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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!“Hello, my name is d4b8ba1042.” If the new crop [...]

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Talk about a Tipping Point.
According to 3pointD.com, there is a group of Amazonians in Second Life building a bridge between Amazon Web services and Second Life so you can go into Second Life and actually try things on there and buy them.
There are people who want to use Amazon as a platform to buy and [...]

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Jellyfish is launching Monday Jun 26. Interested to see what this is all about. Empowering the consumer by building a new ad model. Hmm, where have we heard this before?
Myspace is pretty ineffective.
Pitchfork’s favorite 100 music videos.
Claria Pop-Up Ads Will Cease July 1.

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Kevin Ballard wrote a super Ruby script to send OS X crash reports to NetNewsWire, or any other RSS reader that can run local scripts. Life all of a sudden gets a lot easier when you start using Ecto, NNW and Quicksilver.

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Flickr: idmashup idmashup06
Phil Windley: photos.
Yes Phil, it’s time to get your photos out of the silo and into Flickr.

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Jonathan Zittrain, Co-Founder, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, moderated a panel named “Code and Law: How Should and Might They Mix?” at IdentityMashup. Jonathan is probably the best moderator I’ve ever heard. Engaging, able to get speakers and the audience to sharpen their points and questions and funny to boot. I bet his greymatter [...]

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Podcasts are here. It has come to my attention that some people are tagging the event idmashup without the 06. Let’s be more consistent people.

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SocialPhysics is an open collaborative project sponsored by Parity Communications. The goal of SocialPhysics is to give people more control over their digital identities: their online identities, personal information and social relationships. The project, affiliated with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School
As part of the Social [...]

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Doc on point. I have to say I’ve come around a bit on the Attention vs. Intention Economy argument although not everyone is like Doc and knows exactly what they want. Sometimes I want a camera lense, but don’t know what kind, type features I’m initially looking for. This is why the “markets not marketing” [...]

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I was thinking so hard I forgot to take decent notes, kudos to Phil for clearly capturing the essence of the session.
Relationship of reputation to identity
Definition of reputation: reputation is a source of trust. Abstract entities.
1/2 of reputation papers are on p2p.
Phil windly: reputation is your story of me. everyone has right to tell their [...]

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