Like most useful software, I discovered Windows Live Labs Listas due to a problem I was having whilst browsing the internet. My problem was a fairly simple one - I had a few snippets of various web pages I wanted to keep and share with friends/family. I didn't want to use notepad as storing several instances of notepad text files takes some organising plus this wouldn't be kept online. Sure I could of emailed them, but that would of meant an extensive email with several lengthy explanations. Simply - I wanted to keep the snippets, the source of the snippets and a simple way of retrieving those snippets.
Well in fact this isn't so simple, I could find no way of doing this in the browser. Adding to favourites or storing the links in social bookmarking like Delicious or Microsoft Community Bookmarks didn't do it for me as I only wanted a snippet and not the whole page. I was using IE8 on the computer at the time, so I looked at the IE8 addons website and there wasn't anything there, Firefox has a similar addon website but I wasn't going to install a new browser and then search for an addon that may or may not exist.
I read about a new accelerator for IE8 called webslices, but this is push technology so didn't tick the box (the website owner has to enable webslices - I can't request one).
I was about to give up and open Notepad when I came accross Listas which is exactly what I was looking for. Signing in using my LiveID, my account is created automatically. I can then add the snippet to any list that I create on my Listas account, which also helpfully saves the URL and provides a link back. Admittedly Listas works better if you have installed the toolbar (which does not require a restart of the browser). The outstanding feature here is that you can then export the list or lists as an RSS feed. Also the lists are very manageable. All in all an very useful site, it's in Beta so care must be taken about how much you depend on it, because it could just get dropped. But I am using this extensively right now!
Of course Mac users will be laughing, as they have stickies, which probably would of done the trick. But my Mac is broken and I am not happy about it!
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