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- Ads On, and Ads-OffOctober 8
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Months ago we decided to lighten up Ma.gnolia a bit by turning ads off for signed in members. We said at that point that we wouldn’t bring them back without a way to turn them off. Then we got distracted with all sorts of other stuff.
With a big part of Ma.gnolia 2 being a business model for sustaining and growing the service, we thought it wise to get an early start on subscription-based enhancements to the Ma.gnolia experience.
When you put those two ideas together, you end up with today’s announcement that ads are back on Ma.gnolia, and that you can turn them off. With a twist.
Treat Yourself, and Bring Enough to Share
The obvious question is ‘how much does it cost to turn off ads?” so let’s not dance around that. There are two choices:
- Option 1: $7.95/year.
- Option 2: $24.95/year
Why two prices? That’s the twist.
Both options remove ads from your use of Ma.gnolia, and give some extra to others.
Option 1 also removes ads for other people when they view your bookmarks, tags and profile.
Option 2 does the same as Option 1, and extends to your groups, so that ads aren’t shown to people when they visit the groups you manage.
So no matter which option you choose, you’ll be extending the benefits to others interested in what you’re doing in Ma.gnolia.
We think this offering is a 3-way win:
A win for Ma.gnolia, with
- Jumping into the StreamSeptember 26
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Since Larry announced the Ma.gnolia 2 project last month, we’ve been working on two parallel paths to get the project moving: pulling together design documents and building the first key piece of M2, inside the current version that we all use now. It’s that piece that we want to talk about today.
A key shift between Ma.gnolia 1 and 2 will be a stronger focus on the recent activity and attention of individuals and groups you like. This change is a growing trend among social web apps, and a way to make a much richer spectrum of recent activity available from a central point.
We’re building this feature now because we think it needs actual use before how it should work will be clear. To that end, next week we’ll be turning on the first version of the Ma.gnolia Stream.
To the right is a preview of what the Stream will look like; which you can of course click to get a better view.
The Stream replaces the homepage you see when you sign in, and shows what’s happening in your circle of groups and individuals: new bookmarks, groups joined, and new people followed will be the first actions shown. You’ll also see Thanks given to you f
- The Open Road AheadAugust 22
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Today at Gnomedex in Seattle, we’re kicking off a project bigger than any we’ve taken on since starting Ma.gnolia. It’s brighter than a snazzy feature, and more than a social bookmarking service. It’s going to define where Ma.gnolia is heading, in a way that makes room at the table for everyone.
Much of Ma.gnolia’s development is a balancing act between the resources of a small team and the various, and sometimes contradictory things that people look for in a social bookmarking service. As the web moves quickly, even our ideas of what a social bookmarking application can and should be have changed, but we think that we see enough of where things are heading to head there ourselves.
In the past year, Ma.gnolia has focussed on building in-roads to better models of online identity and service-to-service interaction using open standards. We’ve built on web standards, embraced microformats, pushed the envelope with OpenID and contributed to the development of OAuth. More and more, we look for ways to open Ma.gnolia to innovations and needs that we couldn’t have thought of or met on our own.
It begs the question of how open it can go?
We’re going to find out, with today’s announcement of Ma.gnolia 2, or M2 for short. M2 is a ground-up rewrite of Ma.gnolia, re-creating features we love today, taking a second run at what didn’t worked as well as planned, on a distributed, service-based architecture designed to handle the larg
- An Email Address Is A Person, Too?August 6
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One of the biggest ongoing issues with OpenID is usability to the general public. Most people just don’t identify themselves with a URL the same way they do with their email address. For as long as I’ve been aware of OpenID, there’s been an ongoing discussion about how to bridge this gap and let people use their email address as their OpenID.
Some of our members may recall the following tweet from a couple of weeks ago:
What was this about?
Recently, there’s been a grassroots effort to enable email addresses as OpenIDs using a protocol called Email Address to URL Translation (EAUT). Using EAUT, sites that let people sign in with OpenID (called relying parties) can accept email addresses in the OpenID url field, and go out to their email address provider and try to find the OpenID associated with that email address.
Additionally, a relying party can specify a fallback email address translation provider. Ma.gnolia uses one operated by Vidoo
- Welcome, New LinkersJuly 29
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Every so often we take a look at some of the new people in the Ma.gnolia community in the past few months, and try to spot some good people for the Featured Linker space. We look for people with diverse interests, who we find interesting to follow and think you might as well. Some are geeky, some are the farthest thing from it, some are in-between, but they’re all interesting in their own right, and they’re all close by in our corner of the interwebs.
We’d like to introduce some of these new people now:
Alex Hillman (dangerouslyawesome)