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!Om Malik has started WebWorkerDaily, a blog for the [...]

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Social networking sites like Myspace may have the lions share of the market, but new event-based sites like Boston’s HeyLetsGo are offering up the best features, search, social tools and best of all, don’t look it was designed by a clown on acid.
I’m surprised how easy it was for me to ditch Myspace for [...]

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Identity services provider Opinity (a client), has announced that you can now use both OpenID and Microsoft’s CardSpace at Opinity.
This means that if you have established an OpenID–for instance, through Verisign PIP or LiveJournal–you can use that OpenID to log in to Opinity and to control your personal profile. Also, if you have created [...]

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Boston has what I think is the first police blog in the country, or so I read.
BDPNews.com publishes almost-real time reports of what’s keeping the cops busy around town. Simultaneously fascinating and scary to see the daily stats. One thing they must add to the blog and RSS feeds are hyperlinks to the area in [...]

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Dabble has been around for a while. They have a new video, Digg into Dabble, showing how they scrape Digg.com and get at all the underlying data to do some stats analysis. Unix heads will love the pipes and filters Dabble replace a lot of time spent at the command line. I appreciated this quote [...]

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Some of these tips are super-useful, others are just neat.

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These two hilarious videos from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant (wrote and directed The Office), filmed for Microsoft’s UK employees, were removed by YouTube last week and reappeared on Google video. Very funny as are the outtakes at the end.
Via Whereismyjetpack.

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There is not much on this earth that makes me happier than Radiohead remixes.
Easy Star All-Stars are coming out with RadioDread and now DJ Gyngyvytus has released Skeet Spirit, Crunk versions of several Radiohead songs.
I’m not much of a crunk fan but Lucky [feat. Frankie Paul] on “Radiodread” (Easy Star All-Stars) is stellar.
Via BoingBoing.

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Dumblittleman writes up a scenario where in a few easy steps he would be able to rob a woman who has marked her Google calendar as public. This is scary-useful information.

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