Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Cloud Services Graveyard

I'm compiling a list of the cloud services that I have used, which have disappeared on me, leaving me hanging in various states of out-in-the-cold.


  • Yoggie - the most painful.  Its demise left me with two paperweight firewall devices that ceased to work properly.  
  • me.com - rolled into iCloud
  • Google Reader - quite sad to see this one go.  It was a great news aggregator and very simple.  Haven't found anything yet that takes care of the same task with as much ease.
  • Live Mesh - this got rolled into Microsoft's Live/SkyDrive mess, but never had the same level of functionality or cross-platform support as before.  I was a heavy user and I miss this one.
  • Google Buzz - fortunately, only tried this one a couple times, and then hardly noticed when it went away.  Maybe I was part of the problem?
  • MSN Messenger - rolled into Skype as far as I can tell.  More amalgamation of Microsoft's various listless and directionless pet projects.
  • Latitude - this one was nice and simple and easy - a really elegant and well done google app.  Kept our family in touch nicely.  It has more or less vanished into the big vague Google+ soup and I'm not sure if I can manage to get that mess to give me what I want from this any more.    Google+ changes, grows, shrinks, and morphs so much I never know from one visit to the next what options I'll have, or even where they've been moved to.

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