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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!New York Times has an article about my neighborhood. [...]

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Silicon Beat talks about the perceived similarities between the GoingOn network and PeopleAggregator. There are lots of similar projects in the pipeline, including the new Red Hat initiative and of course the new AOL service, AIM Pages.

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A month or so ago I talked to Fred Stutzman at ClaimID to get a better idea about what his new project was all about. The next day, Aldo was over doing a podcast here about identity. The week after that, Aldo interviewed Fred. Last week I met Fred in Person at the Identity Mashup. [...]

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Yahoo Messenger beta running on my Powerbook and news of early versions of Skype for Mac with video. A good day indeed.

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NY Times has an article about people in Tokyo using cell phones as guides. Point your phone at a building, and the phone retrieves information about it from the net and displays it. Geovector, a US company, is working on the location-based technology to bridge the link between cyberspace and meatspace.
Marc Rotenber, director of the [...]

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Mack Collier at Marketing Profs says he agrees with some of my comments on the Pinko Marketing Manifesto, and disagrees as well.
I am posting this because I think we may be creating a war that isn’t there, or at least it shouldn’t be. This isn’t a war with the ‘consumers’ over who has control [...]

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I wanted to respond to Tara Hunt’s Pinko Marketing manifesto as a way to further understand and address my perspective towards it’s tenants. Wiki or not, I didn’t want to edit over what’s up there at the moment.
1. Pinko Marketing is about the end of the Marketing Manager, Director and anyone else who thinks they [...]

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Yahoo, for one, although after spending time with Fred at ClaimID last week, I’m pretty confident that Micro/ClaimID will drive microformat adoption for identity aggregators and job boards.
Nice writeup about the differences between Structured Blogging and microformats here.
It’s because the Structured Blogging plugins are a TOOL that makes it really easy to create the [...]

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Fred at ClaimID has two blog posts which do a good job of explaining MicroIDs. Part 1 and Part 2.

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ClaimID is now officially Justouttabeta. Congrats to Fred and Terrell, who I got to meet at Identity Mashup last week.
It’s quite clear that microformats for claiming content are starting to come together, and ClaimID is smart to integrate with OpenID, MicroID and keeping an open mind towards working with other initiatives that strengthen and increase [...]

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