By Brian J..
Thursday, 13. April 2006, 22:19:32
games, gaming, gathering, The Gathering
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We have our little home setup here at The Gathering - a cozy little area with couches and some sweet demo machines (with PCs running widgets, presentations and a few cool devices). Chaotic sounds of thumping techno music and Counter Strike "Bomb defused" are all over - then here's our booth blaring Opera music.
We've had a lot of really bright and curious people come by interested in prizes, the Opera Browser, jobs at Opera, widgets, standards and just about anything else. Many of the people we've been talking to were the same that showed up to Chaals' presentation on Web standards.
Far away from the chaos downstairs, the auditorium was a nice break. Chaals was able to give his presentation on the importance of Web standards, his involvement with a number of organizations and how important accessibility is (and will continue to be) to the Web. He offered up a number of great examples of uses and even a few "far fetched" ones just to make sure everyone was paying attention. Afterwards, there were a bunch of questions covering a bunch of different topics. How long till it's released? Why does Opera do this?
And as abruptly as this nice little escape began, we're now back in our booth in the midst of this techno / Opera / videogame chaos. Technology is great, aint it?
By Thomas Ford.
Wednesday, 12. April 2006, 14:12:43
gathering, widgets, competition, gaming
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For all those wondering what exactly
The Gathering is like, we'll be blogging live from the show. The gates opened at 9:00 AM at the Vikingskipet Olympic Arena. Its 4:00 PM right now, and people are still pouring in.
It seems computers aren't the only de rigeur accessory. Visitors drag with them easy chairs, enough food to last several days living at a computer, sleeping bags, caffeine pills to avoid the sleeping bags and at least one wooden cabinet. We tried to get a picture of this item, but the owner pulled a Carl Lewis and evaded our hawk-eyed paparazzi. You won this time, Betty Crocker. But we're on to you.
The people are all over the place, and by place I mean this place:
The Opera booth, showing the most
bada$$ grand prize at The Gathering, is on the left side. Come swing by and say hello.
Here are two of our Web Applications team members doing what they do best...get back to work!
Competition Notes:
The competition has been on for exactly two days and we have exactly one entry! Great work
pbjorge12, you are the first one!
While the rest of you are hard at work on your widgets, keep an eye on the time. Submit as many as you like - but be sure to submit it before
4:00pm CET Saturday 15th April
By Gautam Chandna.
Wednesday, 22. March 2006, 14:58:33
widget, games, competition, gaming
We're looking for a few good widgets - and widget developers. In conjunction with
The Gathering, Opera wants you - either in the My Opera community or onsite at The Gathering - to submit your best widget. The winner receives the ultimate in high performance gaming equipment from
Digital Impuls, the leading performance-computer speciality store in Oslo, Norway.
The computer wizards at Digital Impuls worked their magic to create this system, with a retail value of almost $6,000. It's armed with AMD Athlon 64 X2 cpu 4800+, 2Gb of Mushkin
XP extreme performance memory, nVidia
Geforce 7900GTX graphics and two hard drives: a Western Digital Raptor 74GB and a Seagate 400GB Sata 2.
The system comes with the newly released 20 inch widescreen gaming display,
20WGX2 from NEC. Sound is delivered through the superb Logitech
Z5500 5.1 surround sound system. The computer casing is 100% aluminium, supplied by the award-winning
Lian Li. The system is powered through the extremely stable and powerful MIST 600W power supply.
But how to control it, you ask? We're also throwing in, courtesy of Logitech and Digital Impuls, a Logitech
G15 gaming keyboard and a Logitech
G5 laser mouse.
This is truly a machine to be reckoned with.
Now that you know what you can win, here's how you do it! It's easy:
- Make your best widget. Don't worry, we've provided lots of documentation to help you along
- Zip the widget and submit it to widgetcomp [at] opera.com
- Give us your name, your phone number and let us know if you're at The Gathering
- We will contact the winners and put up their widgets on this blog!
So what are you waiting for? Join the competition today! Work fast though, because the competition ends on Saturday at
4:00 PM CET.
Disclaimer: Opera disclaims all liabilities and responsibilities regarding the widgets submitted as part of this competition. The participant agrees to bear all liabilities and responsibilites with regard to the widgets he/she submits as part of this competition. The authors retain copyright of submitted widgets, but widgets must either have a BSD-compatible license or be placed in the public domain.
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WIDGETIZE