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Welcome to My Opera StumbleUpon Team official homepage

By drlaunch. Saturday, 28. July 2007, 16:22:21

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Welcome to the official website of My Opera StumbleUpon Team!
StumbleUpon social network is becoming popular and some users asked the development of an official tool for stumbling websites, without using any third-party server.
Opera's developers are endorsing together with StumbleUpon a safe toolbar for all users, reason why a native toolbar for Opera Web Browser is under severe testing.
Once public, their releasing will occur at http://my.opera.com/suopera and at Opera's widget front page.
This website is resctricted for developers from My Opera Community. For feedback, problems and questions, you are welcome to try our Technical Support at http://my.opera.com/suhelp/about/

My Opera StumbleUpon Team

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About My Opera StumbleUpon Team

By vaz. Friday, 27. July 2007, 17:40:23

Introduction

Inspired by the growing number of requests of StumbleUpon Social Network, Melo Bichuetti ‎and DrLaunch™ started a research to develop a tool that soon would receive both ‎endorsement from Opera Software ASA and StumbleUpon, helping their customers enjoy ‎the best of both worlds.‎

The first attempt was a working-in-progress menu, which Melo Bichuetti created under the ‎Creative Commons GPL license and released only for a short time and testing purposes. Immediately after the great feedback from equally users and developers, a team from My ‎Opera Community opened a collaborative project named My Opera StumbleUpon Team.‎

Following Opera tradition in safety and standard measures, the team assigned a project that ‎would use a native technology created by Opera Software ASA, one widget, which later our ‎product engineer, Simon Houston, named as My Opera StumbleUpon Widget.‎

Working on an Opera widget demanded time and experience, and thanks to our developers, ‎you will experience the most secure way to stumble ever.‎

The team had the opportunity to collaborate in an engine, which ownership and proprietary ‎license belongs to Opera Software ASA that not only is safer, faster, improved, and reliable ‎than StumbleUpon original engine, but also will bring the best StumbleUpon experience ever ‎for you Opera Web Browser user.‎

The team

1 - software development

My Opera StumbleUpon Widget is the result of the countless hours of work by My ‎Opera StumbleUpon Team's developers:
  • Simon Houston - ‎product engineer
  • Eser Aygün
  • James Howat - lead developer in charge

    • 2 - community and business management

    Behind the scenes, handling business ‎strategy and day-to-day affairs:
  • DrLaunch™

    • 3 - website

    Our web site and graphic design are the hard work of My Opera StumbleUpon web ‎team:
  • Matt Cox
  • DrLaunch™

    • 4 - graphics designer and web applications

    Adjusting the user interface:
  • Jan Henrik Helmers - Graphics Designer at Opera Software

    • 5 - technical support

    My Opera StumbleUpon Widget questions are dutifully answered by My Opera ‎StumbleUpon technical support:
  • Alex Jonsson
  • João Eiras

    • Former members

    In addition, the following individuals have worked on the My Opera StumbleUpon ‎Team in the past but have since moved on to other projects:
  • Daniel Rotter
  • M. Bichuetti

    • Contributors

    Many have provided significant code ‎and many bug fixes, ideas, research to the project as well. Those listed below have ‎either written code, which is distributed with every version of our widget, have ‎identified serious bugs in the code, or both:
  • John Roberts - OpenDNS VP of Product

    • Partners

    OpenDNS donated the phishing API filter used on our widget.

    License

    My Opera StumbleUpon Widget and relatives side-projects were donated to Opera Software ASA.
    StumbleUpon and StumbleUpon Toolbar are trademarks of EBay, all right reserved.

    Special Thanks

    Several colleagues in the My Opera Community merit special thanks. These include‎:
  • Espen André Øverdahl - My Opera Community Manager
  • Robert Dreamcore - Toolbarless Stumbleupon

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