My OperaGone Fishing!
Saturday, January 24, 2004 2:06:14 AM
no, not that kind of fishing 
I like to go fishing for new opportunities for OS each Friday in hopes of landing a "big one" the next week.
Today, like last week, I am trying to lure some USB Flash companies to consider bundling/preloading the miniscule Opera Browser on board their cute little devices. Wouldn't that be such a sunny surprise to plug in a flash card into your USB and shortly after, realize that you have Opera for free? Opera happens to be one of those everyday applications that is compact enough to fit on one of these cards and not hog up the space that people need.
I can also see some neat reasons why I would want to carry a version of Opera on my keychain....instant plugin evangelism!!
Granted, some users may find this a bit pushy, but hey, everyone likes something for nothing and some of us even like suprises- so i think it might be worth a shot. I just bought one myself- this little sucker: http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/70207/wo/CO35uOSz5XYP26osMqv15RAOnE1/1.3.0.5.10.3.32.13.0 These are the handiest gadgets I have ever purchased for under 50 bucks- and the prices are falling as fast as the storage amounts are rising.
let's hope the USB flash people see some value in it for them and go for it hook, line and sinker.
On the Linux front, Christian and Jakob (from Oslo) represented Opera at Linux World this past week in NYC. Christian sounded very positive about the meetings he had and the new contacts generated in some major Linux desktop market makers.
Linus Torvalds recently said it would be 5--10 years before Linux desktop is used by the masses. That sounds like good news to me and Opera needs to start today to position itself to ride that wave from Santa Clara to ShangHai.
Well that's all for today- real long list of things to get done before the end of the day and it will most likely be a busy weekend as well.
I like to go fishing for new opportunities for OS each Friday in hopes of landing a "big one" the next week.
Today, like last week, I am trying to lure some USB Flash companies to consider bundling/preloading the miniscule Opera Browser on board their cute little devices. Wouldn't that be such a sunny surprise to plug in a flash card into your USB and shortly after, realize that you have Opera for free? Opera happens to be one of those everyday applications that is compact enough to fit on one of these cards and not hog up the space that people need.
I can also see some neat reasons why I would want to carry a version of Opera on my keychain....instant plugin evangelism!!
Granted, some users may find this a bit pushy, but hey, everyone likes something for nothing and some of us even like suprises- so i think it might be worth a shot. I just bought one myself- this little sucker: http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/70207/wo/CO35uOSz5XYP26osMqv15RAOnE1/1.3.0.5.10.3.32.13.0 These are the handiest gadgets I have ever purchased for under 50 bucks- and the prices are falling as fast as the storage amounts are rising.
let's hope the USB flash people see some value in it for them and go for it hook, line and sinker.
On the Linux front, Christian and Jakob (from Oslo) represented Opera at Linux World this past week in NYC. Christian sounded very positive about the meetings he had and the new contacts generated in some major Linux desktop market makers.
Linus Torvalds recently said it would be 5--10 years before Linux desktop is used by the masses. That sounds like good news to me and Opera needs to start today to position itself to ride that wave from Santa Clara to ShangHai.
Well that's all for today- real long list of things to get done before the end of the day and it will most likely be a busy weekend as well.
Dean KakridasOperaSinger # Saturday, January 24, 2004 2:06:14 AM