Yahoo has decided to close its Web service, Delicious bookmarking is triggered indignation about the intertubes angst. It follows a frenzied search for a new social bookmarking service replace the as many people which I have used for years to store and organize links to online documents that we found interesting. A second result was further successful reputation of decrease in yahoo.
But the most important result can be that ultimately this gesture, among others. the fact that the public to understand the role of the ISPs of all kinds. As recent withdrawal of the Amazon.com site Wikileaks he hosted shows, we have the vagaries of the companies that provide services, and they express more that we should be very skeptical of their commitment to longevity our data from.
We have developed our data - our Web sites, photos, bookmarks, e-mail and more - on their sites. But they can and do change their terms of service will, by what they please with what we have on their servers. And sometimes they just closed the services they provided. They may do so for the right reasons or those absurd. It does not matter. The point is, they can.
As mentioned here a few months ago, we all need a Plan B in almost everything we do online these days. If we give a point of Virginia to our communications, we invite to slow us down.
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