Ranting in the dark

Well, last night the Link service dinged. One hundred thousand users. Nice round number, for a few months of accumulating Beta users. The official Opera Mini release also brought that number higher. You see - turns out people are interested to try that whole bookmark thing.

It appears that it goes pretty fine. I'm feeling pretty comfortable using it myself. I didn't use to use bookmarks at all and don't even start me on the whole "social bookmarking" story - I wouldn't be interested still. But now I've got a considerable amount of bookmarks accumulated and it's pretty sweet to open them seamlessly on my mobile phone as well.

So there it is - a good start. If we can get 100k users to try it out at least once, with only bookmarks, speed-dials and some bugs here and there, that's what I'd call it. Which is pretty cool when you think about it. Because I've tried to present to you what Opera Link is all about, in a previous post, and it's not bookmark synchronization. That's a start allright - and a good one at that. But we're working on more and have to tell you - I'm pretty excited about some of the things that are just taking shape now. I hope people will get to see them soon and enjoy them as much as we will.

So cheers guys - to everyone that tried out the alphas, the betas, the weekly builds and official releases. To everyone that gave their ideas (oh, worry not they're not wasted or forgotten), to everyone that complained, everyone that posted a bug report, everyone that trusted me a bookmarks file for debugging purposes, and everyone that signed up to give it a shot at least once. That's all of us - the 100 474 users, right now.