The Ma.gnolia Blog
Where the Ma.gnolia community meets to discuss social bookmarking and online life.
Little Pictures on the Web Site
A few sharp eyes have noticed something new about Ma.gnolia over the past month: a change in the source of our thumbnail screen shots that are found on bookmark detail pages, RSS and Atom feeds, daily blog postings, and through our API.
Where are these images now coming from? A new service we’re publicly launching today called thmbnl.
Continued...Posted by Larry on March 5, 2008 | 1 comment | Mark This Post
Is it Two Already?
Well, here we are in the middle of February and we find ourselves at another milestone: today marks 2 years of Ma.gnolia on the web! Like all anniversaries, it’s a good time to look back and take stock of how far we’ve come, and where we’re heading.
Continued...Posted by Todd on February 15, 2008 | 5 comments | Mark This Post
More Message Control
Continuing with the theme of the week, I’ve been receiving a number of emails from members complaining about about Ma.gnolia messages they’ve been getting from spammers.
One of our goals in building and designing Ma.gnolia has been to make it easy for our members to connect and communicate. But, as we’ve grown and become more widely known, a small, but highly-impactful, number of people selfishly view Ma.gnolia and other social bookmarking sites a promotional tool they can exploit by any means they wish. And, one of those means has been member-to-member messaging.
Continued...Posted by Larry on February 6, 2008 | 16 comments | Mark This Post
A Dirty Shame
This week Andy Baio uncovered how one unscrupulous link spammer was filling his account with Timesonline.co.uk bookmarks, shining a little spotlight on the world of link spamming, SEO, and SMO.
Today, he followed up with a post gathering reactions from those of us running some of the sites on which this user had created accounts. There’s some great stuff in there, though I feel that I came across somewhat less eloquent than my colleagues. Guess that’s what happens when you’re interviewed via IM.
One of the things I’d mentioned was that spamming ”... costs us real money in time and resources.” To understand what I mean by this, I thought it would help to illustrate some of the different kinds of promotion we encounter as well as some statistics on service usage.
Continued...Posted by Larry on January 31, 2008 | 10 comments | Mark This Post
Extra, Extra!
We’re getting ready to send out the latest Ma.gnolia newsletter, and thought we could do something different from the usual cross-posting that we do to the blog for those who don’t receive the monthly email from us.
We also wanted a way to make past newsletters available for new members to learn about features, tips, and how Ma.gnolia has changed over time. The solution is the Vault of Newsletters Past, which you can now visit to find recent newsletters whether or not you receive them by email.
So, starting today, instead of posting the newsletter to the blog, we’ll just post a note to the here and on Twitter to let you know about each new edition added to the Vault.
Posted by Todd on January 28, 2008 | 0 comments | Mark This Post
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