Kevin Harrison

I gotta say, when they said they were going to revolutionize the browser today, i thought to myself what could they possibly do to opera that would make me want to use it? There can be nothing of actual use aside from the novelty of using something aside from firefox.

Oh boy, was I wrong.

Opera might actually have something, something huge. Apparently, the folks at Opera have been working tirelessly even though they are 5th in browser penetration.

Opera has integrated an actual webserver into their browser which has never been done before.

A user can configure the unite service from their browser. It's rather straight forward. Simply enable the Unite service from Opera then right click on any application that you would like to use and click start service. Currently they have a Fridge service, where users can leave little notes on a virtual fridge in the form of a virtual post-it. Along with the fridge, they have a lounge, where people can have a chat, a webserver where people can view a personal web page, and then there is basic file sharing.

The file sharing is broken into three different categories, Photo Sharing, File Sharing and a Media Player.

Talk about an easy way for everyone to share their creations.

Incase anyone is wondering what the server version is of the unite service, the webserver responds as...

200 OK
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:46:30 UTC
Server: Opera/ubuntu.kharri1073.operaunite.com
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Client-Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:46:30 GMT
Client-Peer: 213.236.208.34:80
Client-Response-Num: 1
Set-Cookie: unite-session-id=9b4736b661f85d9025507f3a; Max-Age=2073600; path=/

Leave me a message on my fridge... http://ubuntu.kharri1073.operaunite.com/fridge/