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Here’s the latest from Microsoft Live Labs: Listas. Listas, get it? Funny, right? This is a list-sharing tool that lets you edit lists, share them with others, and search for public lists that have been created by users. Microsoft is proposing its use for just about any reason you’d make a list, including meeting notes, shopping lists, or casual event planning.

Now you have a place to aggregate and manage all of your lists. Items can be entered manually, or with a downloadable bookmarking tool, and there are a few formating options for the list itself, including font modification and a bullet system. Privacy settings for lists include public or private, and lists can be edited by other users in a wiki-manner as well. So now you and your friends can list the pros and cons of taking that trip to Vegas together (as if there were any cons).

There’s also a community section, where you’ll find the most popular items from the public lists, including the most used tags, the “hottest” lists, and active users. You can add another user’s list to your RSS feed (but no email option) or keep track of it in Listas, and also copy other lists to use for your own purposes. Should this be rolled out as an integrated feature for Windows Live Spaces, I imagine these lists could be widgetized for use on profiles, and exported to mobile phones as a text message, email or RSS.

[via ZDNet]

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