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Microsoft launches social bookmarking/GTD/wiki service Listas

webware.com — It's called Listas and it's basically a social bookmarking service for keeping track of content you come across while browsing the Web, and sharing it with others.

Who dugg this? Made popular Oct 21, 2007

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  • lidri, on 10/29/2007, -20/+65If Apple did the same, they would be praised for innovation.
  • noahhoward, on 10/29/2007, -8/+19This is a major problem with companies that are as big as Microsoft, they're so late to the game it is almost stupid to have bothered. The Zune, for example could have been a viable competitor for the iPod if it had come out shortly after the iPod and not 6 years later. Social networks are done find something else and move on.

    Also, I find it interesting that Microsoft will be running the adds for Digg while running a competing service... smells like conflict of interests.
  • terminalpariah, on 10/28/2007, -2/+12Digg isn't a social bookmarking service, it's a social news service.
  • inactive, on 10/23/2007, -2/+12Kinda like iTunes works with all MP3 players? Oh wait...
  • Hacktivist, on 10/21/2007, -0/+7What? The first think you do before you can even make a "list" is choose a username...
  • cranium, on 10/23/2007, -11/+17If Apple did the same, they'd make it work right with firefox.
  • Ryosen, on 10/28/2007, -2/+8I'm pretty sure he meant http://I'mASpammingDouchebag.com
  • inactive, on 10/23/2007, -4/+8Welcome to Microsoft's Live Labs' Listas
    Your browser is not supported.
    Listas was designed for IE 7 and Firefox browsers only. You can choose to proceed to browse this site, but some features may not work as intended.
    I'm using Firefox and it's telling me my browser isn't supported, but it supports Firefox.. lame.
  • Kajico, on 10/24/2007, -10/+14hmmm, sounds del.icio.us.
  • Bombfrog, on 10/26/2007, -0/+3"Apple has never been a "Me Too" kind of company."

    Loltastic.

    Of course, apple invented the computer, the MP3 player and the phone didn't they.
  • estacado, on 10/26/2007, -3/+6Ummm... aren't there enough of these things already?
  • masterthiefster, on 10/22/2007, -0/+3I'm messing with it right now in Firefox 2.0.0.8 and it works fine, no error messages or anything, so obviously the "IE only" errors are fixed. Personally I don't think it's as smooth an interface as that of Google Notebook or Google Docs & Spreadsheets, but then again this is still in beta.

    Right now it's sorely missing a history tab, especially since you can set "Public Read/Write". All in all it's a promising service, and being tied to the increasingly-unified Live accounts may give it the edge against independent equivalents.
  • defectDS, on 10/23/2007, -4/+6"If Apple did the same, they would be praised for innovation."

    Why does everyone say this? Every time a story about Microsoft making something pops up, so does this same exact comment; it really is just a contest for who says it first. And the truth is, it wouldn't be. Name something that Apple has created that wasn't first met with negative and questionable opinions.
  • chugger1992, on 11/03/2007, -1/+3but it's probably got Windows Mobile support. Hmm, wonder why...
  • Sabretou, on 10/26/2007, -2/+4Yeah, bury a good site's well-written article because you hate Microsoft. You're so cool now.
  • ball4foot, on 10/29/2007, -7/+9Nice, you can only use ie 7. For a program that makes lists. These people are insane.
  • masterthiefster, on 11/03/2007, -2/+4This is from the company behind Internet Explorer... why are you surprised? :)
  • ifm1989, on 11/03/2007, -0/+2Yeah Microsoft sucks with the whole social thing. XBOX Live was such a flop.
  • quikboy, on 10/24/2007, -0/+2No, they would do Safari only. Which is much worse.
  • inactive, on 10/21/2007, -0/+1I don't know you but I'm sick of the Beta bandwagon that any website wants to be in this days.
  • realbadass, on 10/29/2007, -5/+6This page is not Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!

