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Ma.gnolia Goes Open Source - Will it Matter?

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Aug 22, 2008

Summary

Social bookmarking: the awkward genius hopes you'll take its ideas to parties for it.

Ma.gnolia, one of the most popular second tier social bookmarking services on the web, announced today at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle that the company has thrown itself to the mercy of the development community and is going to make its code available in open source.

Ma.gnolia is tiny compared to Yahoo's Delicious, but in every way other than network effects, it's more interesting. Unfortunately, that's all pretty academic. When interesting competes with the powerful network effects that come from the huge number of Delicious users - Delicious wins. Today's announcement may help grow Ma.gnolia quickly; at the very least it's a daring move.

Why Ma.gnolia is Cool

There aren't a whole lot of people using Ma.gnolia, but a lot of them are people who place great emphasis on web standards, data portability and other forward looking ideas.

The coolest features of Ma.gnolia?

OpenID support, so much support in fact that Open ID is the only way you can get a Ma.gnolia account now.

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Comments (5)

Raavi,

Aug 23, 2008

It's good that more and more big Social Media companies goes Open Source :) . That means more development in future ...

Vincent Wright,

Aug 24, 2008

Ma.gnolia does seem quite interesting and it is good to see it going Open Source. But, here's my question: what happens if Delicious goes Open Source?

Jennie,

Sep 02, 2008

Magnolia is a favicon on GetSmartmoodle.org's new UI. Developed by NewSchool Learning - experience247.com v4.5 spices up Moodle's normal look as a Moodle is a Moodle is a Moodle... But its all good...

Jennie,

Sep 02, 2008

Ma.gnolia is a part of a new favicon that can be found on a UI that was developed for Moodle use by NewSchool Learning for experience247.com v4.5, which allows the Admin to choose between 7 different colors for the UI (blue, red, green, yellow, purple, pink, and black). Developed for use with Moodle's ~ Ma.gnolia's favicon can be seen in use at http://getsmartmoodle.org presently.

Jennie,

Sep 03, 2008

Hello, everyone I just went to http://getsmartmoodle.org to check out the other favicons on the site: Digg, BlinkBits, De.licio.us, Furl, Ma.gnolia, Newsvine, Reddit, and Technorati are listed among them...so I guess that open source rules and that people could be getting tired of paying huge prices for technoloy... and that they want something a little more affordable...