The Progress Bar

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Entries from December 2005

The Chronic of Narnia

December 28th, 2005 ·

The Progress Bar read by people interested in emerging Internet marketing, technology, social media, reputation, virtual environments, blogs, the Boston Internet scene and much more. If you like what you see you should subscribe to my RSS feed or via email in the sidebar. Thanks for visiting!

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sheer brilliance from the brazilian magician

December 27th, 2005 ·

Amazing video of a Brazilian soccer star.

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Why Web 2.0 has jumped the shark

December 20th, 2005 ·

Richard MacManus at Read/WriteWeb is done calling it web2.0. Good for him. Glad to see the hype dying down a bit. The whole web 2.0 moniker was kind of embarrassing and besides about 500 people, nobody knew what we were talking about. I’m always surprised at while we passed the 1 billion internet user mark [...]

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Tiger Causing WiFi Problems?

December 17th, 2005 ·

Answers for intermittent wifi signal droppage on Tiger.

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Punk Portraits

December 15th, 2005 ·

Flickr photos of classic punks. Clash, The Jam, Sex Pistols, great stuff.

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Other Music Year End Year End Recap

December 15th, 2005 ·

Other Music is a great music store in New York City. The end of year recap is a yearly read for me.

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chemistry.com

December 14th, 2005 ·

A while back I signed up for Chemistry.com. Because it was a geographicaly-limited beta, I had to use a zip code that would let me appear as if I lived in Denver.

Today, I received An Exclusive Offer for Current Match.com Subscribers to reserve a free lifetime charter membership to Chemistry. The caveat being that “As [...]

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Feedburner FeedFlare

December 14th, 2005 ·

Feedburner, the service that manages my RSS feeds, continues to roll out new services. The latest is FeedFlare. If all goes according to plan, subscribers to my blog will see enhanced meta-data (information about that individual post) at the bottom of each entry in their RSS newsreader.

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Bathroom rsstroom reader

December 13th, 2005 ·

This is funny. An RSS reader for the bathroom.

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Building a podcast setup

December 12th, 2005 ·

My evening has been spent researching headphones and microphones so I can do some serious podcasting. Getting up to speed on headphones was overwhelming, until I found HeadRoom and this headphone review at Ars Technica. After looking at countless review sites, I’ve come to realize that I don’t trust CNET reviews at all. Not a [...]

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