Opera Unite – a unique webservice
Today Opera a browser company released, a new kind of product ” Opera Unite”, which resides itself in Opera browser. It changes the traditional client server model and you are allowed to share and distribute your content with out the need of any third party hardware and software.
Opera Unite makes serving data as simple and easy as browsing the Web. For consumers, Opera Unite services give greater control of private data and make it easy to share data with any device equipped with a modern Web browser.
- Opera Press release
This product will work where ever the Opera browser work( Windows, Linux, Mac etc.). This service runs with Opera browser but it can be accessed by any browser from anywhere.
Opera already released few services which works with current version of Opera Unite viz. File Sharing,Photo Sharing, Chat and a Web server. According to Opera you can create your website in HTML, CSS, JS, SVG and AJAX and host on your own computer, there are no words about PHP and other dynamic scripts. Opera is also providing API so that developers can write their own flavour.
Is this will be something like upcoming Google Wave ? Which also claims to run in real time.
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