Comments on: Opera Will Reinvent The Internet On June 16

By: Opera Unite – are browsers out of feature ideas? | Rarst.net

Opera Unite – are browsers out of feature ideas? | Rarst.net — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:57:16 +0000

[...] Opera had unveiled Unite service. I am amazed how some made absolutely accurate prediction while I was looking in opposite direction of cloud [...]

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:01:28 +0000

look here whiztech :) http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/16/opera-unite/

By: whiztech

whiztech — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:33:20 +0000

Its Opera Unite!!! http://unite.opera.com/

By: Dropmeoff

Dropmeoff — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:33:43 +0000

My guess is that yes, it will be a cloud-based browser that takes Opera Link to the next level: we will all suply each other the web pages as we surf and store results in Opera’s self-touted “page compression” servers that it also uses for its mobile phones.

If you look at the press release for the new Opera Mobile 9.7, it mentions that the browser engine for both the mobile and the desktop browser are the same.

Your bookmarks, history, passwords, and Opera Webmail will all be in a cloud, accessible through a light Opera client.

Whatever it is, I’m sure it will be lite, fast, and synced over the Internet, which is the Opera way.

By: Seth Morris

Seth Morris — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:50:39 +0000

Great. More important software with personal information moving to remote servers I can’t control at home and my IT department can’t manage. I can’t imagine what my end-user benefit might be, but at least Opera doesn’t have to worry about handling addons or extensions, since it’s still purely a networking/HTTP-and-rendering/javascript tool instead of a productivity platform.

At least I’ll get to pay for the privelege of letting them control my updates and mine my personal and corporate click-trails, usage habits, and bookmark data, which sounds great.

And some people think Alexa, an opt-in service with a no charges, a privacy mode, clear pro-privacy policies, is evil! But Opera is the browser we geeks love to extoll–as long as we don’t have to use it!

(Posted from Opera Mobile; yes, I *do* like the browser, even if I hate the hypothetical cloud-browser
idea and I don’t think Opera is quite worth what they charge.)

(Disclosure: I used to work for Alexa, I trust the policies I have seen there, I still have friends there, and I am slightly bitter at having to tell every major anti-malware product not to remove the opt-in service–with code *I* wrote–shouldn’t be removed just to artificially up their statistics.)

By: Basel

Basel — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:52:10 +0000

Good scoop man, good one.

By: Medieval Mutt

Medieval Mutt — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:11:16 +0000

Serve static pages off your browser? Blurring the lines between client and server?

By: Steven

Steven — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:11:13 +0000

I was thinking about this idea a few days ago saying “Why not Google do this in Chome”. The idea is browser in the cloud as u exactly mentioned. let me put that in a simple way.

Browser = address bar (internet access) + search bar (engine) + bookmarks + history + passwords + rendering screen (page itself). That`s it

Google already have most of those in the cloud. so the idea of hosting all of these items included inside the browser in cloud except the rendring screen will take the browser to the cloud.

Cons: browser will become a few bytes in size – anytime synchronized – protected – easily retirve

Pros: nothing i can think of.

If this is really what Opera is gonna do then good job for them and they make my thoughts come true.

By: whiztech

whiztech — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:07:03 +0000

Wow.. this is interesting.. Opera is the best web browser during the dial-up era, and maybe today’s too.. Can’t wait to see what they’re up to..

By: Opera says “We will reinvent the web” « Coffee the Black

Opera says “We will reinvent the web” « Coffee the Black — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:41:36 +0000

[...] 들어와서 이젠 식상할 정도인데, 과연 Opera 가 계획하고 있는 건 무엇일까. ghacks.net 의 기사에서도 언급하고 있듯이, 아무래도 ‘클라우드 컴퓨팅 형태의 [...]

By: Jussinen

Jussinen — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:49:23 +0000

Opera’s twitter have been tweeting the additions each time that make up the “story”.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:38:05 +0000

web browser that is being launched locally but gets most of its data online

Sounds like every browser. :)

It’s unlikely it would be pure browser feature, otherwise we’d see hints in Opera 10 betas.

So some kind of online service or protocol (or both). Such thing can be about interaction with web pages, servers, cloud or p2p (or any combination).

On protocol – Opera is happy to push for standard protocols but not exactly known for opening own stuff.

So my educated guess is closed service that has something to do with web pages and cloud.

By: Saurabh

Saurabh — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:04:50 +0000

They are updating the message every few hours. They’ve added ” to connect them together. To share things … “