Steve Schachter created the Memepool blog in 1998 which later became the foundation for his bookmarking website del.icio.us launched in 2003. He left his day job to work on del.icio.us full-time in 2005. By the end of 2005, del.icio.us was acquired by Yahoo. The document discusses how del.icio.us introduced the concept of social bookmarking and details the author's experience using del.icio.us until Yahoo announced plans to shut it down. It also explains how easily the author was able to transition bookmarks to the alternative service Diigo due to del.icio.us having open APIs and data formats.

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 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 successfulASP – Application Service ProviderSaaS – Software as a ServiceCloud Application! Cloud Hosting

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

10. I use Delicious – a lotI use it at a link repositoryI generate auto-posts from itI use it as a “Filtered Browser History”The news that Delicious was being Sunset was huge for me – and made me very worriedWhat To Do? Find a Replacement

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

18. Living the Cloud City DreamYou own your data

19. You can take your data

20. Friendly API to get data

21. Lots of competitors

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