Listas: Live Labs Technical Preview

Live Labs recently announced a tech preview of a new social content platform names Listas. From the Live Labs blog:

Listas is a tool for the creation, management and sharing of lists, notes, favorites, and more. It allows you to quickly and easily edit lists, share them with others for reading or wiki-style editing, and discover the public lists of other users.

Listas has one fundamental data structure - the list. The list allows for indenting - effectively the creation of hierarchical lists, or sub-lists. In addition to wiki-like editing of list data, Listas comes with another key component: a toolbar. With the toolbar installed, users can - upon encountering something they would like to store in a list - push data to their account on Listas. The toolbar page explains:

Quickly navigate to Listas web site.

One click to add a link to your current page to a list.

Select page content and click once to add it to a list.

Highlight web page "clippings" and add them to a list

Listas also offers a community aspect which allows for the sharing and joint editing of lists.

Comments

[Dmitry]

Looks neat, but I just don't see what I'd use it for. For me, a combination of Google Bookmarks (with Firefox bookmarklet) and Google Notebook (with Firefox extension) seems far more useful.

Perhaps they should do a writeup on the "real-life" use scenarios?