Stephen Downes

Promising. This is Robin Good's assessment of Microsoft Start, "a new, still undefined, unpromoted and unhyped technology service from Microsoft." Start is, in a word, an RSS feed reader. Users of Bloglines will find the format very familiar. What I like about Start is that it is very responsive - quite honestly, the first time I have seen a page from Microsoft load quickly on Firefox. As Robin Good notes, for this to be a leap ahead, it needs to be integrated into the MSN search technology.