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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!The Electric Sheep just landed $7 million in funding [...]

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I’ve been using Open DNS for a few weeks and see a definite increase in reaching websites. Nothing however can help speed uppage loads in Firefox on my Powerbook. After using a new MacBookPro, my loaded PB feels sluggish.

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Upgraded to 2.1. Ability to subscribe TheProgressBar RSS feed and Comment Feed fixed.

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This is excellent, in an annoying kind of way. MP3 tunes for your car horn from Horntones.com.

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A few summers ago I headed up to sunny Portsmouth, NH to met Chris Brooks, founder of Talkr. Talkr turns blog posts into MP3 audio files, so you can listen on your iPod. I used the service for a while, but soon found that not many people were using the feature. Other blogs have had [...]

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Illegal but this is what happens when programmers don’t catch exceptions well.

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Took me a while to figure out why Ecto wasn’t downloading posts. turns out Wordpress 2.1 has a bug. Fix via NSLog();

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Lot’s of startup hype about Habari. Me no download for a while, too much fun/work/time invested in WP 2.1

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I’ve upgraded just about everything on the blog today. Wordpress 2.1, TerrraFirma theme and found several new versions of plugins. Ability to subscribe TheProgressBar RSS feed and Comment Feed fixed. Tags showing up at bottom of posts, the tag search page is having problems with multi-word tags joined by the “€œ+â€?€Â? sign. Somehow I [...]

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This is scary. Hitachi has created RFID chips that are 0.05 x 0.05mm. Reminds me of various Bruce Sterling, William Gibson and Neil Stevenson stories.

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