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!James Cramer teaching us how to game the stock [...]

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Read/WriteWeb dares to mention Web 3.0, or the Semantic Web. Talk about deja vu. If you’re new to the term, this is a must-read article. Also check out Freebase and Yahoo! Pipes. Otherwise it’s a nice overview of web API’s, services, screen scraping and other components and building blocks, of the next phase of [...]

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When I was building ProfileDoctor in 2003, I would always pitch the service as a website for consumers and a web service for online dating sites. The idea being that if you stumbled across PD from Google or an article in the paper, you were greeted with a traditional website front end, with all the [...]

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I have yet to play with the Nintendo Wii but I like the idea that you can copy your Mii’s to your Mac and then publsh on various Mii sharing sites.  I’ve worked with several companies attempting to deliver persistent portable identities and it’s fun to see someone doing something that generally works and is [...]

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Boston-based Vivox has announced it will provide SecondLife with integrated voice communication. Phil Wolf at SkypeJournal has a short clip of Vivox co-founder talking about the deal. I met Monty and CEO Rob Seaver last year when Vivox was contemplating offering voice chat services to dating sites.

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Looks like the iPhone is taking over the company, at least for now. Great reviews of the new Apple TV at the WSJ.

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According to the New York Times, It turns out there are two web hosts sending out the majority of spam. While most would appreciate the use of tactical weaponry to eradicate the problem once and for all, it sounds like Microsoft researchers have identified the source. I wonder if they will add them to spam [...]

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Scott Carp at Publishing 2.0 talks about issues surrounding the current economics of online advertising. Several good offshoot conversations as well.

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Kim Cameron tells us that Christian Arnold has created a Visual Studio 2005 Toolbox for Windows Cardspace. The ToolBox provides an easy way to use Windows CardSpace in your ASP.NET 2.0 Web-Application to register and validate your users. It´s also possible to use the controls to receive a SAML token and get the decrypted values [...]

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Look at the CrunchBoard VC category , surely this can’t be right.

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