It looks like Microsoft’s beta RSS reader start.com will be launching fully on 15th September. This isn’t surprising as with the addition of roaming and bookmarks in the last release, this became a fully functional homepage.It’ll be interesting to see what the commercial model for the full service will be as the beta has [...]

Kevin Burton reports that Microsoft are looking at new names for RSS. At the moment they are calling them “web feeds” but they are open to other suggestions.
For once I think Microsoft are doing the right thing, even though the techies are up in arms about what they see as another example of Microsoft [...]

Start.com, Microsoft’s cool beta RSS reader have just added the ability for accounts to roam using MSN Passport.
I don’t think this quite constitutes release 4 of the prototype but release 4 must be due soon given that:
start.com/1 -> released in March 05
start.com/2 -> released in April 05
start.com/3 -> released in June 05
start.com/4 -> overdue???????
I really [...]

If you use the Sage Firefox extension then here are some nice style sheets I’ve found. To install any of these themes:

Download the file and extract it somewhere appropriate
Open firefox, and from the extensions menu, right click sage and go to the options screen.
Make sure ‘use custom stylesheet’ is checked, click browse and navigate to [...]

Google have finally added RSS feeds to its personalised homepage and there are rumours floating around that adding your own feed might increase your page rank.  I still think MSN’s beta service has the most potential although I’m using Rojo at the moment more as I like the way it aggregates my feeds and clearly [...]