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!Naval Ravikant, who in his past life co-founded Epinions [...]

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Web 2.0 Expo happened, here’s a handy link to the coverage. Now all it takes is a good idea and a small bag of money to sell your one-off Web 2.0 company to Google. Psst, make sure it has to do with MS Office.
Digg API is out. Now you can build apps based on the [...]

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The Best of YouTube in 2:37. I love these dense clips, saves me hours of viewing each month.

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Experian has bought Internem marketing intelligence company Hitwise for $240 million. Companies like Quantcast and Compete are starting to offer some of the intelligence that corporations currently pay Hitwise for. What will happen when companies realize they can get most of the data from a free service instead of that hefty $20,000 a year contract?
Via [...]

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Congratulations to the intrepid souls running the Boston Marathon in today’s windy, rainy 47 degree weather. I may walk over to the finish line later when the rain lets up (lazy!).

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One of my new favorite blogs is 10 Zen Monkeys. A recent post titled “What Happened to Virtual Reality” brought me back to a time in 1992 at a spiritual retreat where Jaron Lanier sat barefoot and cross-legged in front of us, speaking about a new technology and concept he called Virtual Reality. I went [...]

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I used Jajah for the last month to keep in touch with my girlfriend who while she was traveling in Australia. The service has worked as advertised, and I see no charges on my mobile bill besides local access costs. Great service, works as advertised.

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While researching Metaweb and Freebase, I came across Danny Hillis’s article in Edge. A continuation of an earlier piece he wrote in 2004 about advanced Internet-based learning tools.
Addendum to “Aristotle: The Knowledge Web” continues the discussion, with various smart minds weighing in on the topic of machine-based learning.
This is an incredible article, a clear [...]

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Brian Balfour recently emailed me via a mutual acquaintance I met at the last Boston WebInnovator event. Turns out Brian works for Zoominfo, a site I have used frequently to search for people and business information, especially for linking to from blog entries.
Brian wrote about the new version of Zoominfo on his blog, Social Degree.

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Blink 3D is a complete system for creating interactive, animated and chat enabled multi-user 3D Web environments easily and without the need for programming skills. Blink makes it easy for anyone to embed 3D environments into blogs and social networking pages.

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