Sunday, February 26, 2006

Magnolia. Magnifico.

I have started to use Magnolia instead of Delicious for my bookmarks.

Social Bookmarking is all the rage, so it was bound to happen that someone would start a nicer looking spot for saving bookmarks as you trawl the web. I do think delicious is good but somehow ma.gnolia looks nicer and I am seeing some potential in using the groups feature to share bookmarks with my students. I have started a group called iMedia, but I am yet to see anyone else there! Join in here if you like. I have also started a group for Publishing. Join this too and add your bookmarks

furthermore...

Magnolia shares the del.icio.us idea by using a subdomain address thus: ma.gnolia.com. There are some useful tools on the site including import from delicious and a way to save your bookmarks to a file.

The main difference (apart from the looks) is the advertising. Just one, along the top. Some may hate this. But it seems to me that they are likely to last longer if they have some revenue. Magnolia was started by Larry Halff in San Francisco.