Soon after I starting subscribing to RSS feeds, I thought eventually all Web browsers would include built-in RSS/Atom feed reader/aggregator, just as some browsers such as Safari RSS and Opera 8 already do. I was thinking that Microsoft would add RSS capability to IE7, but I forgot about the online RSS aggregator/reader, something Microsoft is already working on. Recently I tried out the first version of Microsoft's experimental http://www.start.com/1/ and I found the user interface to be quite useful. Initially, it looks like MSN Search, but once you click the Show link on upper left part of the window, you get the RSS feeds. You can click the category tabs to view lists of feeds organized by categories and click any feed to see the topics and click a topic to expand the topic inline and read the first few lines of that topic (clicking the topic again collapses it). To add feeds, click to open the Add Content (refer to the figure below) and type in the URL of the RSS feed. The feed then appears in the My Feeds section on the tab. Here's a typical view of the relevant area of the IE window for http://www.start.com/1/:
I found the collapsible view of the topics and contents very convenient. One thing I did not like was that clicking more... to view the full topic opens that topic in a new browser window, but I guess there was no easy way to show it in the same window. Turns out Microsoft had another version as well—yes, you guessed it: http://www.start.com/2/—with a different view of the feeds. You can try it out and see what you think of the version 2 interface, but I liked the first version better. According to the Start.com news, the development team is moving on to version 3 that would meld versions 1 and 3 based on user feedback. I can't wait to see what version 3 looks like!
Hi Naba -- read your review with interest, but can't find the product. On my machine, your links lead to MSN Search, with no mention of RSS that I can see. What am I doing wrong?
Posted by: Brad Hill | May 21, 2005 at 12:39 AM
Brad, I am not sure what's wrong. When I initially went to http://www.start.com/1/ I get to something that looks like MSN Search initially, but I think I clicked "Show" on the upper left part of the window and then the rest of the RSS part appears. I should have been clear about that step. I hope it works for you after that step.
Posted by: Naba Barkakati | May 21, 2005 at 12:38 PM
Hmm, I don't see anything like that. A small notice on the screen does say "Loading..." but the browser is not loading anything. I gave it some time to load a script in the background, but nothing happened.
Posted by: Brad Hill | May 22, 2005 at 11:05 AM
Brad, I tried it again and I do see the "Loading..." for a second or two, but then "Show" appears and I am able to click it. It'd be nice to know why it doesn't work for you.
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