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!Mozilla, maker of Firefox, everyone’s favorite web browser (what, [...]

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ICANN on Friday voted 9-5 to deny an application from ICM Registry, which for the past several years has sought to be the registry for adult-content Web sites.
At first I thought, why not? If pr0n sites all end in xxx wouldn’t it be easier for parental filters and schools to block them? It would also [...]

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I was on the phone with a new acquaintance today, deeply immersed in our second finishing-each-others sentences discussion, when at some point the conversation skimmed over Boston-based Compete. Catching up on the Compete blog tonight, I came across this:
Today we announce that you can use Compete.com to measure a site’s Attention. Attention fuses engagement (measured [...]

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the 27B Stroke 6 blog at Wired says that Microsoft’s Vista, the OS is the first internet-age Windows release to omit an important vestige of networking history — Telnet, which turns 35 today. How appropriate that the entry was penned by Kevin Poulsen, a true hacker who’s “best-appreciated hack was a takeover of all [...]

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Jitendra Gupta and I have participated in an ongoing email and blog discussion about the tapping the unused power of comments to strengthen community, drive traffic and rank commenters to make it easier for readers to find quality blogs.
Today, Jitendra gave me a demo of his CommentPower Wordpress plugin, which I will be installing [...]

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My post on last week’s Boston WebInnovators group led to a mention in today’s Boston Herald. Unfortunately they got my blog url wrong but it’s still nice to get some local exposure. I agree with David Beisel, it’s not 1999 but things are looking up. See you at the next event, which is Tuesday May [...]

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Email This! will send your recipient the link, title, & highlighted text of the page you are viewing using GMail, Yahoo, and Stand-Alone Mail Clients like Outlook Express, Thunderbird, & More. Excellent add-in for Firefox, I’m using it many times a day.

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Tailrank has opened up their back-end API, Spinn3r.  Spinn3r is a web service that companies can use to index the blogosphere instead of having to write their own spider. Instead of spending months designing a scalable backend infrastructure and fighting spam you can just start using our spider tomorrow. Tailrank is indexing over one million [...]

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To be honest, I didn’t think I would be that impressed by the winners of the first YouTube Video Awards. Boy was I wrong. Smosh, Free Hugs and Kiwi were great shorts that I’d never seen before.

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Maintaining your permalink structure when moving between blog platforms is incredibly important. When I moved one of my blogs from Movable Type to Wordpress, I decided to get rid of day of the /day/ directory and the trailing .php suffix, which WP doesn’t use by default. In doing so, I wanted to make sure that [...]

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