Ma.gnolia on Facebook’s platform

From talking with the Ma.gnolia guys I know they were over working on getting Ma.gnolia on the Facebook platform, so it’s neat to see this over on Mashable.

“Ma.gnolia’s social bookmarking app built on Facebook’s platform lets member’s latest bookmarks be available for friends to see. The links will be provided for other Facebook members that have also added the Ma.gnolia application. This is obviously an easier way to see what your friends have bookmarked, as it’s displayed within Facebook’s larger community, offering additional info like ratings and tags.”

Great to see. With all the friends I have, including the tech savvy ones, I have yet to see any of them adopt social bookmarking so it will be interesting to see how this plays out. I think a real purpose will have to be identified. I use it because of how much information I view all the time and wanting to reference things later. For more casual surfing and web usage, I imagine it would come more from the enjoyment of sharing or discovery.

I hope to see Ma.gnolia’s growth aided in the application by something like making invites of new users very easy (kind of how Flixster does it) or by integrating the ability to notify a friend of a particular bookmark that might interest them, etc.