@conference {300486, title = {Amber: Decoupling User Data from Web Applications}, booktitle = {HotOS}, year = {2015}, address = {Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland}, abstract = {User-generated content is becoming increasingly common\ on the Web, but current web applications isolate\ their users{\textquoteright} data, enabling only restricted sharing and\ cross-service integration. We believe users should be able\ to share their data seamlessly between their applications\ and with other users. To that end, we propose Amber, an\ architecture that decouples users{\textquoteright} data from applications,\ while providing applications with powerful global queries\ to find user data. We demonstrate how multi-user applications,\ such as e-mail, can use these global queries to\ efficiently collect and monitor relevant data created by\ other users. Amber puts users in control of which applications\ they use with their data and with whom it is shared,\ and enables a new class of applications by removing the\ artificial partitioning of users{\textquoteright} data by application.}, url = {http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/amber.pdf}, author = {Tej Chajed and Jon Gjengset and Jelle van den Hooff and M. Frans Kaashoek and James Mickens and Robert Morris and Nickolai Zeldovich} }