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!According to Carolyn Johnson at the Boston Globe, the [...]

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Marc Andreessen’s blog continues to impress. He has proved that being late to the party is not necessarily a bad thing.
I am constantly asking people if their startup is a web app, service or syndicated content. The days of saying “visit my website” are waning.
Marc goes deep into web platforms. Required reading as we all [...]

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The home design web apps market is getting crowded. At Webinno and other local events  I’ve seen 3 or so competing products, including MyDesignIn DesignMyRoom and My Virtual Home and today I heard about yet another. Is there a review site for home design sites yet?

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I am definitely going to Blogtoberfest next Month. Last year we had a great time until I was confronted by a crazy man brandishing a meat cleaver later on in the evening. Sometimes it’s best to go straight home after a party.
Thursday October 25, 2007
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
(last time we stayed until 10, [...]

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My favorite social bookmarking tool turned four last week, happy birthday Delicious!

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Facebook applications are currently able to retrieve profile data at the click of a button.  The ability to re-use information is an initial step towards open profiles. Logical progression: changes made to data in applications are propagated back into Facebook. This is called bi-directional propogation. Soon enough, a FOAF application will show up in the [...]

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This month’s most overused meme is “social graphs.” We’ve been talking about this for years and suddenly it’s all the rage, probably because you can only get so excited about videosharing sites and all the smart people are back from Burning Man.
Johannes Ernst says that Six Apart, creators of Movable Type, are set to release [...]

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 I came across Xconomy this week.
Xconomy is dedicated to providing business and technology leaders with timely, insightful, close-to-the-scene information about the local personalities, companies, and technological trends that best exemplify today’s high-tech economy.
The first thing I read was about Conduit Labs. I will be following them very closely.
Xconomy brought back memories of when I blogged [...]

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Facebook announced at TechCrunch40  that the company will be launching a new entity called fbFund with Accel and Founders Fund.The size of the fund will be $10 million (coming from Accel and Founders Fund) with anywhere between $25 to $250 thousand in grants available for each selected startup dedicated to developing Facebook applications. Founders Fund [...]

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Rapleaf Updates reputation widgets (login required).
Technorati introduces Topics. The hunt for a revenue stream continues. There are at least three people pitching better blog categorization last night.
Another reason to buy an iPhone, Edit your Movable Type blog from your iPhone.

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