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 following the DataPortability conversation over at Google [...]

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Catch up on all things virtual with the Metaverse Roadmap, great resource for those of you into SecondLife.

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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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This YouTube video depicting live humans acting out common SecondLife Experiences is hilarious.

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I went to the Linden Labs SecondLife recruiting party in Boston a few weeks ago. Talk about a mind-blower. I ran into people that I worked on virtual environments with almost 15 years ago and made some new friends as well.
Speaking of SL, the new atmospheric rendering from WindLight is major coolness.
Even more SL: GregPC [...]

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Last night I hopped on my bike and headed over to Cambridge for the latest WebInnovators Group meeting. First timers may want to read my coverage of the previous Webinnovator event.
Funny how Michael Arrington at TechCrunch was simultaneously saying Silicon Valley could use a downturn right about now. That’s because he’s burnt out, surrounded by [...]

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Boston-based Vivox has announced it will provide SecondLife with integrated voice communication. Phil Wolf at SkypeJournal has a short clip of Vivox co-founder talking about the deal. I met Monty and CEO Rob Seaver last year when Vivox was contemplating offering voice chat services to dating sites.

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Sleek is a mini-client that connects to the Second Life main grid. It’s useful for situations where you want to be in-world, but don’t want to have the huge overhead of the graphics engine.
Currently, SLeek has the ability to send and receive chat, send and receive IMs, do people search, teleport, read inventory, write inventory [...]

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Miramare has some good mens stuff; Nylon Pinkney has her men’s store there, Toast and Elka offer some men’s items. There is a HUGE men’s store called Swell owned by Beryl Greenacre who makes some really great casual and kind of preppy men’s clothing that I really like.
Tour Guides in SecondLife
Why We Need an [...]

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First it was Grey Goo, now SecondLife creators Linden Labs are contending with with a new piece of software that makes it easy to copy in-game artifacts.

I’ve often wondered about the stuff people create in SL, from dance moves to body parts to music. Back in the day when I was building VRML models for [...]

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