Bill Reid - Introducing the Shared Computer Toolkit

Great stuff... I like start.com because of its simplistic design and compatibility with Firefox. I'd love to see more MSN sites done in a similar fashion as well as better integration among all these great new MSN services.
Minh - we don't have feed read/unread support yet.
also, it's a bit misleading to refer to start as an rss aggregator, which presets some expectations such as the aforementioned.
we alluded to this in the interview, by describing start as:
bloglines meet my yahoo meet konfabulator - we don't want be just an entry point or a feed manager we'd like to be your personalized one-stop shop for the web.
thanks, sanaz.
For most users the issue is not if start.com will be beautiful or useful or easy to use or something so new, but the issue is if MSN will provide a single, consistent and simple interface accross all its site and do that now and not after all its compeeditors have done. MSN is slow in moving. MSN reminds me of a site built by more than one company. MSN does not strive for simplicity (looked at the new Shopping site?) but instead thinks more componentization (Passport is not on the same page but on a separate domain) and of features, as well as advertising. Many features confuse users. The web is not for overloaded pages. The web is for simple and nice looking services (Google maps?). The web is a fast market and MSN takes too longto think the details but forgets that what matters is the look, the simple urls (not spaces.msn.com/members/mylongname) and consistency.
I would so pay real money for an AJAX RSS aggregator. Blogline UI bugs the heck out of me.sanaz ahari wrote:bloglines meet my yahoo meet konfabulator - we don't want be just an entry point or a feed manager we'd like to be your personalized one-stop shop for the web.
thanks, sanaz.
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Well this site made IE crash on first vist. lol
Just saw it posted on Slashdot like it was the newest thing since sliced bread. Looks like it got slashdoted as well.
I was reading some of the comments and boy does it get ripped to shreds by the anti-MS zealots. It just gets shredded because of who owns the site