I am listening to 'All good things come to an end' by Nelly Furtado as I write this blog post. No, not planned. It just happened to play randomly on my playlist - timely for this post. 

 

This is a bittersweet moment as I reflect on what start.com accomplished from it's inception in February 2005, helping pioneer ajax homepages and gadgets on the web. We accomplished great things both in terms of technology as well as being an agile small team and connecting with our customers. A successful incubation project that evolved to live.com. Unfortunately it is now time for us to retire start.com as our incubation ground for live.com.  Effective next Tuesday, 5/22/07, start.com will redirect to live.com.

 

Are you an active start.com customer and want to keep your feeds?

1. if you don't have the 'add content' gadget, add it by hovering on the logo and clicking on 'add feeds and gadgets'

2. click on 'advanced' within the 'add content' gadget

3. at the bottom you'll see the option for 'click here to export your feed subscriptions to OPML', click on 'here'

4. save the file locally

5. you can import this file to live.com or your favorite rss reader

 

To import to live.com:

1. click on 'add stuff' in the upper left hand corner

2. click on 'advanced options'

3. browse for the opml file next to the 'import OPML file' option

4. once imported you'll find your subscriptions under 'my stuff' within the 'subscriptions' folder

 

Sanaz Ahari on behalf of the start.com team

Lead Program Manager, Live Search