Comments on: Web 2.0 Part IIa: Social Bookmarking

By: Michelle Murrain

Michelle Murrain — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:14:09 +0000

Thanks, Todd – I’ll check it out!

By: Todd Sieling

Todd Sieling — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:08:29 +0000

Michelle, we now have a tag roll feature in place for you to try out. If you see anything it needs, let us know!
It’s found from our add-ons page: http://ma.gnolia.com/support/addons and you need to be signed in for it to work.

By: Todd Sieling

Todd Sieling — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:43:47 +0000

Hey gang
I’m the product manager for Ma.gnolia, so I appreciate the comments here.

Michelle, we hear you on the concerns about speed, and we’ve made some strides in that respect after a rather clunky period of server failure and finding out where the choke points are.

If there are specific pages that give you trouble, or if you still find the overall site too slow, definitely let us know and we’ll get on that.

Finally, speaking of the API, we also have our regular one which is fairly robust and a great way to take advantage of the more unique aspects that we have going. We like what the delicious mirror API (named Mirrord) can do in porting existing applications, which is happening and documented on our blog.

Thanks for giving us a look, and again for the comments. It’s the best way for us to know how well we’re doing on delivering a good experience to you.

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:40:49 +0000

Alan Levine – CogDogBlog – created a tool that posts to all the socialbookmarking tools, but can’t seem to put my finger on it ..

I’m not in the mood to experiment with YASB – Yet another social bookmarking tool … but soon I will.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:45:19 +0000

Well, I haven’t found one, but I did find this: http://ma.gnolia.com/blog/2006/08/23/the-mirrord-api

So Ma.gnolia now has an API that mirrors del.icio.us API.

Which would make it dead easy to create a little app to send bookmarks to them both. Hmmmm….

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:39:33 +0000

Marnie: Yeah, Ma.gnolia is slow sometimes, but speed isn’t much of a factor for me. And I prefer the popup to delicious opening in the same window and messing up my page navigation stream. I do wish they had a tag cloud add on for blogs, too.

Beth: nope. I haven’t found one. I created my own, which basically just calls both delicious and magnolia, but you have to fill them in.

I have to admit I’m tempted to write a proof of concept app that will send the same bookmark to as many different social bookmarking tools as you want. Hmmmmm….. someone’s got to have done that already…

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:17:31 +0000

Thanks for this informative article! So, is there a bookmarklet that lets you bookmark to both delicious and magnolia with out going through two steps?

By: marnie webb

marnie webb — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:23:33 +0000

The two big problems I’ve run into with ma.gnolia — speed (it interupts my browsing by making me just wait for windows) and the fact that, for reasons I haven’t figured out yet, it isn’t working with my feedburner splice.

Those two things — adding itmes FAST — and the ability to have presentation of the items that integrates with my main communication tools (in my case, my blog and my main RSS feed) are key to a good social bookmarking tool.

By: Chris Willmott

Chris Willmott — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:02:19 +0000

Have you tried StumbleUpon for ‘stumbling’ upon websites that other like minded people have visited and liked.

Its great for lunch hours!

http://www.stumbleupon.com

There is also a FireFox toolbar to go with it.