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There has been a lot of brouhaha over Ma.gnolia going open source and I’m not sure most of it is justified. There are certainly features that work to Ma.gnolia’s advantage, but even though embracing open source and data portability (among other features) improve the service, they are unlikely to make it competitive . Not only is Ma.gnolia minuscule compared to Yahoo’s Delicious (recently relaunched to version 2.0), but compared to Yahoo’s Buzz and Digg , even Delicious itself is minuscule and that’s not about to change. The times, they’re a-changin’ The launch of Yahoo’s Buzz was a somewhat controversial move on the company’s part. ... Read Full Story

Social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia is going open source, announcing plans to allow anyone to download their code and run their own version of the service under a GPL license. While the project - dubbed M2 - won’t officially launch until next month, the company is launching Ma.gnolia.org today, which includes a project charter, preliminary documentation, and a discussion group. While more established competitor Reddit launched their own open source initiative back in June, the goals for Ma.gnolia are a bit different. Whereas Reddit’s mission is focused on having developers contribute to the core codebase, Ma.gnolia is looking to become a distributed social bookmarking service, ... Read Full Story

You have bookmarked your site on a social bookmarking website and are still waiting to get free traffic without any luck? Just check have you optimally defined the tags for your bookmark? Tags are important while bookmarking your site, since these would help the right people, possibly your potential customers, to find your site. Each social bookmarking site has a system that allows you to "tag" your sites. This means that you can affix whatever keywords you want to the links. If you have a dog training site, you can choose tags such as dog, training, dog-training, grooming, pets, and so on. This way, ... Read Full Story

Social bookmarking has become the favorite way for search engine optimizers to increase page rank for their websites while attracting increased traffic hits. Given the importance of social bookmarking, it would be worth to understand what actually is social bookmarking? How are the social bookmarking sites helpful in making your blog a success?? How do bloggers get increased traffic hits to their blogs via social bookmarking??? How do these sites help bloggers to make money from their blogs???? What Is Social Bookmarking? Social bookmarking is an online method of storing, organizing, sharing and searching bookmarks of selected web pages. A bookmarking site allows members ... Read Full Story

Working in IT, i work on a variety of different machines, both mac and pc, in the office and at home, at my desk and at other peoples desks. So social bookmarks really are a must have for me, by storing all of my bookmarks online i have access to them wherever i can get the internet. Not only that but as i have added keywords or tags to all of my bookmarks i can also search them, so finding a bookmark is a lot easier that scrolling threw an endless list. There are a lot of social bookmarking sites out there, but my ... Read Full Story