Ma.gnolia/Del.icio.us

Wh.at give.s wi.th the f.un.ky pu.n.ctua.tion? Aesthetically speaking, Magnolia has a nicer looking interface and I like the simplicity of the start page. Functionally, they are similar but I gravitate to Delicious because I’m biased—I started with Delicious, learned how to use it and now I prefer it. From that standpoint, it seems that Magnolia’s target audience is anyone new to social bookmarking. There just isn’t enough about Magnolia to warrant abandoning Delicious. With that in mind:

• Both offer fairly simple bookmarking, descriptions, tagging, etc.
• Both offer the ability to bookmark a site through your browser. In Magnolia they’re bookmark applets, or bookmarklets. I think this is ridiculous English, or ridinglish.
• Magnolia offers a unique MacOS tool to allow you to bookmark through Dashboard—cool.
• Both have prominent and useful “Help” pages. Probably a testament to how new this technology is to many people.
• Magnolia has an “Import from Delicious” tool, but not the other way around.

I’d definitely be interested to hear from folks who switched from Delicious to Magnolia—what features make it worth doing this? Both require a significant amount of time and effort to create bookmarks, networks, tags, etc. What would make one worth abandoning for the other?