The Progress Bar

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!My cousin Laran has a blog which I stumbled [...]

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Download it and try out the new video calling feature. I’m relaxedguy on Skype if you want to test the video.

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VC and the Attention economy
Interoperability, Open Identity and Identity Brokers
Kim Cameron’s Infocard Tutorial
Root Vaults announces new Data Exchanging Features and Public Display of Attention (PDA).
Scoble on David Berlind and Doc on Intention.

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For Sale: PC2700S 512MB DDR RAM good for many Powerbook styles.
$60.00 OBO.

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Cori at Attention Trust has been testing a mildly updated ATX extension that’s compatible with Firefox 2.0 beta 1 for the last few days. If any of you have jumped on the 2.0 beta bandwagon and want to test-drive the Attention Recorder, you can get the updated download at http://attentiontrust.org/download/attention_0.65b.xpi.

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A family friend who is the copy editor for the Foreign Desk at the New York Times was featured in Pursue the Passion. When you read about Iraq or Israel, his eyes are the last to see every story before they get shipped off to production. Truly a gifted and passionate individual as any I [...]

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Clicking around Yahoo! Research I came across Mindset, which has been around for a while but caught my eye when I was searching for intention-based search.
Mindset is an early demonstration of our ongoing machine learning research applied to the problem of web search. We trained an automated text classifier which determines whether any given web [...]

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The Tech Buzz Game is a fantasy prediction market for high-tech products, concepts, and trends from Yahoo! Research. It’s addictive to buy and sell shares in Open Source tools, API categories ad services and of course the browser wars. Requires you to log in every few hours to tweak your holdings if you want to [...]

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I finally got around to watching Douglas Rushkoff narrate The Merchants of Cool (2001). Somewhat dated yet insightful look into teen marketing. Still shocking to see the reality of teen culture and it’s relationship with handful of multinational corporations.
I followed up with The Persuaders (2004), another Rushkoff/PBS production. General premise is the more adverting we [...]

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