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!All Things Considered did a piece on Passing Strange.
Passing [...]
Tags: passing strangeBesides being a distraction, Twitter is now full of spam and MLM.
I’ve been getting into yoga and meditation lately and find things like Twitter are the opposite of a centered, focused workday.
Guess following 500 people isn’t such a good idea after all. I do like what I’m seeing with the lifestream aggregators though, waiting to [...]
I don’t remember mine either. I have to look it up every time I want to use it on one of the five websites that actually let you login with it. I know, there are thousands, but I never come across them. Clickpass to the rescue.
They are an OpenID issuer first. But they are also [...]
Tags: clickpass - openid Goodbye to The Wire, best show on tv the past few years. I’m more upset than I expected to see it go. Watched it every Sunday night without fail for the entire series. Good news is that the creators are working on something new. I can’t want to see what they bring us.
David Simon [...]
1. “Bioethical” violations such as birth control
2. “Morally dubious” experiments such as stem cell research
3. Drug abuse
4. Polluting the environment
5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor
6. Excessive wealth
7. Creating poverty
Since when is excessive wealth a sin?
Via The Lede@NYT.com.
Thought you couldn’t read PDF’s on the iPhone? Thanks to the data:URI feature in Safari, converting PDF’s to URI’s to read in Safari on your iPhone is easy. Create a bookmark with the URI in Safari, sync with iTunes and you’re all set.
Tags: iphone - pdfThere’s a new type of Captcha in town. This is good news, as I am growing tired with the new sets of captcha images, its almost impossible to read the letters. Don’t get me started with audio captchas.
Here’s how hotcaptcha works, take people from HotorNot, place their images on a 3×3 grid and ask people [...]
Google’s Kevin Marks talked to CNET at the Future of Web Apps conference about the interaction between public performance and private interaction on Myspace:
One of the things that MySpace has that is interesting is that you can install applications both on your profile page and on your user page. So you can have applications that [...]
Tags: open socialReading about a guy who did a blindfold test between expensive Monster Audio Cables and coat hangers!
… an experiment on him and four other audio aficionados listening to a new CD from a new group blindfolded. Seven different songs were played, each time heard with the speaker hooked up to Monster Cables, and the other [...]
The world’s largest supercomputer, the Ranger platform at the University of Texas at Austin’s TACC (Texas Advanced Computer Center), is being used to simulate the creation of the universe. At 504 teraflops, Ranger’s capacity exceeds that of all other National Science Foundation granted supercomputing facilities combined.
Tags: grid computing - ranger