The Internet has been set ablaze once again with news from Google, like the release of Chrome, the recent announcement of the Google Chrome OS has become a trending topic in technology blogs and websites. Looking at their past web applications as well as their future release of their OS, it is apparent that being the web ‘giant’, Google is looking to take your entire computer usage online to rule over every aspect of computer usage, and I think they’ve executed the plan intelligently.
However, Google is not the only company looking to do this, the connectivity and convenience that this perspective (not to mention the audience interested in this platform which could be eventually monetized) provides, have attracted other ‘wandering’ companies, other small scale services have launched built on the same idea, we recently introduced popular browser addon Xmarks which synchronizes all your bookmarks and password details on your browser online.
With the browser wars heating up again, Opera has turned towards implementing this ‘online shift’ with their latest Opera Unite project. However the difference is, Opera is not looking to synchronize or upload your files online. They are looking to turn your local server into a web server where the Internet could be used to directly access your local server wherever you are.
Opera Unite lets you share files, photos, notes, media or anything for that matter. Different applets let you manage different types of files, it also allows you to host websites on your local computer.With the sharability and the ‘lounge’ to communicate with other Unite users they are probably looking to make users of the browser more connected thus increasing community which would in turn eventually help it to grab more browser share. All these features are performed from within the browser.
The base of the project being basic peer to peer technology which has been around for quite a while and used to share files (illegally) like the Gnutella and BitTorrent networks for example. It also lets you control information stored on your local computer wherever you are. With the ‘Document Courier’ service, you can transfer documents to your local disk as long as you are connected to the internet anywhere.
Opera Unite is currently part of their latest beta build (version 10) and part of Opera Labs.
You can view an introductory post to Opera 10 (Opera Unite), Opera’ Vision with this project and download the latest build here.
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You also forget to mention that there will be an SDK to develope Opera Unite services using the Opera Unite Framework.
Between that and their widgets its really starting to sound like extentions.
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Yeah, the widgets have always been pretty much a different name opera used for extensions, and thanks for that info on Unite!
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Now this is really interesting. Now we will not have to buy high data storage hard drives, we could just use this service from Opera to keep our files on the net, on someone else’s server.
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