14 DAY TRIAL // Listas is a new project from Microsoft Live Labs. The Redmond company is hard at work developing a wide range of prototype concepts and incubation technologies under the Live Labs umbrella, including: Deepfish, Photosynth and Seadragon. In this context, Listas is but the latest addition to the collection of Microsoft projects, and a technology preview is already available. All you need is a Windows Live ID in order to sign in, create a profile and start compiling lists.
"Listas is a tool for the creation, management and sharing of lists, notes, favorites, and more. It allows you to quickly and easily edit lists, share them with others for reading or wiki-style editing, and discover the public lists of other users. We encourage you to try using it for meeting notes, bookmarks, shopping lists, to plan a night out, or whatever other creative ways you can think of", reads a fragment from the description of the project posted on Microsoft Live labs.
Essentially, Listas is a management system designed to permit users to create, store, share and centralize lists of various items online. In this manner, the lists will be made accessible from a variety of devices, providing a platform-agnostic service. The lists can be private, or a collaborative effort and can be easily published on the web and accessed via RSS.
"In the Listas Community Section, you will 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. You can even add others' lists (or any RSS feed) to your own Listas so you are always up to date. You can even create lists from all the things you find on the web, like search results, wish lists, videos, or all or part of virtually any page with the Listas Toolbar for Internet Explorer", Microsoft added.