Chasing Dreams

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Jazzy, Bluzzy, Rappy people. All of them, I’ll make’ em giggle!

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She walked into the room with the same pinky smile on her face and she said:
- “I bubbled about 535 thoughts today! I feel great!”
- “Tell me one interesting bubbled thought”, said a muffled voice from the other corner of
the room.
- “Well…there was this girl, about 18, upset because her parents didn’t let her go on a trip to
Africa, because it was dangerous. She logged in, came to me, the Shampoo Area, wrote her troubling
thoughts there and after she pressed the “Bubble it!” button they all went away and she felt relaxed.
How was your day, Live Stream?”
- “Pretty good! I streamed the U2 concert from Hide Park and more than 1 million guys and girls
watched it sitting on their couches, enjoying the moments I brought”.

Live Stream has every reason to be happy. Since he was activated, the community
became more involved and every day they would visit his page and ask for more
live events.
- “Where is O’Radio?” Shampoo Area asked, a bit worried.
O’Radio has the habit of disappearing for days and not returning phone calls.
He thinks of himself as this slicky cool radio. He plays what the community wants
because each user has the right to enter his own choice of music in the playlist.
But today he was at home, in the other room, in front of the computer, with
earphones on.
- “What’s up dude?” said Live Stream.
- “Jazzy, Bluzzy, Rappy people. All of them, I’ll make’ em giggle!”
That’s what he always says. He repeats it every time he has the chance. O’Radio
loves his job.
- “I’m quite good, thank you. Today we scheduled the “50 rock songs you would
never forget” top and people went crazy about it. I got so many requests that
my heart and power cable almost went BOOM! Plus I got some cool red snickers
from a boutique downtown”.
And he put another song in the playlist before Live Stream could get the chance
to ask another question. In the meantime, MOVA, the Movie Area, was selecting
the newest films to present to people tomorrow. The community was beginning to
love this new thing.
In the living room Chatty Caterpillar and James the Games were spreading the word
out, posting messages on blogs, looking for people for a team game down at
Games Arena.
- “What were your results today Chatty?” said James the Games.
- “1.2 mil people logged in to chat in the last 10 hours. You?” she asked.
“Were they talking about all my great games right?”
- “You wish! People chat about more than your games” said Chatty and gave him
the dirty look.
- “Where are you and where you go? Want the weather? Let me know” said a yellow
face who just stepped into the room.

It was WeatherO, the funkiest weather tool ever who brings you the weather forecast every day. WhetherO
had his girlfriend with him, Forgetful Lizzy. It’s been almost 2 months since Lizzy didn’t forget her
dates with WeatherO anymore cause she was always calling Webstits to ask for her appointments. Webstits
is the youngest tool in the community. You can find it on your personal page and it helps you write down
events and set up alarms for them. You will never forget anything!
Meanwhile, the Developer’s Prize was giving out the monthly award for the coolest widget created by a
user in the community. The ceremony was great and the user was very happy.
Suddenly the red light flashed. This meant that a member of the community pressed the View inside
button. Sometimes, an Opera employee would come online and talk to people and that was one other purpose
for the View inside button.
- “Shhhhhhhhh, someone is watching!” said Shampoo Area.
They were all quiet and turned to face the webcam which shows what happens in the Opera headquarters. All
the guys were smiling at the user. Even O’Radio stopped and flashed his sparkly teeth.

- “Everybody come to me!” someone said. It was the administrator of the community.
- “Here are the “Top 10 list that will entertain the Opera Community” T-shirts. Everybody grab one:
Developer’s Prize, View inside, WeatherO, Webstits, Chatty Caterpillar, James the Games, MOVA, O’Radio,
Shampoo Area, Live Stream
.

For you, My Friend




Today, I thought of you.
How you were there for me and took some time to read my article and even send a word or two.

Today, I want to thank you.
For reading, for voting, for being there for me.

I wrote something on a piece of paper and scanned it so I can be closer to YOU.
Here is what it says:

"Chasing dreams is what keeps us alive, every day, day by day.
My dream is to be a part of the Opera team and today I want to say Thank You! My Friend for helping me.
Your vote got me one step closer to my dream and you have no idea how grateful I am for that.
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you"

Cristina



smile

Part 2 of the competition has begun.

Thanks to you I am a FINALIST smile
http://my.opera.com/community/blog/2009/09/01/online-writer-internship-finalists

Now I have to write an article about - "top 10" list that will entertain the My Opera community.

I must think of my article and do something good.

Talk soon!

My Opera has a new widget installed. It is MySoul!

Back in 2000

I woke up one day and I over heard this strange conversation. It was a mini clip talking to the mini skirt about a maxi situation. I got out of bed, went closer and here is what they said:
- Hey, what should we do today? Let’s do something fun! I am tired of being an old mini clip.
- Like what?
the mini skirt said and gazed at the mini clip.
- Let’s be something we have never been before!
- Like what? I have only been me all my life.
- Let’s try to become Opera. How hard can it be? We are already Mini!
- Cool idea! What do we need?
- A few things. Opera has: tabbed browsing since 1994, speed dial since 2007, saved sessions and full page zoom since 1996, pop-up blocking since 2000 and many more.
And saying that, his eyes sparkled like Christmas ornaments.
- How do we get that? It seems hard and complicated.
- I do not know yet but we will figure it out. We can be foxy. Nobody will know it is us. It is marvelous. We will be great copies able to ‘Paste and Go’ all day loooong. Just ‘Paste and Go’. Or ‘Pop-up Block’ anyone who disturbs us. Isn’t that wonderful?


I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. My mini things were having maxi problems. They all wanted to quit their being and be an Opera. After all, how hard could it be? They were already Mini. But you see, it is hard to be an Opera. You have to innovate all the time and be original. Get ahead of the game and stay there. Otherwise, you are just a copy.

This happened more than 8 years ago. Many wanna-be objects have escaped since then and became something else. Some are good, some are not-so-good browsers. But only one browser is keeping the key to my heart.
It is called OPERA.



As fast as waves hit the harbor, it loads my favorite pages. With just a simple keystroke it loads my pictures and helps me share them with my friends.
It keeps my thoughts in order and my favorite pages already loaded up when I wake up in the morning.
OPERA Unite, like a tiger in the jungle, keeps my information secured and makes it safe for me to share it with my friends.

It helped me be who I am: a reliable, efficient, innovative person.
For me, it is not just a browser.

Do you know what new widget My OPERA has installed?

It is called My SOUL.