Comments on: Thoughts on Opera Unite

By: Gantavya

Gantavya — Tue, 25 May 2010 05:13:27 +0000

I found Opera to be faster than any of those browsers out there. The idea of sharing ur stuffs from ur computer sounds cool to me. Its also super easy to setup. I have tried google buzz and its quite lame. One good thing about Opera Unite is that I don’t have to upload anything and wait for it to complete either. I believe Opera Unite is best way to share your stuffs with the friends u want. Google wave compares nothing to it. I am not against any company but I feel this when I compare Opera Unite and Google Wave.

By: almost effortless » Weekly Digest, 6-22-09

almost effortless » Weekly Digest, 6-22-09 — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:51:22 +0000

[...] Thoughts on Opera Unite Opera’s CEO Jon von Tetzchner claims that “Opera Unite now decentralizes and democratizes the cloud." I call bullshit. Opera Unite does indeed rely on a P2P-like network to function, but the big problem is that you must push all your traffic through Opera’s proxy service. [...]

By: digigenocide

digigenocide — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:39:34 +0000

I really dont see how opera’s trying to take on services like facebook, flicker, etc with UNITE. Unite really doesnt fit that bill. Unite is more of an attack on hardware like the pogoplug, basically giving u an easy to set up server for you files using what u already have. I only wish there were some better apps for it. the only ones that are of any use are the Media Player, Stream video, and the File sharing. Only big down side is Unite closes when opera closes.So Opera has to running all the time

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:01:20 +0000

Couldn’t agree less. While you criticise social networking, you still seem to think it has some value and some serious uses. Personally, I have zero interest in Twitter, Facebook and all the other brainless manifestations of social networking. They provide people with nothing to say the space to say it anyway, sometimes at considerable length. Why the hell should I be interested in whether or not some dim American teenager went to the bowling alley last night or what pets he or she owns? Most of the content is utterly, crushingly BORING! I would never entrust anything whatsoever to cloud computing because I am EXTREMELY concerned about safety and privacy. As for Google Wave – why should I actively volunteer to risk identity theft?

Unite looks like a simple, very accessible way to share EXACTLY what you want to share, no more and no less. It appears to be as safe as anything can be in this dangerous age. It just might make some users actually THINK about what they want to share. There isn’t much in the way of thinking about on social networks. I think your vented spleen has made me MORE likely to use Unite. Perhaps you’re one of these people who think IE is a browser rather than a dangerous virus. I would never use anything else but Opera.

By: Megadeth dude

Megadeth dude — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:57:32 +0000

Half of this article is good but half is based on wrong facts about Opera Unite, not to mention the author’s strong personal feelings against Opera.

You should feel ashamed that you have to ask yourself in public why you would need to have the option of hosting files by yourself when the corporations are doing a good job at it.

It’s the simple fact of *having* the option to host them yourself, which gives you the freedom. Freedom is choice.

Also, if a product is not open source it doesn’t mean it’s bad or evil. Who came up with this idea anyway? Take uTorrent for example. It’s just different business models. Grow up.

By: ugg

ugg — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:32:33 +0000

I think we’ll just have to wait and see who has the properly functioning crystal ball. I think you’re entirely missing the point of Dropbox, Flickr, online chat, etc. And you’re also imagining a very unlikely future in which anyone, other than a handful of nerds that already know how to run a real web server, thinks, “Ooh, I want to host web pages on my own computer!” The idea that this will become dramatically more common, rather than as quaint as growing all of your own food, is, to me, absolutely absurd.Even ignoring the fact that the idea of “your computer” is becoming less and less a big box that sits on your desk and more and more a tiny device that you have in your pocket or your bag; and ignoring the fact that we’d really like for computers, even the big ones sitting on our desk, to sleep when not in use so we don’t chew up so much power and produce so much waste; and forgetting about the fact that someone has to actually write the code for all of the magic functions to address the problems you’ve proposed Unite can solve (and for a proprietary platform that about 1% of users use); and discounting the chicken and egg problem that in order for this to be easily useful across all of your devices you have to have Opera on all of your devices. Even forgetting all of these, huge, probably insurmountable even to a company the size of Microsoft, problems, Opera Unite still doesn’t solve any big problems that really effect users.

By: Johnny Reb

Johnny Reb — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:29:14 +0000

Opera Unite has sprung forth from dumb minds.

For years, anyone could do this with any of a slew of web servers including the free Xitami, administered through the browser giving the user both an HTTP server and an FTP server.

Even a lamer could use the Microsoft Personal Web Server back in the late 1990s.

If Opera execs want to differentiate their browser, they should focus on turning the browser into a research tool. Instead the Opera Browser comes with a weak note taker.

An Opera user can’t use any of the great web clipping sites. Web clipping seems to be a crucial upcoming function.

By: fucker

fucker — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:33:22 +0000

man you are obessessed.. just use your favorite browser and shut the fuck up.. what do you mean by open source and all that shit, hell! internet explorer the devil itself is still number one in maket share. Opera firefox chrome are all good browsers and everyone of them has their strong and weak points i.e. chrome is a resources hog, while internet explorer is the most fucked browser in the universe and still number one i don’t get it the world is full of evil.

By: Tuttle

Tuttle — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:43:39 +0000

I had a look on Google Wave and it appears that no comparison are possible between Unite and Wave, they have not the same goal.
Wave is more like a web 2.0 enhanced forum, with a 4chan spirit on the dev wave :/ whereas Unite offers new way of thinking temporary application on client-side.

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:41:40 +0000

Sry, but some of your ideas are plain bs:
1) having control of your own data is very important. Just cause some teens don’t get it what they are giving away is their problem.
2) you can access unite directly without the opera proxy http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/custom-domains-opera-unite/