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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:00:21 AM

Share your Unite Dreams

We love the Web with all its services and applications - but shouldn't you be able to control your own stuff sometimes?

What if you could share your pictures and your music directly with your friends without having to rely on others?

We think we got the perfect solution for you: Opera Unite.

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Last night I went to a party. Since Opera Unite was running at home I could easily stream my music from it. Awesome.

I shared my photos with Unite without having to upload all of them to the Web. File sharing is probably the main Unite app for me.

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Tamil # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:01:13 AM

(150)

Kyle Bakerkyleabaker # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:02:17 AM

JoyJoYsTaRs # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:03:33 AM

sweet!

Krishnankrishnan # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:04:43 AM

Febrescio Santourassantouras # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:05:23 AM

Dacotah # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:06:55 AM

hmmm......

Tri M. NguyenTriMN # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:07:44 AM

SovGVD # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:09:44 AM

awesome!

fuzzymuzzy # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:12:19 AM

I love it!

Pallab DeIndyan # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:12:31 AM

Awesome. Writing about this rite now on my blog.

scaRFhogg # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:13:11 AM

dapxin # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:16:40 AM

well done Opera; Whats next?

Ahmed GhanemAhmedGhanem # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:18:28 AM

Wop! this could be like coding the next p2p protocol!!

Jacek JędrzejewskieXtremo # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:24:22 AM

I can't log in! My account name contains underscore :\ that SUX!

-demiphonic # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:35:52 AM

sounds cool

eduardoxxx # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:39:46 AM

Impresionante. La verdad que tiene un potencial terrible.

Cleanclean # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:42:37 AM

Opera innovates once again!

So much to take in - so many possibilities!

Anyone else feel like they've finally joined the 21st century?

klemenes # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:53:26 AM

it's very cool

FredronaldCentman # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:54:25 AM

Alrite am in

Jacek JędrzejewskieXtremo # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:00:56 AM

Ok, I have changed my account name to eXtremo. Now works fine.

zuklinax # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:07:22 AM

yeah! you rock!

shiyon # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:11:17 AM

great!!
the real browser..
browse anything.. from anywhere!!
jai O!!

Al Garciaalgarcia # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:12:20 AM

wow this is awesome, mostly for the music, i didnt expect Opera to play the file but to load on the OSs default player instead, this is awesome! It makes me want to have a dedicated PC just for this!

Madiseestlane # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:13:11 AM

Anyone willing to test?

http://vortex.eestlane.operaunite.com/the_lounge/lounge.html

mistressEVILmissevilat # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:15:16 AM

I do not have time to comment, checking everything and trying things out! ;o

Manny CalaveraMannyCalavera # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:17:50 AM

So.....freaking.....cool.....

Jerzjerz # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:18:06 AM

New features are awesome! Great job!

EugeneEugenemal # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:22:33 AM

YES...

ericwarnke # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:23:52 AM

Feels like you're presenting a solution without a problem. What are you trying to accomplish other than "uniting" people? lol.

Madiseestlane # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:27:57 AM

How long has Opera developed it already? Seems a LOT of work. Getting the service to run in all the OSes etc.

btw, don't open the same chat in two tabs as you cannot see your own content in both of them.

Stevesgunhouse # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:35:31 AM

Do you have an online photo album? Why host your photos on Flickr when you can host them on your own machine?

Okay, probably not useful if you have dialup or a mobile system - the computer and its network connection have to be on. But if you do have always-on broadband, why use Flickr's computer?

Ezequiel AristanEzeAris # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:39:00 AM

WOW, now i have 2 servers running

. This is great! Now, if i wanna show to someone my photos, i just have to download Opera in his PC

ManuBluetoth # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:39:47 AM

AMAZING!!!

dirkthetomster # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:54:34 AM

first impression ... very cool !!! very opera-like !!!
and very very very my.opera-like ... will try this evening ...

Øzikzakatak # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:56:27 AM

checking the hype

Zafer ARICANarican # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:57:23 AM

Very cool feature!
Btw, I like the logo. Maybe, opera will change its logo to this one when the unite becomes popular.

Ariesptnariesptn # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:57:35 AM

andyarmchaircritic # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:03:46 AM

HEY !

Anyone here watch current TV or visit Current.com?

I've added Opera Unite as a clip! Go and vote it up people!!

http://current.com/items/90209733_opera-unite-unveiled-reinventing-the-web.htm

Krishnankrishnan # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:06:51 AM

awesome.....

This is amazing, Tested all the services

Photo sharing, clarity is little low, every thing other than that is fine

Engr. PaRmInDeR MaNgAtparmindermangat # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:08:22 AM

Fantastic.

Hein Torezyph # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:09:11 AM

Originally posted by EzeAris:

WOW, now i have 2 servers running . This is great! Now, if i wanna show to someone my photos, i just have to download Opera in his PC

Unite can be accessed from any device — it's just the server part that requires Opera.

How do I change my username? MyOpera FAQ tells me they don't do it anymore, but is there still a way?

Jacek JędrzejewskieXtremo # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:11:01 AM

zyph: opera link logging in panel showed me a button to change my nickname because it contained illegal character (_), dunno what about correct nicks.

it is located here:
http://my.opera.com/community/rename-user/
but it now says my nickname is correct and I can't change it, so you propably won't be able to do that.

EksiSozluk # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:15:22 AM

i love this UNİTE

i love OPERAAAAA !!!!

just amazing, thx alll !!!

Felix Pleşoianuclaudeb # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:21:00 AM

The concept of P2P social networking, where every participant keeps their own data on their own machines, is particularly appealing. I've been dreaming of something like this for a long time. Unfortunately, Opera Unite falls short of furfilling that dream. You still have to get through Opera's proxy, with an Opera browser, and make an Opera account. Where's the promised freedom? If my friends have to make Opera accounts anyway, I'll just invite them over to My Opera. It's a lot less complicated, and they can keep using their favorite browsers.

mafhperlim # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:26:50 AM

Google Wave?!

Johan Borgborg # Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:26:52 AM

Originally posted by claudeb:

Where's the promised freedom? If my friends have to make Opera accounts anyway, I'll just invite them over to My Opera. It's a lot less complicated, and they can keep using their favorite browsers.

Your friends can visit your content, streamed from your machine, with any browser they like without being My Opera members.

Opera will try to open a port directly to your computer (with UPnP) and services are able to use this port for direct download of content, completely bypassing the proxy when possible. We will give more examples of this in the days to come, stay tuned!