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!Supposedly an interview with someone who worked at Microsoft [...]

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Before you rush out and buy an iPhone tomorrow, think about  the MacBookPro launch. Bad screens, fans, batteries and don’t forget the problems with the motherboard. Owning version 1.0 of any electronic product is a dicey proposition.
Apple just increased the battery life and went from a plastic to a glass screen. Think about that.
If you [...]

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This YouTube video depicting live humans acting out common SecondLife Experiences is hilarious.

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Jeremiah Owyang on Web Strategy Predictions: Facebook, Identity, Social Networks.
Facebook will launch an Identity widget that I can embed on my blog. This allows only those who have registered to Facebook to leave a comment, many high profile blogs will do this, to avoid nasty anonymous comments, thus reducing the incident of Kathy Sierra type [...]

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Some of you may or may not know that my other blog is Online Dating Insider. When I started blogging in 2002 I was working on some dating and social networking business ideas and decided that writing about the “discovery” industry would be a good place to start. Here I am almost five years later, [...]

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I just added about 10 very cool links to a draft post in Wordpress and deleted it by mistake. Where is the undo feature? It’s times like this that I miss Movable Type and Ecto.
You would probably like the flexible OLED screens. As for the rest, you probably knew about Compete’s new API and most [...]

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I went to the Linden Labs SecondLife recruiting party in Boston a few weeks ago. Talk about a mind-blower. I ran into people that I worked on virtual environments with almost 15 years ago and made some new friends as well.
Speaking of SL, the new atmospheric rendering from WindLight is major coolness.
Even more SL: GregPC [...]

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This is why Not many people are in Second Life. I have all the respect for the Linden folks, but this is ridiculous. Talk about user-unfriendly.
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We are initiating a rolling restart of sims to address issues that arose yesterday, as indicated in a previous blog post. These include slow logins, slow or failed group chat [...]

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 John Heilemann has written about Steve Jobs in New York Magazine.  Regarding his “fourth act”, the iPhone:
Apple’s competitors, by contrast, find the prospect of the iPhone terrifying. “The entire fucking Western world hopes that it’s a case of imperial overstretch,� says the CEO of one of the planet’s largest communications companies. “But everybody is quietly [...]

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From David Beisel:
Our May WebInno event continued the emerging tradition of drawing an exciting crowd of techies, entrepreneurs, investors, and operators. You can read more about it in a recap blog post. Given all of the season’s various activities, we’re holding one - and only one - special Web Innovators Group this summer:
Boston Web Innovators [...]

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