Ma.gnolia Data is Gone For Good

The social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia reports that all of its user data was irretrievably lost in the 30 January database crash that knocked the service offline. That means that users who were unable to recover their bookmarks through publicly available tools (including other social media sites and the Google cache) have lost all their data. Ma.gnolia founder Larry Halff said last week that the service’s MySQL database included nearly half a terabyte of data