Opera Unite Review- No one wants to see your stupid shitty website/chatroom.
Well… Opera Unite was released this morning, and I’ve got to say, I’m sadly disappointed.
This isn’t groundbreaking web 3.0/2.0, this is a web server integrated with a web browser. Hold on, let me bust out my paper hat, and put on my celebration gear. Whooptie freekin do.
With Opera 10, we are introducing a new technology called Opera Unite, radically extending what you are able to do online. Opera Unite harnesses the power of today’s fast connections and hardware, allowing all of us to help define the future landscape of the Web, one computer at a time. Read about how Opera Unite is going to change the way we interact on the Web on labs.opera.com.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to go turning my computer into a web server anytime soon. Pointing anyone to my public IP address, through my shitty (just like the rest of residential service) router is a recipe for disaster. Granted that I have a webserver already running at home, but it’s a little different. Linux headless box, AND I KNOW SECURITY. Seems like Opera wants to turn every mindless computer user into Tech GURUS!
People are going to install, and no one is going to go to their stupid shitty website, because they have no idea how to run a stupid shitty website. They are going to use more processing power, and leave their computer on overnight, so anyone can access their stupid shitty website at any hour. Which in turn, will use more energy, which in turn will produce more pollution. Way to contribute to Global Warming, OPERA!
NOW THEN. After I got that out of the way. There is one AND ONLY ONE feature that I would actually use. For example, The Media Player. It would probably prove useful if I had access to the web @work, but couldn’t store any files on my computer. That way I could listen to all of my music, the way I want to hear it and don’t have to wait for Pandera to pop up the correct song.
Most NAS devices already support over the web File Sharing, so this feature is nothing new by a couple of years. There have been several solutions to this in the past (some free, and no so free) but who the fuck cares that it’s in the browser now?!
Fridge
A fun place for people to leave notes on your computer.
Will you write on my fridge? NO, because no one will ever see your stupid fucking site!
As this project moves along, there might be some cool “services” added onto the project that currently aren’t there. Currently, it can function as: File Sharing, (share files across the Internet) Fridge (people post comments about your crappy website), Media Player (actually kinda cool), Photo Sharing (no one wants to see your poodle doing backflips, actually I do want to see that, so if you have a picture of that, please send it to me), The Lounge (chat room, you have no friends, so it’s going to be empty all the time), Web Server (allows you to host real websites).
The groundwork is there, and maybe that’s all they wanted out of this release. I can see the potential for awesome services to be released, so only time will tell with this new shiny shit pile.
If you want to make a super shittastic website you can visit their page here.
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Ohhh man,
This was what i thought to write yesterday night .. downloaded and installed opera unite.
F**K i don’t want my computer into webserver buringin all day and night.
what were opera unite developers thinging. ohhh … “One computer at a time!!!”
well put….
Lets wait and see if opera going to release some fantastic services.
Thanks! I imagine that eventually there are going to be some pretty awesome services released for it, but it is going to take a good while to develop them.
One good thing about it, is the open source.