Online Lists With Listas

Listas is a new online list making tool from Microsoft Labs, now available as a tech preview. With Listas, you can create, manage, and browse lists that you make, share & collaborate on lists with your friends, and explore topic specific & popular lists within the Listas community. As you browse the web, you can collect content for your lists, by using the (optional) Listas Toolbar which lets you highlight web content and add the clipping to the list. However, Listas isn’t really designed to replace an online, bookmarking service, like del.icio.us. Rather, it’s simply a tool that lets you make lists - lists of whatever you want. Browsing through some of today’s lists, I can see that people have used the tool for shopping lists, a vacation ideas list, a movie quotes list, a list of iPhone optimized websites, and much more. Your lists can be tagged and each list has an RSS feed that can be subscribed to. Maybe not revolutionary, but handy. However, as far as online lists go, Listas has some stiff competition. Popular online to-do lists, like Remember the Milk and Ta-Da List are rich, web 2.0 apps with tons of features like mobile access, offline sync, widgets, online calendar integration (Remember the Milk) and nifty features like checkboxes for completed items (Ta-Da List). For more on Listas, Channel 10 has the video.