Announcing Start.com
The cat is out of the bag. We have been working on a new personalized start page. We are essentially playing around with a number of different ideas trying to figure out which way to go. You can find this page at https://start.com/1/ or https://start.com/2/. Both Dave Winer and Scoble have linked to it. So I guess it is time for us to open it up for comments.
The idea behind these pages is to let you add what you want to your pages. We will also enable you to add bookmarks, your favorite searches, RSS and other modules.
What do you think of these pages? Which one do you like better?
Remember, these are prototypes and are not built to take heavy loads.
Comments
Anonymous
March 10, 2005
Definitely like version 1 better - integration between RSS and search is the way to go.
Bookmarks are kind of old-fashioned now, I hardly use them anymore.Anonymous
March 10, 2005
start.com/1/ seems really cool. I really like the idea of clicking on a page's link to first see it's RSS headlines, then those links are the details, then you can dig deeper if you want.Anonymous
March 10, 2005
If I just read "We hear you: Firefox support is coming soon!" and saw Google as a "Useful site" on a Microsoft website...then my respect for them just went through the roof! It says (c) Microsoft...but I donno. That would be awesome though.Anonymous
March 10, 2005
<p>SiliconBeat point to a sandbox version of a working web-based RSS Aggregator - from Microsoft!</p>Anonymous
March 10, 2005
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March 10, 2005
Microsoft's MSN division has a working version of a Web-based RSS aggregator online. It appears to be part of MSN's "sandbox,'' where it tests new technologies, though it was not linked off that page as of this posting. A disclaimer at the bottom of the aggregator Web page says: "This site is not an officially supported site. It is an incubation experiment and doesn't represent any particular strategy or policy.'' Note: It seems to work best (only?) on Windows IE. You won't see much if you view it in Firefox. UPDATE: Inside Microsoft finds MSN's Furl-like bookmarking Web site, also being tested. Note the interesting way MSN is apparently using APIs to allow you to search some of the bookmarked sites, such as Google and Amazon. UPDATE2: The "official" announcement is here....Anonymous
March 11, 2005
Webes hírolvasót és testreszabható kezdőoldalt fejleszt a MicrosoftAnonymous
March 12, 2005
I also like V1 better.Anonymous
March 12, 2005
[via ReadWriteWeb] - (@SiliconBeat) ũμƮ MSN division ۾ RSS aggregator. MSN sandbox Ϻΰ Ǵ , MyYahoo ̱ ϰ, ο MSN ˻ ɰ ϰ յǾ ִٴ Ư¡ ֳ. ۿ MSN Furl Ʈ ϸŷ...Anonymous
March 15, 2005
I like the "2" page's color scheme better. Make sure that users can also save a copy to their HDs and launch from their own systems. THAT would be cool!Anonymous
March 15, 2005
I agree with David, Firefox & Google links on a Microsoft page, i have a lot more respect for them now too.
start.com review at bloggeditnews.blogspot.comAnonymous
March 15, 2005
I prefer version 1 too.Anonymous
March 15, 2005
Oh great, another site that doesn't work right with Opera.
What ever happened to plain HTML?Anonymous
March 16, 2005
may i access to it in French
tank youAnonymous
March 16, 2005
We are working on the English version of the page only right now.Anonymous
March 29, 2005
Reading some email threads today, I saw mention of a domain I had never heard of before: start.comSure...Anonymous
October 30, 2006
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