Profile – MSN Start.com
What is it?
Start.com, an RSS aggregator and search service, is one of Microsoft’s “Sandbox” projects (Virtual Earth is another one). It is an AJAX application.
Key Features:
- “pin” content (feeds or search results) anywhere on the page
- drag pinned content anywhere on the page
- remove any content
- increase or decrease the number of columns
- change the basic look of the page (“granite”, “ice”, etc.)
The only thing I can’t figure out how to do is delete the “popular” feeds that are pre-populated from the drop down menu.
Like Google’s RSS aggregator, this is a great service for RSS newbies or people who only read a limited number of feeds.
Team:
Scott Isaacs, the architect for start’s framework
Steve Rider, lead developer
Jose Saura, lead developer
Sanaz Shari, program manager
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