1. A Delicious Tale What 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 earliest blogs on the web, called Memepool in 1998. Schacter used the Memepool link database as the foundation for a stand-alone bookmark website called del.icio.us, released in 2003. He left his day job to work full time on del.icio.us in April 2005. By December 2005, del.icio.us was acquired by Yahoo…

4. Steve Schachter started one of the earliest blogs on the web, called Memepool in 1998. Schacter used the Memepool link database as the foundation for a stand-alone bookmark website called del.icio.us, released in 2003. He left his day job to work full time on del.icio.us in April 2005. By December 2005, del.icio.us was acquired by Yahoo…

7. Delicious introduced the term “Social Bookmarking” Not the first online, collaborative bookmark service – but the most successful ASP – Application Service Provider SaaS – Software as a Service Cloud Application ! Cloud Hosting

8. Dec 16 – Yahoo Slide leaked Delicious listed as a service to be “Sunset” Dec 17 – Yahoo “clarifies” – they intend to sell Delicious

10. 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 was huge for me – and made me very worried What To Do? Find a Replacement

15. Moving to Diigo was painless Why was this so easy? Delicious has an API and speaks in friendly data dialects like RSS, JSON and ATOM Diigo has a Delicious import tool The functionality of social bookmarking has a field of many competitors

19. You can take your data

20. Friendly API to get data

21. Lots of competitors

25. You are locked into their system

26. No API or Non-Useful API