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By: Satish Mummadi

Satish Mummadi — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:46:10 +0000

agree with Vinay.
Along with the default apps on Unite (File Sharing, WebServer, MediaServer etc which are obviously wonderful for home usage), a built in app for screen-sharing/voice-video would raise Unite’s potential for small and medium business usage.

Unite’s an old idea; but with the new machines with multi-cores, broad-band speeds; Using the computer to do some web-serving is good.

By: unknownuser

unknownuser — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:14:15 +0000

The problem is that Opera Unite doesn’t solve an existing problem: http://www.browserinsider.com/1/opera-unviels-unite

By: riverboat

riverboat — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:54:10 +0000

Out of 8 applications offered by Tonido, only two requires Tonido to be installed both the sides.

What about routing all the communication through Opera Servers. You call that as online freedom. How come?

By: vinay

vinay — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:06:59 +0000

I do see a significant value in Unite. There are not many people out there that understand what it means to run a server, and thus enable remote access to your disk. Ofcourse there are hosting sites out there (the flickrs of the world) which come in handy, but with the amount and size of content increasing faster than your average broadband speeds, you could opt for sharing your stuff on a need basis rather than uploading it always to a flickr like service. For example, you could post only a chosen handful of pictures on flickr from your vacation (for all friends to see), while use Unite to allow your family members access to all the 500 odd snaps you took.

By: phranc

phranc — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:33:23 +0000

Actually, most of the services require that both have Tonido installed. With Opera, it always works with any browser.

Sorry, Tonido doesn’t cut it.

By: heh

heh — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:31:56 +0000

“And that will be Opera’s biggest challenge — attracting developers to come up with cool applications on this service when they could be building for the iPhone, the Pre, Android or any of the other platforms out there.”

They already got lots of widgets made for them, so why not Unite?

By: Chris R

Chris R — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:57:03 +0000

I have been a fan of Opera for some time. Their browser is nice and fast, and they were the first to introduce tabbed browsing.

I definitely see potential in this. I hope it catches on.

By: riverboat

riverboat — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:57:17 +0000

Tonido did the same thing 3 months back. http://www.tonido.com. It works with all the browsers.