Ma.gnolia: More Social Bookmarking
Michael Arrington
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I’m looking forward to seeing what ma.gnolia is all about. It appears to be a social bookmarking service with a twist of some sort. I hope its a good twist because this space is getting a bit crowded to say the least.
Ma.gnolia describes itself as “Found is the New Search” and “Social Bookmarking to build an information community online”, adding:
What you mark in Ma.gnolia not only stays found but keeps coming back to you as your interests change. That’s our pitch, plain and simple, and it’s why we say that found is the new search.
If you’d like to be one of the first to see exactly what we mean, just enter your email below. You’ll be notified of our launch and become one of the first members of the Ma.gnolia community, where we believe you’ll discover the new evolution in growing and sharing information across town or across the globe. You may even be invited to participate in Ma.gnolia’s December 2005 Beta Launch.
They promise a beta in December 2005. I’m skeptical of companies that continue to launch with these domain name abominations (dropping vowels, using random ccTLDs and lots of extra dots), but if the service rocks, I will forgive all. Early buzz sounds promising.
Currently, a majority of people social bookmark the same way it’s been done for nearly 10 years - email cc list or email forwarding. The email way I personally like because it allows me to see others on the cc list I can talk to directly.
With that said, social bookmarking has been attempted by companies such as blink.com in the nineties as well as yahoo. I believed they didn’t become popular because they failed to acknowledge social subcultures.
I’m skeptical of these sites until they understand that people in SOHO think differently than a people in SOMA or people in SOBE, even if the keyword/tag is similiar.
The first comment is spam, but in this case I’m not sure I mind. It’s staying up.
Mike,
I agree - these ridiculous domain names should be outlawed. Hopefully magnolia (where does that darned dot go again?) will make up for it with a killer service.
If the domain name lexical fun is outlawed, I hope we can keep ours under a grandfather clause
The name does have a bit of a backstory, but it boiled down to wanting to give a nod to del.icio.us who kicked off social bookmarking and that we really, really wanted the name magnolia. But if you look at magnolia.com you’ll see how we just weren’t going to get it.
Anyway, we get that the domain name style doesn’t work for everyone. But I am glad to see interest in the features, where we definitely think we can impress, and maybe make the domain name easier to take.
(And thanks for the post, Michael!)
Domains like this are called ‘hacked’
names… I think they are good if they
are 2 letters with a 2 letter TLD, as
then they ‘work’ and look like a proper
(well intended) word.
E.g. Recently, I came across http://www.re.st
this name is ok because it’s easy to
remember, you can probably do cute
things with the dot (to make a great
logo) and it has some merit.
Based on the names alone, i’d have to
pass on Ma.gnolia.com and Del.icio.us!