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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!I love HeyLetsgo, event-based social networking which launched here [...]

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I’ve been checking out Yahoo Pipes and came across this noindex feature for Pipes in Feedburner. They got that up pretty fast. Pipes are going to be amazing once the documentation is up and the expand the core set, right now it’s pretty clunky if you’re not versed in unix pipes. I don’t understand [...]

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This is great news. I’ve been impatiently waiting for sample code for Movable Type and Wordpress that works with Cardspace, maybe this will speed things up a bit.
Microsoft to Work With the OpenID Community, Collaborating With Sxip, JanRain, and VeriSign
Sxip, JanRain, Microsoft, and VeriSign will collaborate on interoperability between OpenID and Windows CardSpace to make [...]

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Frustration: Using custom Styles in MS Word for Mac.
(Hint, this tip is for Office 2004. May work in Office X but YMMV.)
Templates all over the OS, from the Applications folder to Microsoft User Directories and sub-durectories.
After reading scores of outdated docs (Office X?), I finally found something that works. Not the most elegant solution but [...]

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Soldiers take aim on HP customer service.

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I’m enjoying reading the stories about Apple at Lowendmac.
The history section is appropriately called the Orchard.
Check them out if you’re interested, great behind-the-scene insights into what Apple went through to get where it is today.

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I love BoingBoing, it’s been in my bookmark bar for years. This week I’ve been reading Mark Frauenfelder’s ignorant posting about how the Boston police mis-manged their reaction to the recent bomb hoax.
I’m speaking from fear here, after the adrenaline has subsided.
I’m so angry at Turner, and that’s not going away any time soon.
Mark is [...]

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