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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!Seems several of my sidebar modules have been blown [...]

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Matt Cutts found the best business card ever.

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I’ve been waiting for a few Greasemonkey scripts to tweak my Facebook pages. Mashable to the rescue. Pretty limited list of customizations, need Greasemonkey and a few other scripts, but now I have a new look for all my pages and the ads in the left sidebar are gone. Nice.

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Laughing Squid Laughing Squid will be hosting a pre-ROFLCon Drinkup from 7pm-11pm on Thursday, April 24th at The Asgard Irish Pub & Restaurant in Cambridge, near the MIT campus. ROFLCon is a conference organized through Harvard that explores popular internet memes and takes place April 25th & 26th at MIT in Cambridge, MA. ROFLCon looks [...]

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Wordpress 2.5 preview is in the house.

A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times sound interesting? Then WordPress 2.5 might be the release for you. It’s been in the oven for a while, and we’re finally ready to open the doors a [...]

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Update: Figured it out.
#navigator{z-index:20;position:relative;margin:0px 1px 0px 0px;padding:9px 0px 4px 0px;height:2em;background:url(/images/navigator_bg.gif) no-repeat left bottom;line-height:2em;}
Chang height to 3.9 em from 2 em.
#widebar{width:649px;float:left;}
Change width to 630.
For quite some time Facebook’s layout has been a bit off. The main body of the page extends to the right past the edge of the top blue header and up into the [...]

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I’m back using Twitter again. What a colossal distraction when set to update every 10 minutes. Forget continuous partial attention partial attention, I need to set it to d/l tweets ever 30 minutes.
Most annoying Twitter trend - people who insist on telling me that they are in an airport, or just landed, or just taking [...]

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Not exactly safe for work, but this lava-lamp and binge-powered pitch meeting at a game company circa 1979 is pretty darn prescient.

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ReadWriteWeb has several cool videos of giant touchscreens, shadow-based pointers and several other fascinating emerging user interface paradigms.

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This demonstration of voiceless communication blew me away. Pretty soon we won’t have to listen to inconsiderate cell phone users, hooray!

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