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Entries from January 2008

January 30th is International Delete Your MySpace Account Day

January 22nd, 2008 ·

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!Mark your calendar’s, Wednesday, June 30 is International Delete [...]

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WebInno16 Demo Companies

January 18th, 2008 ·

It’s that time again.
We a€™re a little over a week away from the first Web Innovators Group meeting of 2008 on Tuesday January 29thstarting at 6:30pm. We have another solid lineup of startups demo’ing at the event… the main presentations to the entire crowd will start at 7pm, thirty minutes after we open the Grand [...]

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Yahoo Implements OpenID

January 17th, 2008 ·

This is great news. I met most of the OpenID leaders at the Identity Conference at Harvard. While there are a number of usability and safety issues to address, the adoption rate for OpenID is taking off, slowly but surely. What is it up to now, 100+ million people? Problem is, most people don’t know [...]

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Bye-Bye NetNewsWire, Hello Google Reader

January 11th, 2008 ·

Continuing my workflow optimization, I’ve dumped NetNewsWire for Google Reader. NNW is a great app that I’ve used since day one, but since reading Steve Rubel’s post Become a Knowledge Management Ninja with Google Reader, I decided to take the plunge. I’ll report back my experience with Google Reader, send in those tips and tricks [...]

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Trying New GTD Applications

January 11th, 2008 ·

I’ve been spending time with Omnifocus and Things, trying to pick the GTD app that works best for me. Today I found out about Midnight Desktop, which is like Mail.app on steroids, and lets you store files along with email. All three applications are a bit rough around the edges, hopefully by the summer they [...]

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Belkin Podcast Studio

January 9th, 2008 ·

Been a bit slow around here, will be posting more now that the holiday’s are past. Check out the Belkin Podcast Studio over at CrunchGear. Looks like a real winner for those of us who are constantly looking for the optimum podcast production environment.

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