I was beginning to think that whatever service I had used first, I would always stick with: Google Reader, Blogger, MSN, GoodReads, etc. But now I think I might have to make a switch to ma.gnolia. Thankfully, they make it easy to move your stuff from del.icio.us on over to ma.gnolia.
They say you can make bookmarks private in ma.gnolia, but del.icio.us does allow something similar. You can also rate pages, but quite frankly, I wouldn't bookmark them if I didn't care about them in the first place. I'm not going to bookmark a page I hate. However, I love that ma.gnolia will save a copy of the website you bookmark so you don't have to worry if it disappears tomorrow. And ma.gnolia is pretty as a flower, really. The visual appeal is definitely a bonus.
Del.icio.us has the advantage of time and Yahoo backing. The Firefox extensions are awesome and I have used them extensively. Del.icio.us is the most widely used social bookmarking site, so from the social aspect, it is better. However, if you don't care so much about how many people are tagging with you and networking with you, I think ma.gnolia is a lovely choice.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Del.icio.us vs. Ma.gnolia
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I had similar comments as you, Tricia. Since I'm a new to social bookmarking in general, it's great to have the opportunity to really play with each and get started with the one that really works better for me (rather than say having started with delicious and then having to transfer everything over, like you said you did...)
To me, the social part of social bookmarking isn't a big factor... at least not yet anyway. I just like the idea of being able to customize and sort my bookmarks for MY use, anywhere I happen to be.
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