor of the immense facility will be a traditional raised-floor data center, Manos said.
Iowa Communications Network
The Iowa Communications Network provides high quality, full-motion video; data; high-speed Internet connections; and telephone service to a variety of authorized users, which includes state and federal government agencies, K-12 and higher education, hospitals and public libraries. Video is a tool for distance learning connecting Iowans at multiple sites for classes, meetings, and training. Real-time interaction is possible via microphone between two or more sites. Through partnerships with education, medicine, the judicial system, government agencies, and the National Guard, the Network brings this live video to around 758 sites, or nodes, around Iowa, located in schools, National Guard armories, libraries, hospitals, and federal and state government offices.
Microsoft to build $500M data center in Iowa
The Legislature passed measures creating tax incentives aimed at luring the computer giant to Iowa, to build new power generating facilities and improve the state's communications network. Those efforts paid off with Microsoft's decision, said Senate Majority Leader Michael Gronstal, D-Council Bluffs.
Culver to announce Microsoft picks West Des Moines site
Microsoft is creating 75 full-time jobs paying an average annual salary of up to $70,000 at that center.
To receive the Iowa tax breaks signed Feb. 28 by Culver, Microsoft must invest at least $200 million in the state.
Last year the state approved a measure that helped persuade Google to build a $600 million data center near Council Bluffs. That package exempted electricity purchases and capital investments from the state's sales tax.
West Des Moines site of new Microsoft data center
Microsoft Corp. has selected West Des Moines as the site of its new $500 million data center.
The center will be built on a 42-acre parcel at the intersection of Booneville Road and Xavier Place and will house large-scale World Wide Web services for Microsoft's online services business. It will employ 50 to 75 people, with an average salary $70,000.
People on the Move in the Social Media Industry: August 8, 2008
Hillary Brown join Lava Row on July 15th as a social media strategist after three years at LA-based Passenger
Des Moines Web Geeks
Des Moines Web Geeks Kickoff event is planned for Thursday, August 14th.
We’ll kickoff presentations at 7, come around 6:30 to get a tour of the new coworking space. First up will be an overview and discussion of the Django framework followed by an adhoc
SarahLacy.com: Me in the Midwest
Both cities taught me so much about how the Web is changing entrepreneurship and really people's lives in unique ways. I have tons to say about it, but sadly, I haven't had a spare moment to do so.
Calling All Iowa Angel Investors
Angels that understand that Iowa's startup climate is tremendously under served. There are countless entrepreneurs toiling over solutions that are fundable and profitable business models waiting to emerge...if only...
socialmedian: The Iowa Network
The Iowa Network - Social Median News Network all about iowa!!!
Get blogging already
Millions of writers populate the blogosphere, giving themselves a little exposure - and you something to do at work. A few Des Moines-based bloggers told us about the benefits of blogging and what makes a good blog so click-worthy.
Could Des Moines be a web 2.0 hotbed? « nerdflood
I have yet to find a more dedicated and engaged group of social media enthusiasts outside of the Iowa demographic. And while these people may not be creating web 2.0 startups out of their garages, they are definitely heavily involved in the web 2.0 univer
High-tech changes to Iowa's image
Google and Microsoft are doing their share to break down the stereotypes of what Iowa is and show us what Iowa can be. As a technology employer and operator of several Midwest data centers, I can tell you it's not easy to find the right talent for the eng
State confirms Microsoft coming to Iowa | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register
The state agreed to provide sales and use tax exemptions on purchases of computers, equipment and electricity necessary for use in a Web portal business with an investment of at least $200 million in Iowa.
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