Corvus Consulting

Today at Ma.gnolia, we released a great feature called Roots. Put simply, it’s a link that brings you the collective assessment of the website you’re looking at, as determined by Ma.gnolia members who’ve bookmarked that page.

Part toy, part research tool, part info-voyeurism; Roots is among the first tools to build on social bookmarking as a platform for enriching the way we use the web instead of merely supplementing it.

This is much easier to understand when see for yourself, so give the icon below a click:

As you can see, not a huge number have bookmarked this page, but with the Roots bookmarklet, you can apply this trick to any page you’re looking at, and get a quick measure of what Ma.gnolia members think. One of the best things about Roots is that you don’t have to be a member to use it, either. It just does more if you are.

Find out more and get the Roots bookmarklet and badges here. To learn more about Roots’ talented designer, Bill Lindmeier, check out his blog.