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Web 3.0 has arrived

Monday, 23. November 2009, 08:00:00

Opera 10.10 with Unite was released today, and I'm looking forward to seeing even more weird and wonderful applications. I don't think most people understand the potential of people's computers being able to talk to each others like this, but I'm sure they will realize sooner or later.

Ok, so calling it "Web 3.0" might seem a bit cheesy, but again, Opera Unite does mean that devices can start talking to each other instead of just being "passive" members of the Web.

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Opera Unite powered BitTorrent tracker

Friday, 26. June 2009, 10:47:37

bittorrent, opera, unite

It looks like someone has started work on a BitTorrent tracker running as a Unite service. The creator now needs help to find bugs, which is why he made a public announcement about it.

You can find the tracker's homepage at Google Code.

I'm pretty amazed by this service, and I really can't wait to see what kind of Unite services other people can come up with.

Not knowing much about the specifics of this service, I wonder if it would be possible to create a network of "decentralized" BitTorrent trackers for redundancy purposes. Since a Unite service is easy to set up, just about anyone could run a BitTorrent tracker, and if several of them connected in a network of "trusted" trackers continuously mirroring each other, there would always be a tracker available even if someone disconnects a computer running the tracker.

Time will tell how far Unite can take things, I guess.

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Official Opera Unite blog

Monday, 22. June 2009, 16:28:02

opera, blog, unite

The Opera Unite team now has an official blog. If you don't want to miss out on Unite related information, head over there and subscribe.

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In 2007, Opera Unite powered RC cars

Friday, 19. June 2009, 02:32:51

opera, hackathon, cars, unite

You know that "best internet experience on any device" thing Opera has going?

In late 2007, a semi-annual seminar took place at a secret location. And what do you do with a place filled with Opera engineers? You have geeky competitions using Opera technology, of course.

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How Opera became a big company and started crushing dreams

Thursday, 18. June 2009, 16:41:45

opera, competition, tonido, unite

I'm used to Opera being a small company (although with around 700 employees, we are perhaps not "small" anymore?) which always has to keep fighting to be heard in a world dominated by huge corporations that basically own everyone's attention. I'm also used to seeing these giants enter the same markets as Opera, and wondering if they will really care as much about browsers and an open Web as we do.

Well, now I guess I can put things in perspective.

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Opera Unite Web server benchmark

Thursday, 18. June 2009, 12:29:24

opera, unitehowto, benchmark, unite

If you are wondering how the Web server in Unite performs, our friend over at unitehowto.com has benchmarked it.

His benchmarks show that Opera Unite can do up to "impressive 800 requests per second" on decent hardware, and even with dynamic content. You also can't DDoS a person via Opera Unite. He also says that Opera Unite uses "very smart file I/O", and that even if you save data to file, you can push out 744 requests per second.

As a comparison, PHP+Apache+MySQL is almost 2 times faster, nginx (one of the fastest servers available) is only 5 times faster, and the MadFish WebToolkit ("compiled raw C++") Web server is only 6 times faster.

Still, he concludes, Unite beats them both at ease of use.

Read more: Opera Unite benchmark @ unitehowto.com

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Opera Unite development howto

Wednesday, 17. June 2009, 23:12:05

unitehowto, howto, opera, development ...

Opera Unite hasn't even been out for two days yet, and someone has already set up a development howto site. That's what I call fast!

The site has lots of detailed information and specific examples of how you do various things. Perhaps the site can complement the official Unite developer documentation for budding Unite developers.

I'll definitely be keeping an eye on it.

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Responding to Unite misconceptions

Wednesday, 17. June 2009, 10:32:14

blogging, opera, media, fud ...

Lawrence has responded to a critical blog post on Opera Unite by Chris Messina, member of the DiSo Project (which is apparently a competitor to Unite?), which gets quite a few things wrong. Lawrence sets out to clarify the vision behind Unite, and also corrects a few mistakes.

It was also posted in Mr. Messina's blog, but was held for moderation and has not yet appeared.

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Opera Unite Terms of Service updated

Tuesday, 16. June 2009, 09:49:15

unite, tos, opera

Looks like the Terms of Service hadn't been updated for Unite, but that has been fixed now.

There was some confusion about the part that talked about "uploading content to Opera's site", and people were worried that using Unite would mean that Opera owns all your data. With Unite, you aren't uploading your data to anyone's site, but I can understand why people got confused.

So now, the Terms of Service explicitly mention Opera Unite:

For the avoidance of doubt, this clause does not apply to the files you share as an End-User of the Opera Unite, as such files are never uploaded to Opera’s site. Opera will not make a claim to own or use those files.

That should hopefully people's minds at ease.

Remember that with Unite, you are in control of your own data.

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