On February 13th 2006 I moved over to ma.gnolia.com for online bookmarking, and I posted about the change and reviewed the new service. I had previously posted about and used del.icio.us which is pretty much the standard tool for online bookmarking. Ma.gnolia has generally behaved well (apart from the one hiccup) and I have enjoyed the bonus features that is offers in comparison to del.icio.us. I like the permanent links for each bookmark, I like the way it saves you pages as they were when you bookmarked them, I like the way it sometimes gives a screenshot, I like the private bookmark feature, and the groups are ok. I have however experienced a few bad points too. It is much slower than del.icio.us, mainly I suspect because of its much more done up interface. It also has recently become covered with image adverts which don’t help the loading time or the look of the page. The tag clouds are also quite frankly rubbish. There is just something wrong with the different sizes, the contrast is too poor.

I have found that the extra features tend to distract from the focus of the site, and make my bookmarking less productive. Del.icio.us has a no nonsense interface, and are there adverts? I never saw any. They have also just released private bookmarks and inline editing. So I am moving back to del.icio.us, with a slightly shorter domain this time. The import function is down for the time being so I will wait for that to go up, then I will change the sidebar and my bookmarking bookmarklet.