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Member of the Week

Member of the Week

Some are happy blogging away on My Opera. Some find other aspects of our humble community service more interesting. :smile: This week's spotlight shines of our most active Lounge members. :yes: With more than 9000 forum posts since she became a member we know many of you will recognize this community superstar! :star:

She also proves that South Africa has more than just scary lions to offer.

Give a big round of applause to Marike! :cheers:

Did you notice?

Opera 10 icon

With the release of Opera 10 RC many of you were taken by surprise that Opera now has a new icon! We updated the favicon on My Opera and the banners and buttons section as well. :happy:

We hope you like the new Opera icon. :yes:

The Adventures of Odd & Even

Odd & Even Johansen

Help us find the world's slowest connection

Meet Odd & Even, two brothers from a family with good strong packing traditions. Their grandfather once packed himself into a bucket. That's pretty good packing. The Johansen brothers have been hired by Opera to help pack Web pages down so they can get into your computer faster.

They're on a mission to fix the world's slowest connection! That's right. The two brothers are packing heat and getting ready to hit any spot, anytime! They need your help to locate the world's slowest connection and fix it.

How!?

Odd & Even are monitoring the forums and ready to go and they rely on you. Starting today - ending September 1st - they're looking for a place (anywhere in the world) with a really slow Internet connection to fix. Do you know a place with a slow Internet connection? If so, let them know in the forums and you might get a visit from the famous duo!

Good luck and may the slowest place win!

Invite your friends!

Invite your friends

Good news, everybody! You can now easily invite friends from services such as Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail, Windows Live and more. :cool:

To do this click on "My page" and "Invite friends". Enter your e-mail username and password and click on "Import contacts". You will see a list of contacts you can invite and at the very bottom you can immediately connect with friends who already are My Opera users. :yes:

Member of the Week

Telperion

Oslo, Norway. Not only the home of Opera, but also of this week's member of the week! A self proclaimed nerd studying to become a Chemist and she even styled her blog to prove it!

She's a happy gamer with experiences ranging from World of Warcraft to protecting her garden from zombies! :yikes:

Her latest achievement was to give birth to My Opera's youngest member ever! The recently born Elea was a member since March 2009, although she was born last Friday :hat:

With her new camera we are sure we have a lot of awesome pictures coming our way soon, but for now enjoy the latest pictures added to the baby blog:

Elea

Congratulations from the entire community Telperion! Good luck and keep us posted on the progress of your baby!

One Week Warning

Online Writer Internship contest

Just one week left of round one!

The Online Writers Competition is well under way. We have a lot of good submissions and have approved the best of them. With the prize being a fully paid internship in Oslo, Norway for Opera, we want you to apply!

The perfect candidate has the ability to explain complex technology in simple terms, possibly with a humorous and light touch. Your background is not important as long as you have strong English writing skills.

How to join

To join the competition you need to write an article in 400 words about innovation in technology, you also have to include at least one Opera browser innovation in the article.

Check out the internship competition on the following page:

http://my.opera.com/community/competition/internship/

Good luck!