Ma.gnolia is a social bookmarking web site comparable to Delicious or Simpy. A prominent feature that distinguishes it from other similar web sites is the group feature, which allows several users to share a common collection of bookmarks. The group is managed by a selected number of group managers. Users may rate bookmarks and mark bookmarks as private.

Integration

The design of the web site allows for integration of the service into other applications via a REST API, or an similar to the delicous API. The web browser Flock supports Ma.gnolia alongside other services out of the box.

Open Standards

Ma.gnolia supports open standards and is often among early adopters of these standards. The bookmarking service provides support for several Microformats: In July and August 2006, among other information, support for MicroID and XFN was announced on the Ma.gnolia blog. The announcements were well received by the community around online reputation management services.

In December 2007, Ma.gnolia collaborated with Engagd to let users build attention profiles from their bookmarks. In March 2008, Ma.gnolia changed its join and sign-in pages to require users to sign up with a verified identity using OpenID. In August 2008, Ma.gnolia, amon others, signed the OAuth 1.0 license.

M2

In August 2008 Larry Halff announced a ground-up rewrite of the service called M2. Parts of the new version are going to be provided under a open source license. It is planned that custom installations of Ma.gnolia can be federated with other installations or the Ma.gnolia website itself. This distributed aspect is the main difference to a similar project by Reddit. The open source aspects of M2 are published at Ma.gnolia.org.

Other Information

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• Owner  Gnolia Systems
• URL  http://ma.gnolia.com