Microsoft Live Labs Listas Technology Preview

Microsoft Live Labs have recently released their latest technology preview, Microsoft Live Labs Listas, a web-based application tool for the creation, management and sharing of lists, notes, favorites, and other such stuff. Listas provides you with a WYSIWYG which allows you to quickly and easily create/edit lists and share them with others for read or write – in sense a bit like a wiki. Listas reminds a little of cl1p.net – the internet clipboard.

Listas also features a Listas Community Section, in which you can find a number of highlights of the most popular and random items from around the community of public lists such as the most used tags, the hottest lists, and prolific contributors. Within the Listas Community you can also add other users lists or RSS feeds to your own Listas as well as adding users as freinds so you can quickly find them again.

Now the question is where could Listas progress to – could some kind of Windows Live Spaces intergration be the key?

Comments

  • pikablu0530

    darren just like to say that this is the most unoriginal post on LiveSide. It seems like the whole article is copy and pasted from the Microsoft Live Labs website. I always loved LiveSide’s original posts and how they expresses their own opinions….

    Also would like to point out that Listas was not released “today” (Oct 20)…it was actually released a few days back

  • Darren Straight

    My apologies on this – I copied the info from the site and started doing some editing and thinking of what I could say about this service but while in a haste to get out the door (To drop of family at the airport) I must have clicked without meaning to the publish button – only just came back from the airport now. Of course it’s too late now too undo this!

  • Mephiles

    Oh well.

    Personally, I don’t like the technology. It seems like something off Windows Live Spaces.

  • quikboy

    There’s nothing really that interesting.

    It’s just a list-making tool.

    It makes sense more as a Sidebar/Spaces gadget than anything.

    Or have it’s own site to easily make and look-up list.

    But why call it “Listas”?

  • tophtucker

    I like the name. It’s unique, descriptive, and a little goofy. As for the product itself, it sounds like something that could be worked into a revamped Windows Live Favorites, which would be much appreciated.

    Of course, there are flaws with it as it stands now. For instance, I can’t even figure out how to rename a list!

  • Darren Straight

    Hi tophtucker,

    To edit the List Title go to My Lists > Find the List you which to rename and click it > now above all the text and styling buttons you will see the list title (possibly “New List (click to edit)” > Double click it to edit/rename! :)

    If you create a New List it seems the default list name “New List (click to edit)” can be changed as it says with a click to edit but once it’s created you need to double click to edit.

  • tophtucker

    Oh wow… that’s pretty obvious… haha.

    I tried single-clicking it, but not double-clicking. Silly me.

    Still, maybe there should be a more explicit link. Right-click functionality a la Hotmail would also be nice.

  • sidhu29

    i like this but i have one question why there is another toolbar for that? can we not integrate this with live toolbar?

  • ScottIsAFool

    @sidhu29: What kind of integration? What would you want to see?

  • Thomas-Tram

    Listas has the potential of beeing a great tool, I think. Especially if you could create a list, refine it and then publish it on Spaces. Or even export a list to IE’s bookmark list.

    I have often looked for the great tool for collecting todays list of links to be read, when going through all the newsletters and feeds I subscribe to. With Listas this is possible. Or kind of, since it is only integrated in IE and only available for cut ‘n paste action from other app’s, like Outlook. In it’s present form this makes the idea more gadget material than a Live service.

    On my computer IE crashes every time I tried to use the Define Clippings function. Further I’m not able to make selections from Hotmail-messages. Is this a general problem?

    Thomas