1. A Delicious TaleWhat the story of Del.icio.us can teach us about Cloud Applications.

2. Long long ago, in a galaxy far far away 3. Steve Schachter started one of the earliestblogs on the web, called Memepool in 1998. Schacter used the Memepool link databaseas the foundation for a stand-alonebookmark website called del.icio.us, releasedin 2003.He left his day job to work full time ondel.icio.us in April 2005. By December 2005, del.icio.us was acquired by Yahoo 4. Delicious introduced the term SocialBookmarking Not the first online, collaborative bookmarkservice but the most successful ASP Application Service Provider SaaS Software as a Service Cloud Application ! Cloud Hosting 5. Dec 16 Yahoo Slide leaked Delicious listed as a service to be Sunset Dec 17 Yahoo clarifies they intend to sellDelicious 6. I use Delicious a lot I use it at a link repository I generate auto-posts from it I use it as a Filtered Browser History The news that Delicious was being Sunset washuge for me and made me very worried What To Do? Find a Replacement 7. Moving to Diigo was painless Why was this so easy? Delicious has an API and speaks in friendly datadialects like RSS, JSON and ATOM Diigo has a Delicious import tool The functionality of social bookmarking has a fieldof many competitors 8. Living the Cloud City Dream You own your data You can take your data Friendly API to get data Lots of competitors Available self-hosting 9. Living the Cloud City Nightmare They own your data You are locked into their system No API or Non-Useful API No options if they change their service and you dont like it 10. Cloud Applications help by being Cheap andWeb Accessible Cloud Applications eliminate updating orpatching software (for you) Cloud Applications can be A Trap and holdyour data hostage Cloud Applications need to be robust andresilient to ensure they are available