Just did my first guest post ever! 

And to do it at SEO 2.0!

Too excited to say anything except for a humungous

Thank You

to Tad

While wandering the Web recently, I came across an entry on the SEMPO FAQ page about how SEMPO came to be.  According to the FAQ, SEMPO was officially founded at its inaugural meeting at SES San Jose, August 2003. 

But then, I want to know what happened unofficially.

I came across this gem in an archived WebMama journal (Feb 2003):

“What is SEMPO? Is it a fusion noodle restaurant? The name of a Japanese World War II consul general who helped to save Polish Jewish refugees? A French marine environment simulator? Well, yes, but it’s much more. It’s the first professional organization for search engine marketing professionals - Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization. SEMPO.” 

Barb goes on to talk about the creation and vision of SEMPO - interesting read.

Rob Garner’s take, Search in the City of Dallas, on Search Insider (Feb 2007)

“I also have a vivid recollection of Barbara Coll, CEO of WebMama.com, walking down the hallway of the Adam’s Mark in 2002 with a few other search engine optimizers to discuss the formation of a new association she called “SEMPO,” or the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization. So Coll and company hammered out the details for what has become the national group for SEM professionals.”

Intel co-founder, Gordon Moore says “It’s not the end of the road,” when it comes to Moore’s Law.

From the BBC Watch: (approx. 1 min 50 sec)

From the Intel Developers Forum 2007, take a look at the last ten years of silicon chips: (approx 4 min 30 secs):

Came across this interesting post by “some dude from Orlando” which lists the 100 oldest domain names.

Notable omission is microsoft.com, which wasn’t registered until 1991.  It wasn’t until 1995 that Microsoft acknowledged that the Internet was not just a passing fad, and scrapped the soon to be released “Microsoft Network”, its very own version of a private network much like CompuServe/AOL.

google.com was registed in 1997.

This is BRILLIANT.  Jonah and I tried it with a can of Sunkist  - and it works!!!

BTW - If you want to know the second law of thermodynamics…