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!According to the Silicon Valley’s version of the National [...]

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Single these days, I am updating my Match profile like it’s a blog. If they’re not getting with the program I’m going to do it my own way. Every woman that has emailed me said reading a frequently updated profile was more interesting than the usual stagnant “lovetotravelgosoxbudlite” male profiles.
Why do dating sites and social [...]

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It appears that despite denying the very existence of such a thing,  Valleywag has received a copy of the elusive Facebook advertising rate card (via Valleywag). Dated from February, the document includes pricing for advertising on the home page, groups and various CTR and CPM data.

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Softwaredeveloper.com has put together a thorough feature story on developing hit Facebook applications. Looks very thorough.

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I’ll get to my review of last night’s WebInno later on tonight.
From TechCrunch:
Facebook has launched a Silicon Valley VC fund Bay Partners has earmarked millions of dollars for investments in startups creating applications for Facebook. The new program, called AppFactory, will be officially launched on Tuesday.
If your app is popular on Facebook you’re going [...]

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Jeremiah Owyang on Web Strategy Predictions: Facebook, Identity, Social Networks.
Facebook will launch an Identity widget that I can embed on my blog. This allows only those who have registered to Facebook to leave a comment, many high profile blogs will do this, to avoid nasty anonymous comments, thus reducing the incident of Kathy Sierra type [...]

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