The funnest part of this blogging stuff is coming up with corny titles, don't you think? Well, here's my cut on Delicious v. Ma.gnolia. Both seem to have all the basic functionalities needed to bookmark pages for future use. From a quick review of both services, Ma.gnolia seems to have some advantages over Delicious. First, it's easier to read. For those of use getting older, this is an issue. The layout is cleaner and less confusing, the font is larger and the colors are brighter. Delicious uses a various shades of greys and blues which, at least for me are hard to distinguish. There are also a lot of things on the page, which makes it confusing.
Ma.gnolia builds upon the social aspect of bookmarking by creating and allowing others to create groups. People in these groups share their bookmarks. While there are networks on Delicious, they are not grouped and given names with explanations of what their interests are in this same way. Because magnolia takes this type of an approach, it encourages people who do not necessarily know one another but have similar interests to join groups and share resources.
Finally, I liked the fact that Magnolia had easy access to the most popular tags and the recently tagged items. I thought at first that Delicious had a similar function, but could not find it later.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
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I thought that Magnolia and Delicious were equal in ease of use. I didn't notice the difficulty in colors or layout that you had noticed. I just thought Magnolia was prettier!
I did notice many of the other things that you did, too. I noticed the groups they created, like the hot bookmarks, hot groups, and recently viewed bookmarks sections. I also noticed the easy access to tags.
What I liked in Magnolia was the ease in which you could send a bookmark to another person. They had buttons right there that you could use. In Delicious, it was harder to do that if you were not familiar with the process. I guess once you knew what you were doing, it would be just as easy for you to send bookmarks to another person.
Its interesting however that even though you find Ma.gnolia easier to use, it is Del.icio.us that is top dog in social bookmarking. This just goes to show that for social software to be successful, it takes a combination of things such as design and usage numbers.
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