Ma.gnolia goes open-source
by jim on August 28th, 2008 
6 Comments
Social bookmarking site Ma.gnolia.com is opening its doors to the open-source world. They have announced at Gnomedex 2008 that they would soon distribute their code publicly, akin to how WordPress.com has done for WordPress.org, the latter being a website that the public can download freely the full WordPress code.
This is a much anticipated move for the Ma.gnolia.com team as developments in technology are striding faster than the Ma.gnolia core tech team can handle. With their move to open-source, we will soon see a much improved service offering. Ma.gnolia’s Larry Hallf at Gnomedex 2008 says the following:
Some of the things to look forward to in this next version include:
- A new stream view that shows you the freshest bookmarks of people you’re friends with on one single page.
- Support for both OAuth and OpenID, with the latter making it easier for people to sign into hosted builds of Magnolia.
- Sidebar customization
- Theming
The open-source version won’t be available to developers until sometime in September, with a beta version (read: consumer friendly) on track for December and into the first part of 2009. In the meantime, if you’re a developer looking to get your mitts on the code it will be made available here.
slam
It would not be correct to say:
Simply because WordPress.org was available long before WordPress.com
Yes, you are correct Ajay.
It should be rephrased to:
“Much like the symbiotic relationship of WordPress.com and WordPress.org”
thanks for sharing your keen eye mate.
cheers!
thansk
thanks
I’m sure this has already been on digg at least once this week.