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!Ever since I had custom business cards printed up [...]

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The BostonWebInnovators (website, blog, wiki) event continues to impress. Last night’s event was held in a larger hall, approximately 250 entrepreneurs, VC, developers and media were in attendance. It was great to see so many startups and their support ecosystem in one place. The room exuded a heady, pre-bubble vibe, which no doubt raised eyebrows [...]

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Goodbye just in time manufacturing, hello SpaceNet, a software tool for modeling interplanetary supply chains from MIT.

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I’m looking forward to seeing who shows up to tonights gtg with Michael Raynor, author of the Strategy Paradox.  One participant on the wiki runs a blog called Aurgasm, which I have been listening to all afternoon. Great music. Seems like a broad spectrum of people will be attending tonight.
68-PM, Vintage Lounge, 72 Broad Street, [...]

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PaidContent says Internet ratings company Quantcast has secured $5.7 million in its first financing round. I am excited to hear this. I am tired of hearing about Alexa’s shortcoming’s as I am Twitter. I like the Quantcast stats pages, lots of useful information. Investors include The Founders Fund and Revolution Capital. The company is headed [...]

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Creating Passionate Users is talking about building an online community. One particular point bothered me: getting people involved sooner by having them answer questions as son as they pass newbie stage instead of waiting until they are experts. There are billions of bad answers out there, clogging up forums all over the net. Someone has [...]

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Adam Carstens from the Attention Company emailed from Tokyo to share recent research done by the company.  They surveyed a group of managers and found their attention profiles varied greatly depending on the type of media involved. These attention maps make it easy to discover, measure and analyze where attention is being focused. I signed [...]

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A story titled “The Year Without Toilet Paper” in the NY Times caught my eye this morning. When the page loaded, I saw something quite remarkable, or so I thought I did.
The banner and skyscraper ads surrounding the article seemed to be matched to the greenish glow cast by lighting in the article’s primary photo. [...]

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Twitter went down for a while this morning. Love the maintenance message.

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Michael Raynor, author of “The Strategy Paradox and “The Innovator’s Solution, will be doing a meetup in Boston next week. Hit the wiki to sign up.

Tuesday, March 27
6 - 8 pm
Vintage Lounge, 72 Broad Street in Boston

I need to find an event microformat plugin for Wordpress.

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