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Development site for an open code release of the Ma.gnolia social bookmarking platform. Ma.gnolia is another bookmarking site that, prior to a well known crash of its system, planned to decentralise itself by encouraging the creation of a great many "little ma.gnolias" - satellite sites running ma.gnolia software, that would maintain a tie to the home site. The loss of all user data from the main site has set such plans back, but hasn't necessarily ended them altogether.

Something from better times for a little company. Video of Larry Halff talking about his plans for open sourcing ma.gnolia.

Larry Halff of Ma.gnolia (where I was before I came to Diigo) is interviewed, following the collapse of that service, and explains what he did wrong, without evasion. Many of us wish him well, and hope that both he manages to rebuild his company after this regrettable incident.

One of the few pieces of good news that came out of the Jan 30 mishap that swelled Diigo's ranks with former Ma.gnolia users was that many of the lost bookmarks were recoverable, especially if those users were using Friendfeed as well. I'm not generally a fan of that service, as it doesn't allow for comment screening, but one can set one's feed to "private", and a little extra insurance doesn't hurt. Let's hope that Diigo never suffers a similar incident, but just in case it does, being ready for it isn't a bad thing.

Post about the data loss incident at Ma.gnolia and what users of other services can do to reduce their risk

A group I've created as a gathering pplace for users of that service. So far (I'm posting this on 8:35 pm on March 15, 2009) there seems to be little interest in the idea.

Updates - if any more will ever be seen - on the progress of the service that many of Diigo's current users came from, after the January 30, 2009 data loss incident.