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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!Do you think the new Dell stores will look [...]

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Last week Aldo Castaneda was here to do a podcast on Digital Identity. After getting to know each other a bit the tape recorder went on and we started the discussion with the layers of the identity stack - authentication framework, data providers, aggregators and consumers. The topic evolved into the marketing aspects of Digital [...]

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Incredible things done with fiber optics in the New York Times (reg req’d). Light passing through fiber optic cable being split, reversing, going faster than the speed of light and so on.

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Tech Crunch says that eBay is banning Rapleaf, a reputation and feedback management startup that has partnered with Opinity. My pre-coffee thoughts on the subject.

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Shuttle, the Wordpress Administration Redesign Project, looks promising. It will be integrated in WP at some point in the future.

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The definitive agreement to combine the two companies in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $1.5 billion. The combined company will be named FiberTower Corporation.
First Ave up 25% to $12.04 on volume of 1.2 million shares.
Press Release.

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Skype has tossed down thw gauntlet. In an announcement today, the company announced that SkypeOut - the ability to call any landline or mobile number - is now available free through the end of the year to all U.S. and Canadian customers.

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Chris Anderson and Will Hearst spoke about the Long Tail last night as part of The Long Now Foundation’s seminar series. Stewart Brand wrote up this report.

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After messing around with several semi-functioning Feedburner plugins for Wordpress, I came across the aptly titled Feedburner Plugin 1.0 for WordPress. I’m still trying to figure out how to get the comment feed working but other than that install and you’re off. I wish more plug-ins were this simple.

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MySpace has soft-launched an instant-messaging client - MySpaceIM. How long until more people use MySpace IM than AOL, two weeks? This is a repeat of how Myspace video quickly overtook YouTube a few weeks ago.
Of course, MySpace IM is Windows only at the moment, supposedly based on MSN Messenger protocol.
Being able to IM your [...]

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