August 3rd, 2005
The Launch of Start.com….Is Stalled?
Jonathon Flores
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Start.com is a very clean and basic site that allows you to organize the page with your favorite feeds and news. Just click the upper-left hand side where you see “Start Preview” to add or adjust feeds. Once you add your own favorite feed and want to pin it up on the main page- Click on the name (in the start preview bar) and select “pin”(this is how to put a feed on the main page). Once it’s pinned its located on the front page.
UPDATE: We have been visiting the page and it looks like Start is stalled out for the time being. We tried it on both IE and FireFox. The irony…..
Scott says:
It’s been there for a while. It’s very similar to Google’s Personalized Home Page, but handles adding RSS feeds better. Google won’t accept “http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/” in the Create a New Section box, but Start accepts it just fine. Of course, Google has integration with Gmail, which is a big point in its favor.
It’s billed as a preview, so look forward to seeing MS logos splashed everywhere eventually…
August 3rd, 2005 at 6:53 am
Alice says:
Is it me - I can;t get it to load more than the logo on Firefox or IE
August 3rd, 2005 at 11:45 am
Mel says:
start is not starting for me neither. Looking at the page source ans seein msn.com plastered, I thought it was my mozilla but IE had the same fate. But after seeing it is from M$, I don’t think that I would like to visit this page again, ever !
August 3rd, 2005 at 11:58 am
Alice says:
Looks like Start…stopped.
Couldn’t resist.
August 3rd, 2005 at 12:11 pm
Vic DaSilva says:
Start.com is working all you need to do is kick”start” to make it work. I couldn’t resist either.
To make it work add a /2 or /3 at the end of the URL.
The http://www.start.com/3 is the better of the two options because it is easier to customize and to add feeds.
August 3rd, 2005 at 12:32 pm
Alice says:
How weird. Talk about minimal…
August 3rd, 2005 at 1:04 pm
Lockergnome's Tech News Watch says:
The Launch of Start.com…Is Stalled?
Start.com is a very clean and basic site that allows you to organize the page with your favorite feeds and news. Just click the upper-left hand side where you see “Start Preview” to add or adjust feeds. Once you add your own favorite feed and want to…
August 3rd, 2005 at 3:01 pm
Jonathon Flores says:
Start.com is uncool for that stunt..i was so happy about it and now look at it…i curse you start.com
August 3rd, 2005 at 8:40 pm
Firef0x says:
I dont know what your doing or how old your system is or whats wrong with it. Cause I’ve been checking start.com both on firefox and IE and it works fine on both. Even with or without being signed into passport.net Better check your system pal…
September 7th, 2005 at 11:14 pm