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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!It appears that despite denying the very existence of [...]

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Softwaredeveloper.com has put together a thorough feature story on developing hit Facebook applications. Looks very thorough.

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Off for a rainy wakeboarding weekend in NH. I will leave you with a great post by Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners about ad networks and targeted content sites.

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Going.com, an event-driven social networking site (I can’t stand the term hyperlocal), has raised $5 million in funding from General Catalyst and Highland Capital.
I wrote about Going, which was previously named Heyletsgo, last fall, when I had a chance to meet with the founding team. Congrats to Roy, Rebecca and the rest of the Going [...]

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Back from vacation. Relaxed and ready to get back to work.
Bruce Sterling as a geoblogger circa 2017 over at Wired. This is the kind of stuff I like to read when I’m trying to get into the clean air required for entrepreneurial thinking. Via BoingBoing.

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Last night I spent an hour shooting photos of downtown Boston from my roofdeck, then I headed over the Coworking loft party, which was celebrating their first 3 months in operation. Drinking beer on a deck and chatting with local entrepreneurs, developers and other web-heads is a nice way to end the week. Can anyone [...]

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Wish you could make textboxes larger in Firefox by simply dragging a corner of the box to make it larger? You can.

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I’ll get to my review of last night’s WebInno later on tonight.
From TechCrunch:
Facebook has launched a Silicon Valley VC fund Bay Partners has earmarked millions of dollars for investments in startups creating applications for Facebook. The new program, called AppFactory, will be officially launched on Tuesday.
If your app is popular on Facebook you’re going [...]

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When it comes to collaboratively-edited database of cross-linked data, Freebase is front of mind. Today I read about the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network. Is one less evil than the other?
Who will make it easier to add/extract the data?

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My man GPC does a scorecard about how he thinks the WebInno 13 presenters are going to do. I prefer to wait until afterwards, because I really have nothing to say about something like (Beacon Street Girls) until after I see the demo.
I did however have a great demo of Webkins over the weekend. I [...]

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