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!Easy to install plugin enables peeking into zipped files [...]

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I am constantly amazed that more website are not using drag and drop capabilities of Scriptalicious or other Javascript libraries to enhance the user experience. Panic Software has a nice drag-n-drop downloader that’s simple and fun. I’ve been spending more time with Adobe Air applications which promise to bring the desktop to the web, or [...]

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Rapleaf continues to add features and gain traction after seemingly beating out several other reputation tracking systems. What services do you use to track your reputation?

Thousands of sites are building address book importers so their users can find or invite their friends – the problem is that you have to buy the code to do [...]

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Last nights TechCrunch party was a blast, ran into people I knew 12 years ago, several clients and I got to finally meet Michael Arrington. Various people took photos and a good time was had by all. I walked over to the after-party with a guy who drove all the way from from Virginia, that’s [...]

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This guy called Verizon reps 56 times, asking them the same two questions each time. Overall, Verizon reps misquoted rates 93% of the time.

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Tehcrunch is throwing a party for 700 people in Boston tonight. Judging from previous parties, this one should not disappoint. My liver is shuddering at the thought of hitting the after party.

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Twitterific is terrific, but I couldn’t figure out how to send direct tweets. Turns out Control-D does the trick. they really should connect Twitter to IM networks for longer discussions. Twitter is fun but it’s rapidly approaching it’s max usefulness with such a limited set of functionality. I grok that simplicity in design and functionality [...]

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I stopped using Ecto, my favorite offline blog editor, a while back because it ate a number of draft messages and tag support with Ultimate Tag Warrior was always broken.
I went back to the Rich text editor in Wordpress, which I can’t stand for a number of reasons: it’s slow, unresponsive, doesn’t preserve text between [...]

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Vivox, boston-area leading provider of integrated voice services for online games and virtual worlds has announced that it has secured $7.8 million in a second round of equity financing led by Benchmark Capital. Proceeds from the round will fund product development, sales support and marketing. You may have seen the Vivox phones around SecondLife or [...]

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Last week’s Webinno was as usual a great event. Nothing comes close in terms of local net-heads cramming into one room to imbibe, rant, demo and press the flesh. Founder David Beisel is setting up anther small group dinner, this one is titled “The Secrets of Social Network Platform Apps”.
I just sent David a list [...]

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