1. A Delicious Tale
What the story ofDel.icio.uscan 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
5. 6. 7. Delicious introduced the term Social Bookmarking
Not the first online, collaborative bookmark service but the most successful
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8. Dec 16 Yahoo Slide leaked
Delicious listed as a service to be Sunset
Dec 17 Yahoo clarifies they intend to sell Delicious
9. 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
11. 12. 13. 14. 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
16. 17. 18. Living the Cloud City Dream

You own your data

19. You can take your data 20. Friendly API to get data 21. Lots of competitors 22. Available self-hosting