Friday, 30. March 2007, 23:18:21
Some people have urged me to write something about what I'm up to in here. So here we go...
After leaving Opera, I worked on some business ideas with some friends of mine. Particularly one was quite interesting, and I still believe we could take that forward, but it was kind of ahead of its time.
I spent a lot of time in the mountains, planning, finding out what I wanted to do. Figured I wanted to move away, go to the US or the UK. Ended up with getting offers from 3 UK companies, 1 Norwegian and 2 US companies in a couple of weeks. There was one particular company that I felt shared my vision as to how communities would evolve and that I felt I could feel particularly good about joining, so I went for it. Found a flat here in London with two days to do it in and moved over. Haven't regretted it for one day!
The most major difference from life back in Norway is that you're expected to prove yourself over here, while in Norway, you have the Jante law. I really never believed it was such an accurate description of working in Norway until I left the country. It's kind of scary, actually.
Attended the London BBC Innovation Labs last week, had a nice time and met quite a few interesting people. Also, we got commissioned to have a look at visual moderation, particularly for the CBBC.
Good times!
Thursday, 23. March 2006, 02:15:13
Last week, I left my position at Opera to do something else
My hopes for the Community are high, and I hope and believe the people left behind will be able to support it in a great way.
Have a nice time, everyone!
Stephan
Friday, 10. February 2006, 16:06:03
Opera Community now supports downloading your albums to iPhoto or your favorite RSS/Photocast reader
Screenshot from Jesper:
Tuesday, 7. February 2006, 15:01:45
Community, MyDev, Speed
Lately, we've been introducing some speed improvements to the Opera Community code. So, if you're experiencing any problems with this, or just want to comment on areas that are still slow, please send a comment
Sunday, 1. January 2006, 01:57:09
Having some time off here up in Aalesund and enjoying it
Just want to wish all of you a very happy new year.
Have fun!
Monday, 19. December 2005, 17:24:55
So I go to Yahoo to check out if they're up to something cool, and decide to try and create an account over there to test if they've changed that somehow. I then tried to actually come up with a usable username. After giving up (as all are taken, it seems, and I refuse to be stephan5868), I started getting silly.
These usernames ALL are registered with Yahoo!:
doggod, goddog, kingofdogs, killme, mekill, killyou, randomnick, nickrandom, ihateyahoo, anyusernameplease, justgetone, thissucks, howdifficultcanthisbe, yesnomaybe, maybenotyes, iamstupid, ineedsugar, usernamenow, oldusername, newusername, sandwich, coldsandwich, evilsandwich, foohoo, hoofoo, footoo, ftak, gurgle, catchasingdog... swimmingegg
Friday, 16. December 2005, 10:33:17
Wednesday, 16. November 2005, 11:52:22
Just thought I'd point those of you that haven't noticed already to
SerbianFighter's introduction to how to customize your Opera Community pages! (Great work!)
http://my.opera.com/WhyOpera/blog/show.dml/66554
Thursday, 10. November 2005, 16:10:27
Community, MyDev, Features
If you go to your blog or album settings, you may now specify that your blog or album should be available for commenting for not-logged-in users. They'll be asked for a name to go with their comment.
Enjoy!
Wednesday, 9. November 2005, 16:13:17
MyDev, Stability, Community, Features
E-mail notifications for comments to your blog entries FINALLY works. Edit your blog settings to enable this feature.
Note: You need to enable this even if you have done so previously.
Enjoy!
Wednesday, 9. November 2005, 15:17:50
Community, Stability, MyDev
Due to some changes in server behaviour on Blogger's side, they didn't work for a while. This was really something we should have expected, sorry about that.
However, I now fixed this so that it will work again!
Enjoy!
Wednesday, 2. November 2005, 13:35:17
Community, MyDev, Features
You may now see who commented on your blog + photo album pictures in a special "News" page available through a link at the top of your pages
Enjoy!
Friday, 28. October 2005, 13:32:18
Community, TechPreview, MyDev
I just completed a small demo of a new feature. This allows you to enter a username from any user's page and see how the two users relate with regards to the Friend network.
For example, if A is a friend of mine and B is a friend of A, I get the path "stephan => A => B", telling me the shortest connection between me and B.
You can try this out by testing
http://my.opera.com/username/demo/network.plWhere you replace username with any username in the community.
E.g.:
http://my.opera.com/stephan/demo/network.plAny good ideas as to how to integrate this into the community are very much welcome.
(Oh, and this is not the feature I mentioned yesterday. That one is delayed till next week)
Enjoy!
Thursday, 27. October 2005, 16:05:11
Community, MyDev
We've been updating a lot of the community with bug fixes and some extra functionality lately.
Today, you can see the most recently commented blog entries on the community blog page. Tomorrow something else new.
Challenge: Name the number one thing you want to get fixed, and I'll reply. Tomorrow.
Enjoy!
Tuesday, 25. October 2005, 09:42:37
Community, Stability, Weather
October 25. Snow. Sigh.
October 24. Problems with MyOpera's storage space took down the servers. Sorry about that. We're now running on a backup solution and will make sure everything is fine before going back onto the normal one. We're very sorry, but these are problems that were really out of our control
Wednesday, 19. October 2005, 14:13:54
Community, MyDev, Stability
We added some further optimizations to the Opera Community backend today. These should hopefully increase speed and reliability for all users.
Enjoy!
Tuesday, 18. October 2005, 15:34:22
Albums, MyDev, Community
And tag the images, too, in the photo album upload images screen!
Enjoy!
Monday, 17. October 2005, 13:35:34
MyDev, Albums, Community
I just added some code to the site to allow you to rotate images in your albums
It will rotate the image by 90 degrees each time you click the "rotate" button.
Enjoy!
Tuesday, 4. October 2005, 20:52:19
Since some of you thought I was away still, I thought I'd write a couple of lines.
Today, I've been working on the blog and album front pages. I know there are still some issues there, which we'll likely resolve tomorrow. But they should be MUCH faster.
If you don't mind, please let me know of any pages that run slowly by adding a comment to this blog entry! Include how long they take to load and on what connection. Also, any remaining vital bugs (as in that things don't work at all, not minor glitches).
Stephan. In Oslo. Signing off.
(It's 10.40pm over here)
Thursday, 15. September 2005, 01:18:14
Aalesund
Added some pictures from my home town of Aalesund in my Photo Album! Enjoy
Stephan (enjoying some days away from Opera)
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