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’ve been waiting for a few Greasemonkey scripts to [...]

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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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O’Reilly Research reports that:
87% of the usage goes to only 84 applications! Only 45 applications have more than 100,000 active users. This is a long tail marketplace with a vengeance — but unfortunately, the economic models (for developers at least, though not for Facebook itself) all rely on getting into the very short head.

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Facebook is displaying ads for products that appear to be endorsed by actual users. When I clicked on the person’s name, I was directed to the ad, not the person’s profile. I don’t like being tricked like this, not one bit. But I did click.

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Cisco Entertainment Operating System
Very relevant to distribution of entertainment content. Linksys in 50% of U.S. homes. Half the set-top boxes are from Scientific Atlanta. Ability to connect with flat-screen TVs. But how do users discover information? I see ability to bring together discovery and the network.
Microsoft Popfly:
Popfly is the fun and easy way to build [...]

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Google Facebook clone
Google does Second Life
Not a clone, but Google is going to roll out an advertising platform that puts a crowdsourcing twist on ad targeting.

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Facebook announced at TechCrunch40  that the company will be launching a new entity called fbFund with Accel and Founders Fund.The size of the fund will be $10 million (coming from Accel and Founders Fund) with anywhere between $25 to $250 thousand in grants available for each selected startup dedicated to developing Facebook applications. Founders Fund [...]

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I read about Salil Deshpande Bay Partners AppFactory  fund in a recent Business 2.0 (RIP).
When I asked Salil for more details, he pointed me at the AppFactory page, which explains the program.
The AppFactory provides funding, technical and business resources to help entrepreneurs identify, build, and monetize the next generation of applications. Since AppFactory investments are really [...]

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I came across a Facebook development shop in Boston called Facebook Factory that says they can create simple Facebook applications in five days. They were nice enough to create an application thats displays the RSS feed for my blog, thanks guys! Go ahead, add TheProgressBar as a Facebook Application.

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Nice Facebook reality check at Venture Beat.

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