opera unite
Opera has had great success with their mobile browsers, but when it comes to the desktop, their growth hasn’t been phenomenal, despite the fact that Opera, at times, has been the fastest and/or (arguably) the browser with most features. Today, they’re unveiling a new feature which will go live in Opera 10, that might finally give Opera the attention it deserves: Opera Unite.
The first question that comes to people’s minds is why? Why would I want to run a web server in my web browser?
Lawrence Eng, Product Analyst at Opera Software, talks about the internet’s “unfulfilled promise” of connecting people directly and letting them interact with each other without the need to play in someone else’s sandbox. Why should I have to sign up to Flickr to share photos with Jon, why should I have to install Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Talk to chat with Lisa, why is it that few corporations, who have vast monetary resources, build huge data centers and then expect us to play by their rules in their world?
The devices we use to access the internet today are merely dumb terminals that connect to servers that host the things we care about; but what exactly is wrong with that?
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