InfoQ: Opera Unite Gives the Power Back to the People

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Opera Unite Gives the Power Back to the People

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Opera Software, which promised to revolutionize the Internet, has just released the latest version of their browser, Opera 10 Beta 1 , incorporating a server technology called Opera Unite allowing users to directly connect to each other to share data and communicate without an intermediary running the necessary services for them.

Opera Unite is built on the premises that the Internet should be free and not controlled by anybody. Right now, most Internet activities go through various servers running specific services like email, chat, photo sharing, social networking, etc. Opera wants to change all that by building server technology inside the browser allowing users to keep all the data on their computers and sharing it from there. Lawrence Eng, a product analyst for Opera Software, explains the motivation behind Opera Unite :

Social networking is important, but who owns it — the online real estate and all the content we share on it? How much control ...

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http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/06/Opera-Unite

http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/06/Opera-Unite