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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!Don’t miss this surface computing video from Microsoft. Your [...]

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At this week’s Webinnovators event (review) I particularly enjoyed the  DNSstuff.com demonstration. Following up on a question I posed during the demo, I spent some time at OpenDNS.com yesterday. While perusing the blog, I came across a post titled Google turns the page… in a bad way, which proved disturbing on a number of fronts.
David [...]

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I have mixed emotions about Google snapping up Feedburner, the RSS feed management service I’ve been a paying member of since day one. A nice exit for people like Brad Feld but I hope Google doesn’t do something like close down new signups like they did with JotSpot, which has been closed  to new signups [...]

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Last night I hopped on my bike and headed over to Cambridge for the latest WebInnovators Group meeting. First timers may want to read my coverage of the previous Webinnovator event.
Funny how Michael Arrington at TechCrunch was simultaneously saying Silicon Valley could use a downturn right about now. That’s because he’s burnt out, surrounded by [...]

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List of demonstrators is at the Webinno blog.

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Bruce Sterling in MIT Technology review video (5:31) talking about hostile design. The parts about Google-designed payphones and the relationship between houseplants and particle accelerators are classic Sterling.

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Bruce Eckel has written a tremendous article about what a mess the web has become. He mentions Java, rich internet applications, Flex, CSS, Flash other technologies used to build internet-based apps and how their collective shortcomings affect web development and user experience.
It’s amazing to read that certain key aspects of Java were pushed out the [...]

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Skype just quit on me and led me to download a new version. Strange that the new version is required to continue use of Skype. I wonder why they are so adamant about the upgrade? Security issue, new feature, better audio/video codecs?

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If you haven’t checked it out yet, Google Analytics has undergone a major renovation. Simply put, it’s brilliant. Read the Google Analytics Evalgelist blog and take the Analytics tour.The new UI looks great, Google did a good job intergrating the MeasureMap code ever since Google purchased Measure Map from Adaptive Path.

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DJ’s toting iPods and Powerbooks are so 2001. This augmented reality DJ demo on youTube is hot! Built by the Music Technology Group at Pompeu Fabra University using reactable.

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