[ale] Opera Reinvents the Internet?

[aaron]

Opera just reinvented the internet.

OK. I take that back. That's a bit overboard.
They didn't just reinvent the internet.

However, what they did just do is very close.

They just made it a totally trivial matter for everyone
on the web to become their own hosting service provider
using their own, private home based systems.

Opera Unite repackages all the common internet services
(web server, file server, media server, etc.) within
a peer to peer networking protocol.  All the services
can be managed from within an Opera browser via a simple,
user friendly interface, and then accessed from any other
standards compliant web browser on the net.

http://unite.opera.com/
http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/06/16/

Pretty mind blowing idea, IMHO.  I should be sleeping,
but I just had to share this first!

peace
aaron


PS: This item came to my attention in the latest Linux
format issue, which arrived at my home this afternoon.
I'm about 10 pages in and so far I've hit about a dozen
really useful bits of information.  I'll have to try
to share some of those other ones with y'all later. ;-)