Brian Sweeting

I have been using del.icio.us for about a year and a half, and it has been a great way to save links to things that are interesting to me. I recently started subscribing to some of my friends link feeds, because I find that what is interesting to them, is also interesting to me. I also subscribe to the del.icio.us popular feed to see what everyone is linking to. The problem I had is that to find other people’s link feeds, I had to guess at their username.

Enter Ma.gnolia. After finding the site through a link on Jeffery Zeldman’s website, I had imported my del.icio.us bookmarks, added some contacts, and joined some groups. It took about 10 minutes to make the switch. I also changed a single url, so the recent links section on my site was pointing at Ma.gnolia instead of del.icio.us.

I tend to be fairly loyal to a web service once I start using it, mainly because I become accustom to the way they work. With Ma.gnolia, I was able to easily make the transition and see that it has more to offer that del.icio.us ever has. Ma.gnolia does a much better job on the “social” aspect of “social bookmarking”. So go try it out and make sure to add me as a contact.