Eskil Sivertsen

Posts tagged with "new years"

Opera - browser company and dating service extraordinaire

Friday, 6. January 2006, 13:31:44

It struck me this morning that Opera is now in the dating service business. Dan won our NYC Times Square competition because of his cute story about having met this girl through Opera IRC. Sparks flew across cyberspace, and he wanted to win our competition so that he could meet the girl in NYC.

Not only did Opera provide the channel through which they met. We also provided the topics for their conversation (Opera). And now we are flying them to a foreign country on a holiday so they can meet. And we pay for their hotel. That's where they are now. Let's hope they're not talking about Opera anymore... And some time from now, who knows? Too bad the name Opera Mini is already taken

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You can follow the developments as they unfold in Dan's blog

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2006 - The year of the Opera!

Thursday, 5. January 2006, 14:53:03

pocket pc, opera mobile, opera mini, windows mobile ...

So it is already 2006. I know it will take me two months before I manage to adjust to writing ~~2005~~ 2006 on letters and forms. Ah well, I had a nice and relaxing time over the holidays, only interrupted by phone calls from journalists around the world curious to hear about Google acquiring Opera. Or was it Microsoft?

Our Times Square competition was received very well by everyone, and I am glad we finally got the two love birds on a plane today. You can follow the development in Dan's blog.

Lots of exciting stuff happening in 2006, folks! We have the worldwide launch of Opera Mini coming up really soon, and I am busy preparing for it. I am very excited about this as Mini has such a great potential. Really, think about it. We're bringing the full Web to some 700 million phones around the world! Almost everybody can start surfing on the phone they have today! Isn't that a mobile Web revolution?

Then there's the much awaited release of Opera for Pocket PC, which is so close now that I can smell it in the hallways here at the Opera HQs. That is a smooth-running, sexy piece of software if I ever saw one.

I would love to say more, but need to keep some secrets, too

We've really turned it up quite a few notches in home media, or what is now officially our Opera for Devices business unit. The consumer electronics market will be of increased importance to Opera in 2006, and we have already made a few announcements.

Let's make 2006 as good for each other as I think it will be for Opera!

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Honoring our users in Times Square!

Tuesday, 13. December 2005, 12:08:49

opera, new york, new years, new year's eve

It's been a great anniversary year for us, and we've been talking a lot internally about how to finish it off with a bang. We want to thank all our millions of users, because that's really why we are here. So, we've rented advertising space on the biggest outdoor screen in the world - the ABC SuperSign in Times Square, New York! And we're flying two lucky Opera users to NYC where they will attend ABC's New Year's Party! Read more about it here.