    http://www.tiny.cc/TUtSb
  • Bllasae, on 10/23/2007, -0/+1Well, whatever, but MS Office is cool and the greatest set of programs from Excel to Word you'll ever find.
  • ultrafez, on 01/07/2009, -0/+1I think you're the first person I've seen that uses the Mozilla-approved abbreviation for Firefox.
  • stalefries, on 10/29/2007, -3/+4Ads aren't "social".
  • Ferre1, on 10/29/2007, -6/+7I noticed that it uses the user's email address as a member name, that makes me not sign up for such a service, I don't want my email address to be harvested for spam purposes that easy as I see microsoft doing there, it's a heaven for email address harvesters and spammers.
  • inactive, on 10/26/2007, -1/+1I'm glad someone like it.
  • kukumerah, on 01/25/2008, -0/+0good
  • kilodelta, on 10/29/2007, -4/+41996 called, they want their angst back.
  • inactive, on 10/29/2007, -8/+8can you back that up with anything? you know digg couldn't make a dime without microsoft's ad platform, right?
  • canthraxp, on 10/24/2007, -4/+4This is what happens when they miss the Ballmer's peak. (XKCD)
  • pierre, on 10/29/2007, -7/+7MS is so clueless... their time has passed.
  • jizzlies, on 10/26/2007, -1/+1That was actually a pretty funny site. I liked the Guide to College Mascots: http://www.bofads.com/stories/collegemascots.htm
  • stalefries, on 10/21/2007, -1/+1Microsoft is too cool for beta.
  • murf43143, on 10/29/2007, -5/+5"The Listas WYSIWYG editor is pretty barebones. Adding a link to text requires a keyboard shortcut, which unfortunately doesn't even work in Firefox."

    Stupid jerk-heads.
  • inactive, on 10/21/2007, -2/+2Put an Apple logo on it and you will see how *magically* it becomes innovative.
  • dotnetnoob, on 10/21/2007, -0/+0wrong! MS alway let the market established first then push out their offering. MS Office was late to the party for many years. There already WordPerfect, Lotus, VisualCal before Office and yet MS managed to get the most market share. Hell, Mac and Unix was before Windows and MS managed to corner that market and before you scream monopoly. Windows and Office were on the equal front. Both products didn't get any advantage since Windows doesn't have the market share back then. What's late to the party? Google was late to the party and they manage to become number 1 in the search engine. There was AltaVista and many other dot bomb search engine back then. I rather come to the party late then to lunch something that the market was not ready for it yet. For example, Apple's Newton.
  • Fiyerstorm, on 10/29/2007, -3/+3Wow. The concept and the name of that site sound too similar to http://www.liosta.com
  • Bllasae, on 10/23/2007, -1/+1Or del.icio.us.
  • dotnetnoob, on 10/23/2007, -1/+0http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/200 ...

    even 1% of the search market is profitable enough to keep going. let there be a market first then push your own offering. that's the historical MS tatic. MS is not pioneer. MS is a follower-leader. you will know this if you know your PC history. Windows server, MS SQL,...etc. and even the Xbox are all late to the game/party. so what? MS doesn't need to win every battle front. if MS manage to get 1% of the market share to build up brand and keep shipping code by the 3rd version. MS will managed to get a sizeable market share and pretty soon the game is over. That's how MS operate. That's how Bill play his game. at least ***** read up on some history. IE is also another fine example of how MS operate. the first, generation suck donkey's balls and by the time IE5 roll out. IE is way better than Netscape's bloated Navigator and we see a huge increase of IE market share and IE6 just killed Netscape until Firefox come out and cut all the ***** out of Navigator and regain market share.
  • Bllasae, on 10/24/2007, -3/+2So it's Microsoft del.icio.us huh?
  • pundit8086, on 10/26/2007, -3/+2similar to what is out there already, reminds me of Backpack crossed with http://www.chainofthoughts.com
  • boldfire, on 10/24/2007, -3/+1How many social networks does it take for it to become anti-social? What I mean is, with so many options all doing same or similiar things not everybody will use the same service and so takes away from the 'social' aspect of it.
    Although it looks like a well made (generally, ignoring Fx incompatibility) website I can't see it taking off.
  • twoboxen, on 10/24/2007, -5/+3StumbleUpon FTW
  • inactive, on 10/21/2007, -4/+1YES they would.
  • defectDS, on 10/24/2007, -5/+1de.list.as?
  • thewump, on 10/24/2007, -6/+2Sounds like listingly.com and tada without iphone support
  • noahhoward, on 10/23/2007, -11/+6No they wouldn't. But you keep telling yourself that.
  • inactive, on 10/23/2007, -9/+4Welcome to Microsoft's Live Labs' Listas
    Your browser is not supported.
    Listas was designed for IE 7 and Firefox browsers only. You can choose to proceed to browse this site, but some features may not work as intended.

    I'm using Firefox and it's telling me my browser isn't supported, but it supports Firefox.. lame.
  • sifiblog, on 10/29/2007, -9/+4I predict that the next step is to integrate this with ie8.
  • cl0n3x, on 10/29/2007, -22/+17Any type of website that has "social" as part of the description created by Microsoft is bound to fail.
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