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!The next Webinno is Monday September 10th. Event begins [...]

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I’ve been a proponent of user-centric profiles for a long time. Portable profiles stored in transparent database clouds which bi-directionally receive and propogate changes to user-managed profiles are going to be a major feature of the next version of the web.
ProfileBuilder is the latest startup to get into the centralized profile game, launching a few [...]

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Buzzword of the week, social graph.
Web 2.0 what went wrong?
Facebook Defines New App Ranking System.
Social networking comes to Google Earth.
Tagging disillusionment.

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Mark Cuban throws out one of his periodic flamethrower blog comments. This time the Internet is dead and boring.
A lot of people are all up and upset about my comments that the Internet is dead and boring. Well guess what, it is. Every new technological, mechanical or intellectual breakthrough has its day, days, months and [...]

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Scoble does a good interview with Marc Canter. There are bits about his People Aggregator, social graphs (terrible phrase!) single sign-on, universal profiles, FOAF, the identity stack and much more. Conversational in tone with lots of stories and subtle jabs at certain net gods, it’s good for a run on your iPod.

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Nice Facebook reality check at Venture Beat.

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Boston’s Web Innovators Group continues to mature although I keep running into smart connected people that don’t know what Webinno is, so here’s a recap from the blog.
The Web Innovators Group (WebInno) is comprised of people engaged in internet and mobile innovation in the Boston area. We aim to support entrepreneurs, visionaries, and creative thinkers [...]

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According to the Silicon Valley’s version of the National Enquirer,  two enterprising post-college grads have created a mashup which displays your out-of-control Myspace spasm in the spare, blue-and-white layout we call Facebook. And they call it, wait for it…. SpaceLift. Looks broken at the moment, won’t import my Myspace profile, must be getting hammered on.
This [...]

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Last year’s breakout UK geek tv show, The IT Crowd, is back with season two. The first episode felt different from most of last year. Grab the Torrents of season one for some basement-dwelling IT department humor with a British twist.

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Flowcharts for deciding if something is f*cked up have existed in various forms for many years. Here’s a few variations via BoingBoing.

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