I believe one picture is worth a million words, and a video is worth thousands of pictures. So, I decided to record my second screencast (first one was a screencast of the MSN RSS Aggregator) while setting up and starting to use the new Yahoo 360. I think it turned out good and I hope someone will find it helpful. You may find it a little long at about 16 minutes, but do not worry, I indexed the flash movie so that you can skip to different sections with a click.
Check out my Yahoo 360 screencast here and let me know what you think.
Yesterday Microsoft made it public that they are working on an web-based RSS Aggregator and also an online bookmark service . It is more like a simple start page idea as one can say from the http://start.com/1 url as well. I thought I could do a screencast of the new aggregator. It didn?t turn out as good as I would like it to be, but unfortunately I do not have too much time in my hands to perfect it. I decided to post it anyways because I wanted to get it out of the door before I notice anyone else does a screencast.
You can check out the screencast here. It is in flash movie format. I have to apologize for the sound. You will hear my laptop?s hard drive screaming at the beginning. I wish I had a better sound setup at the time but I hope everyone can live with that.
As a review, I can say that it looks pretty cool. The interface and the page looks very unlike Microsoft and very Google like. Simple and fast. However, it lacks a lot of crucial features for an aggregator at this point. I am sure those features will be added very soon. But, in my opinion, being that late in the game, Microsoft should be able to introduce some extra stuff to prevent being Bloglines or MyYahoo clone. As a final note, I have to say, I am impressed how fast they introduced the Firefox support. Now, the other start page should provide Firefox support. I think the support will be there soon.
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