Type of site | Online social bookmarking |
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Owner | Gnolia Systems |
URL | http://gnolia.com |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | 2006[1] |
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. In January 2009, Gnolia lost members' bookmarks in a widely reported data loss incident.[2][3][4][5][6] 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 competitor[7] 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.