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A distributed, open source Magnolia

33 points by defunkt 18y ago

ivey 18y ago
That's the spirit. Glad to see it's on GitHub, too.
markbao 18y ago
Ma.gnolia 2 was launched at Gnomedex2008 in August 2008, so it's something that has been in the works for a while. Here's the video of his presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0P6cTPS8_4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0P6cTPS8_4
dcurtis 18y ago
Maybe a good idea, but they used Comic Sans for the description and that is the sign of amateur. After they lost all of their own data, I really would never trust anything with these people ever again.
- alexandros 18y ago
  I presume that is exactly the point. If it becomes an open, federated, distributed, open source, social bookmarking (any more buzz words?) service, you don't have to trust them with anything. Really, that is possibly the only way they could ever recover any semblance of trust.
- unalone 18y ago
  This is exactly what Comic Sans was made for: a brief blurb of text that's meant to look playful rather than formal. Comic Sans actually works better than Chalkboard for that purpose. Comic Sans is hated because it's overused, but don't take from that that there are no good uses. There is only one.
- dpeq 18y ago
  I don't think that you should reason too much from the font somebody uses. Plenty of successful websites started out with an amateurish look and for some of them it's still a trademark.
omouse 18y ago
Uh, open source? What kind of license is it under? I can't see any COPYING or LICENSE file in the github repo.
antidaily 18y ago
I'll just use delicious, thanks.
- sam_in_nyc 18y ago
  Or Digg, Reddit, Propeller, StumbleUpon, Furl, Blinklist, Bluedot, Newsvine, Mister-wong, Mixx, Buddymarks, Jumptags, Google/Yahoo bookmarks, or 100s of others. Here's a big list: http://www.socialposter.com http://www.socialposter.com For some reason, magnolia always resonated with me as: "Hey! Look at me! I'm sooooo easy to use! And I look sooooo good! Hey! (bats eyelashes) I'm pretty, right? Your life should revolve around bookmarking! Just go to mag.nol.ia .. no, wait, mag.nolia.com ? No, it's ma.gnol.ia. Ah, here it is: ma.gnolia.com. Anyway, bookmark it!"
  - ahoyhere 18y ago
    With the irony, sadly, that it was not that easy to use and sacrificed functionality for "beauty" which was not even skin-deep. Damn amateurs.
AndrewDucker 18y ago
Dead since last year, by the looks of things.

33 points by defunkt 18y ago

ivey 18y ago

That's the spirit. Glad to see it's on GitHub, too.

Ma.gnolia 2 was launched at Gnomedex2008 in August 2008, so it's something that has been in the works for a while. Here's the video of his presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0P6cTPS8_4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0P6cTPS8_4

dcurtis 18y ago

Maybe a good idea, but they used Comic Sans for the description and that is the sign of amateur. After they lost all of their own data, I really would never trust anything with these people ever again.

alexandros 18y ago
I presume that is exactly the point. If it becomes an open, federated, distributed, open source, social bookmarking (any more buzz words?) service, you don't have to trust them with anything. Really, that is possibly the only way they could ever recover any semblance of trust.
unalone 18y ago
This is exactly what Comic Sans was made for: a brief blurb of text that's meant to look playful rather than formal. Comic Sans actually works better than Chalkboard for that purpose. Comic Sans is hated because it's overused, but don't take from that that there are no good uses. There is only one.
dpeq 18y ago
I don't think that you should reason too much from the font somebody uses. Plenty of successful websites started out with an amateurish look and for some of them it's still a trademark.

omouse 18y ago

Uh, open source? What kind of license is it under? I can't see any COPYING or LICENSE file in the github repo.

antidaily 18y ago

I'll just use delicious, thanks.

sam_in_nyc 18y ago
Or Digg, Reddit, Propeller, StumbleUpon, Furl, Blinklist, Bluedot, Newsvine, Mister-wong, Mixx, Buddymarks, Jumptags, Google/Yahoo bookmarks, or 100s of others. Here's a big list: http://www.socialposter.com http://www.socialposter.com For some reason, magnolia always resonated with me as: "Hey! Look at me! I'm sooooo easy to use! And I look sooooo good! Hey! (bats eyelashes) I'm pretty, right? Your life should revolve around bookmarking! Just go to mag.nol.ia .. no, wait, mag.nolia.com ? No, it's ma.gnol.ia. Ah, here it is: ma.gnolia.com. Anyway, bookmark it!"
- ahoyhere 18y ago
  With the irony, sadly, that it was not that easy to use and sacrificed functionality for "beauty" which was not even skin-deep. Damn amateurs.

AndrewDucker 18y ago

Dead since last year, by the looks of things.