Magnolia

URL	http://ma.gnolia.com
Type of site	Online social bookmarking
Registration	Optional
Owner	Gnolia Systems
Launched	2006[1]
Current status	Out of service due to data storage problems

Ma.gnolia was a popular^[2][3] social bookmarking web site with an emphasis on design, social features, and open standards, though it is now perhaps most notable for losing members' bookmarks in a widely-reported^{[4][5][6][7][8]} data loss incident. Users could rate bookmarks and mark bookmarks as private. Unlike its main competitor^[9] Delicious, Ma.gnolia stored snapshots of bookmarked web pages. One feature that distinguished it from other similar web sites was the group feature, which allowed several users to share a common collection of bookmarks, managed by a selected number of group managers.

The design of the web site allowed for integration of the service into other applications via both a REST API and an API similar to the Delicious API. The web browser Flock supported Ma.gnolia along with other services out of the box^[10].

Contents 1 Open standards 2 M2 project 3 January 2009 total data loss 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Open standards

Ma.gnolia supported open standards and was often among early adopters of these standards. The bookmarking service provided support for several Microformats: In July and August 2006, among other information, support for MicroID and XFN was announced on the Ma.gnolia blog^[11][12]. The announcements were well received by the community around online reputation management services^[13].

In December 2007, Ma.gnolia collaborated with Engagd^[14] to let users build attention profiles from their bookmarks^{[citation needed]}. In March 2008, Ma.gnolia changed its join and sign-in pages to require users to sign up with a verified identity using OpenID.^{[citation needed]} In August 2008, Ma.gnolia, among others, signed the OAuth 1.0 license.^[15]

[edit] M2 project

In August 2008 Larry Halff announced a ground-up rewrite of the service called M2^[16]. Parts of the new version are going to be provided under an 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^[17] from a similar project] by Reddit^[18].

[edit] January 2009 total data loss

Ma.gnolia servers lost all data in a corruption and complete outage on January 30, 2009. Founder Larry Halff said it would take days, not hours, to diagnose the loss.^[19] On February 17, Halff announced that due to the data corruption, all user data in the database was irretrievable, rendering the site essentially dead. ^[20][21]

Ma.gnolia's Recovery Tools allowed users to recover some data from web caches and from other feeds. However, since the tools rely on external sources to reconstruct users' data, they were limited in how much data they could restore.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site