Gnolia

Magnolia
Type of site
Online social bookmarking
OwnerGnolia Systems
URLhttp://gnolia.com
RegistrationOptional
Launched2006[1]
Current statusDefunct

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.

  1. ^ Michael Arrington (2005-10-05). "Ma.gnolia: More Social Bookmarking". Techcrunch. Retrieved 2008-09-29.
  2. ^ "Are We Safeguarding Social Data?".
  3. ^ "Financial Times".
  4. ^ Calore, Michael (2009-01-30). "Ma.gnolia Suffers Major Data Loss, Site Taken Offline". Wired. Archived from the original on January 1, 2014.
  5. ^ Calore, Michael (2009-02-03). "Ma.gnolia Using FriendFeed to Restore Users' Data". Wired. Archived from the original on January 1, 2014.
  6. ^ "PC Pro Magazine | Subscription website".
  7. ^ Calore, Michael (2009-01-30). "Ma.gnolia Suffers Major Data Loss, Site Taken Offline". Wired. Archived from the original on January 1, 2014.