[ale] Opera Reinvents the Internet?

[Brandon Checketts]

Interesting concept I guess, but I don't see it really taking off.
>From a technical standpoint, I see several problems:

- I don't want to leave my computer on 24/7 so that my friends can
access my content

- Bandwidth issues with serving content from a home connection which
commonly has uploads capped at 384 kbps

- The promotional text doesn't make it clear if the servers operate on
standard ports.  I would hope so, but if the target market is
non-technical users, you are going to need them to enable port
forwarding on their routers, which is not trivial.  It hints that these
services us some kind of peer-to-peer protocol, but doing that limits
usage to just Opera users, meaning this will never get enough momentum
to really take off.


My take:  Shared hosting services are cheap and bypass all of these
problems and still own your own content.   You are, of course, dependent
on your hosting provider, but most of them are decent enough.




aaron wrote:
> 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. ;-)
> 
> 
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