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!I love this simple example of an interface for [...]

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Bob Lefsetz has the answer. Everyone has their hand in the cookie jar. TicketMaster rebates, groan.

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I’m coming down off a one-hour radio interview after a fast 6 mile run, legs are burning and I’m listening to the Betahouse In Abscentia Mix. I was at the Betahouse one year anniversary party last Friday but it was early, before it got sardine-like. I had drinks with Stowe Boyd before heading to the [...]

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Dataportability Project - check it out, logo competition happening now.

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Today’s post centers around how difficult it is to customize blog templates.
I have built blogs for SixApart customers, and my person and business blogs are currently running on Wordpress, so I know a little about about how blog systems work.
Back in 2002, I would install plugins, tweak templates and spend hours getting my blog looking [...]

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Gmail is set up to harvest all incoming emails and add them to your Contact list by default. I found this out when I went into my Gmail Contacts and saw hundreds of malformed email addresses, including many entries for driving directions. Turns out Gmail turns this function on by default.
I just spent an entire [...]

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I’ve been getting a kick out of Muxtape, a simple way to create and share mp3 mixtapes.
Muxtape can run as a standalone Mac application built on Fluid.

Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite WebApps as a separate desktop application. Fluid gives any WebApp a home on your Mac OS X [...]

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I am surprised that there is not an established open format for data exchange between wikis. Over the past few months I’ve consolidated hundreds of Microsoft Word Documents into VoodooPad, a nice desktop wiki for Mac.
I had some data in MediaWiki on a server, which took me several hours to bring down locally, total PITA.
At [...]

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Founders Brunch is a great idea, is there something like this in Boston?

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One of the most popular posts on this blog was when I ranted about how craptastic Verizon Pix Place is. Now that I’m on AT&T with my iPhone, I have a new picture messaging service to complain about.
AT&T’s Viewmymessage.com is an abysmal excuse for a service. AT&T spends a million dollars to develop visual voicemail [...]

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