Microsoft Live Labs Listas
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Listas was a tool for the creation, management and sharing of lists, notes, and favorites, being developed at Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

 Live labs
Windows Live
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. It allowed users to quickly and easily edit lists, share them with others for reading or wiki
Wiki
A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include...

-style editing, and discover the public lists of other users.

The Listas Community section allowed users to find highlights of the most popular lists from around the community of public lists, such as the most used tags, the "hottest lists", and prolific contributors. Users were able to add another user's lists or RSS feed to their own Listas to keep them up to date.

Listas has since been retired as a project from Live Labs.

Listas Toolbar

Listas Toolbar was an internet toolbar
Toolbar
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 for Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer
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that allowed users to create lists from search results, wish lists, videos, or all or part of virtually any page that can be found on the web.

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