Ma.gnolia is a social bookmark service, like Delicious. Magnolias group- and archive-features makes it perfect for research. I have been using Magnolia beside Delicious since it was released two years ago, as a general bookmark manager. Recently I made a new account which will serve only as a reference repository for my articles and related research projects. You can check out how it looks by visiting my Magnolia page. At the time of writing it only contains 4 bookmarks, but it will grow rapidly.
Magnolia has all features of other bookmark managers, such as rss, bookmarklets for easy bookmarking, contact making, tags with tag cloud. But the features below stands out as perfect for research.
The archiving feature
The archive feature makes it possible to freeze a web page in time. This is useful if you have a reference to a web page which later is changed or removed. Due to copyright only you can view the archive copy, but you can take a screenshot and send it to however question the reference.
The group feature
Click the thumbnail for a bigger image of the group feature. In short I can give the group a name corresponding to my project or article I am writing. I can give it a custom avatar and it has its own tag cloud. When I am saving bookmarks I get the option to save to the group directly or I can do it later. A bookmark can belong to multiple groups, but it does not have to be in a group. You can have as many groups you want and the groups can be either completly open, open for viewing but only invited users can collaborate, or it can be completly privates - as my article project i the screenshot.
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