Apple-Of-My-I.com Online support forum for Apple products
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Excerpted from the website description:
- How Do You Apple?, mission statement, so to speak
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Ma.gnolia: Apple-Friendly Social Bookmarking Social bookmarking tools evolved from a way to better organize your favorite URLs into an entire ecosystem based on sharing and discussing the rapidly evolving content on the World Wide Web. The unusually named website Del.icio.us is widely credited with starting the trend, earning it a spot in Yahoo!’s portfolio of web services. In late 2005, Larry Halff hired the respected design team from Happy Cog to take some of the core ideas from Del.icio.us even further.
The result was Ma.gnolia, a site that many of its users describe as a broader social experiment than other social bookmarking websites. In addition to tracking common links, Ma.gnolia allows users to organize themselves into groups, where members can easily monitor collective activity and offer commentary on the latest bookmarks added to the service.
Because of its clean design and the abundance of Apple-specific tools available for the service, Ma.gnolia has attracted a strong following among Mac users. Here are just a few of the ways you can use your Mac to participate in the Ma.gnolia community.
Using Ma.gnolia Ma.rker on your Mac OS X Dashboard Adding links to your Ma.gnolia feed is easy when you download the free Ma.gnolia Ma.rker plugin provided on the site’s official tools page. Although there are a few bookmarklets and browser plugins available, the Dashboard plugin is a really simple way to plug more links into Ma.gnolia using your Mac’s built-in tools. Hitting F12 or clicking your Dashboard icon brings up the Ma.gnolia Ma.rker widget, pre-populated with the title and URL of the page you’re browsing. Clicking “save” marks your page without ever taking you away from the site.
Ma.gnolia Ma.rker is just one of a growing number of Dashboard widgets that allow Apple users to optimize their experience with the social bookmarking site. Another widget allows Mac owners to view a virtual river of thumbnails as the collective bookmarks of the community roll by. As Ma.gnolia develops more external APIs and Apple makes Dashboard development easier in the forthcoming Leopard OS, expect to see even more tools and features for the Mac.
Getting to the Roots of the Discussion While many bloggers enjoy the simplicity of using a social networking tool like Ma.gnolia to preserve their bookmarks, a growing number of the site’s users are interacting with each other in live discussions that happen in relation to bookmarks. This discussion is especially vital on pages that don’t offer live commenting, trackbacks, or forums for audience members.
Ma.gnolia calls these discussions “roots,” and they’re easily accessible from both the website and from a JavaScript bookmarklet that you can add to your web browser’s toolbar. By clicking on the “Roots” bookmarklet, Ma.gnolia uses a lightbox effect to fade your current web page to the background and bring up a highlighted discussion about that page. Users can add their comments or mark the page for inclusion as a Ma.gnolia bookmark, while keeping the page itself in the background.
Swapping and Sharing Bookmarks Like similar sites, Ma.gnolia makes it easy to share bookmarks with other users. Ma.gnolia also allows users to export their bookmarks and comments as a feed that can be integrated into a variety of websites and desktop applications. Bloggers who use popular website publishing tools like Wordpress or Moveable Type can use Ma.gnolia to maintain a “sideblog” or an “external links” list that appears in the sidebar of their web pages.
Mac users can download Tasty, a free software package that was initially designed for use with Del.icio.us, but has been converted to work with Ma.gnolia bookmarks, as well. Tasty lets users convert old bookmarks from Safari or from the Dock into Ma.gnolia bookmarks using a simple, drag-and-drop interface.
The Future of Ma.gnolia While Ma.gnolia is currently supported by a variety of text and banner ads that appear throughout the site, company representatives have suggested that they may soon offer “pro level” services in exchange for subscription fees. While the company expects to keep the core bookmarking and discussion services available for free, some of the fee-based services could include advanced publishing tools for professional bloggers and custom statistics for publishers about their included URLs.
In the meantime, while Del.icio.us has captured the lead in the social bookmarking space, Ma.gnolia has won the hearts and minds of discerning users who prefer discussion and insight to a simple list of links.
Community Reviews
Site Being Built With Joomla For Apple Users
We have created this site... no, I start again... We are perpetually creating this site to be an online community for Apple users. We are currently working on ways that you will be able to control the content on this site. This is for you, not us. So, please come here as often as you like. And add content, add content, add content. Latest Screencast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFGDnRuPAdA
- posted by Marshal sandler on Jan 29, 2007, 2:05 pm
