Opera Unite is in beta, and the first week of testing has been very promising. We are finally ready to invite developers to submit new Web applications. To celebrate, we will pick a deserving application each week that deserves fame, glory, honor and the developer will get a gift certificate equal the value of a Nintendo Wii or a brand new mobile phone!

Get started

To submit an Opera Unite application of your creation, simply sign in to your My Opera account and upload your work. Check out these links and recourses for more information:

• Unite articles from Dev Opera
• Unite API Library
• Develop Opera Unite applications
• Submit applications

You must be a member of My Opera to participate; membership is free and there is never a charge when using My Opera services.

There is no further action required to inform Opera. If you are lucky enough to be spotlighted, we will contact you 48 hours prior to announcing the weekly pick.

Weekly prizes galore

Prizes will be awarded each week to the developer with the best application. The winner will be determined by a team of Opera employees. Up for grabs are gift certificates to online retailers equal the value of a Nintendo Wii or a brand new mobile phone!

Weekly deadline

Every Friday.

Results

Every Monday we'll announce the best Opera Unite application of the week.

Criteria

Our panel of judges will determine the winner based on the following criteria:

• Ease of use
• Clearly defined purpose
• Standards compliant
• Good looking

You submission should not include any of the following criteria:

• Bugs
• Waste of resources
• Ugly code
• Code or content that violates any third parties rights or law

Disclaimer

Opera disclaim all liabilities and responsibilities regarding the Opera Unite applications. The participant agrees to bear all liabilities and responsibilities with regard to the Opera Unite applications submitted. The authors retain copyright of submitted applications, but the applications must either have a BSD-compatible license or be placed in the public domain.

All judges' decisions remain final.

Last week, My Opera passed 3,000,000 registered members! We've seen impressive growth so far this year, but we want more! And we've got a nice surprise in store for all of you. With your help we'd like to see if we can reach 3,500,000 members. In return we will reward the entire community with a juicy upgrade from 1 to 2 GB of storage space!

Invite your friends

The faster we reach 3,500,000 members, the faster we will give you 2 GB of storage space. Here are a few helpful tips and tricks how to spread the word:

Tell your friends to join! If they're blogging on a different site, you could try to convince them to try My Opera so you can share stories and photos with each other.

We also recommend importing your contacts. This is a powerful feature, which not only searches My Opera for existing friends, but also gives you the option to send any of your contacts an invitation to connect. You can also send a personal invitation to any of your family or friends from this page. To access this feature, make sure you are logged in and choose "Invite friends" from "My page".

Spread the word on your social networks

If you have an account on Twitter, Facebook or even Digg, you can simply click on the "Share this" button at the bottom of this post and choose to share with your social network of choice.

You can even integrate Facebook and Twitter with My Opera. From the social networks section you can have your Facebook feed and Twitter stream displayed in your activity feed. To connect with Facebook and Twitter read more on the "Social networks" section accessible from "My page" (you have to be logged in to access this feature).

My Opera buttons

We have also prepared buttons for those of you who want to promote on your blog or Web site:

Embed code:

<a href="http://my.opera.com/signup/">
<img src="http://promote.opera.com/myopera/blog.png" alt="Get your own blog!" />
</a>

Embed code:

<a href="http://my.opera.com/signup/">
<img src="http://promote.opera.com/myopera/join.png" alt="Home for all Opera fans." />
</a>

Embed code:

<a href="http://my.opera.com/signup/">
<img src="http://promote.opera.com/myopera/photos.png" alt="Share your photos!" />
</a>

Embed code:

<a href="http://my.opera.com/signup/">
<img src="http://promote.opera.com/myopera/share.png" alt="News in one place." />
</a>

Each week during the competition, three netbooks (Samsung NC20) bundled each with a Nokia N96 handset, will be awarded to the three best new Widgets entered into the Competition (on Betavine) and uploaded to the Vodafone widgets developer platform.

Even if you don’t win (or want to compete), you can still upload and feature your Widget(s) on widgets.opera.com.