Ma.gnolia
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Type of site
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Online social bookmarking |
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| Owner | Gnolia Systems |
| Website | http://gnolia.com |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 2006 |
| Current status | Defunct |
Gnolia, named Ma.gnolia until 2009, was a social bookmarking web site with an emphasis on design, social features, and open standards. It is now perhaps most notable for losing members' bookmarks in a widely reported data loss incident in January 2009. It relaunched as a smaller service several months later and was ultimately shut down at the end of 2010.
Users could rate bookmarks and mark bookmarks as private. Unlike its main competitorDelicious, 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.
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. 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, among others, signed the OAuth 1.0 license.
In August 2008, founder Larry Halff announced a ground-up rewrite of the service called M2. Parts of the new version were going to be provided under an open source license. It was planned that custom installations of Ma.gnolia can be federated with other installations or the Ma.gnolia website itself. This distributed aspect was the main difference from a similar project by Reddit.
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