Last week, we revealed that Opera had introduced Opera 10 beta and that they were promising to “reinvent the web.” This morning we got a peek at what they meant.
Opera Unite is basically a technology that converts every computer running the Opera browser into an actual web server.
You can use Opera Unite to share documents, music, or photos, use it to run websites or even chat rooms without any third-party requirements whatsoever.
The company has also extended the technology to Opera Unite Services, a platform that uses a series of APIs, encouraging developers to create their own applications. The framework also directly connects users’ personal computers, regardless of the operating system that they’re running and without the need for any additional software.
From their blog:
“Currently, most of us contribute content to the Web (for example by putting our personal information on social networking sites, uploading photos to Flickr, or maybe publishing blog posts), but we don’t contribute to its fabric — the underlying infrastructure that defines the online landscape that we inhabit.
Our computers are only dumb terminals connected to other computers (meaning servers) owned by other people — such as large corporations — who we depend upon to host our words, thoughts, and images. We depend on them to do it well and with our best interests at heart. We place our trust in these third parties, and we hope for the best, but as long as our own computers are not first class citizens on the Web, we are merely tenants, and hosting companies are the landlords of the Internet.”
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