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New Dev Opera articles this week

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Chris Mills is the editor of Dev Opera

We have something of an accessibility focus this week on Dev Opera, with 2 new accessibility articles:

Happy reading. :smile:

Video from Opera's photo shoot in Prague

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We are doing a photo shoot in Prague this week. These shots will be used in our upcoming autumn and winter campaigns. Check out what we managed to do after the first day...

Indosat commercial

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Take a look at this commercial from Indosat featuring Opera Mini!

The ulimate BlackBerry Cool contest

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Win a 7-day trip
To Scandinavia this summer!

BlackBerry Cool is running an Opera Mini contest where all you have to do is download Opera Mini on your BlackBerry (if you haven’t done it already). :up:

They're giving away a ton of prizes including:

  1. BodyGuardz scratch protectors for the Curve 900 and Bold.
  2. A wide variety of chargers.
  3. Otterbox cases for the Bold and 8900.
  4. Software gift cards of up to $50.

To win one of our Tier 1 prizes, just leave a comment in this post or the contest page. Tell them what you like and dislike about Opera Mini.

One lucky reader from the BlackBerry Cool community will win the Grand Prize and get to visit Oslo, Norway and visit the Opera headquarters. He or she will be accompanied by a correspondent from BlackBerry Cool, who will be writing about the experience. You’ll even get to visit Linkoping, Sweden where Opera Mini is made. :eyes:

Contest ends Friday, July 10 at noon PDT.

Only North American residents are eligible.

Visit the Black Berry Cool Web site for more information.

Social media survey

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Opera has conducted an internal survey of its employees worldwide to see how active and present they were in various social media. Basically, we talk the talk, but do we also walk the walk?

We wanted to dig deeper to see what sites and tools which were used.

Without further ado, here are the results of our social media survey.

Top social media sites

YouTube 73.0%
Wikipedia 72.7%
Facebook 68.9%
LinkedIn 59.9%
MyOpera 49.7%
RSS Feeds 31.1%
Twitter 30.8%
Digg 30.5%
Flickr 30.4%
Last.fm 20.8%
Other 18.7%
Google Video 12.1%
Nasza-klasa.pl 11.4%
Delicious 8.3%
MySpace 7.3%
Orkut 5.5%
Veoh 3.1%
MSN Space 3.1%
MetaCafe 2.8%
LiveJournal 2.4%
StumpleUpon 2.4%

Frequency of use of Social Networks, Media, and Tools

Few Times a Day 39.0%
Once a Day / Every Other Day 23.3%
Rarely 13.9%
Every So Often 11.6%
Hourly 9.2%
Never 3.1%

Purpose of use of Social Networks, Media, and Tools

Social / Community 75.8%
Content Sharing 58.9%
Research / News 55.1%
Fun / Games 35.4%
Networking / Recruiting 31.9%
Advertising / Marketing 10.2%
Dating 5.3%
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