Comments on: Opera Unite: P2P in the browser with a services model

By: starkraving

starkraving — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:22:36 +0000

Even in the open web it’s cool to see how much room there is for innovation. You go, Opera!

BTW, “tenants” s/b “tenets” :p

By: RyanMorr

RyanMorr — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:16:58 +0000

I think most people by now realize that it is just a matter of time before we start booting from our browsers, essentially turning all our PC’s into small web servers. To me, this simply looks like a first step for Opera.

I won’t use it, but nevertheless, I’m interested to see where they take it from here.

By: Spocke

Spocke — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:46:33 +0000

I must say I don’t understand this concept at all. What happens when I turn of my computer for example my lap top. I guess the show is over for all of my friends, they won’t be able to see my images or access my files. So it’s much better to simply upload the photos and files to a real server like Flickr, Facebook or Dropbox since it will then always be available. I agree with the problem with privacy on social sites since some of them claims your content as their own but if no one can access your content anyway whats the point then?

By: mrclay

mrclay — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:39:44 +0000

So essentially a platform for writing extremely limited peer-to-peer apps with a single point of failure (Opera’s proxy) and no SSL? I love Opera, but I’m a little skeptical after widgets failed to give anything close to the power of FF extensions.

That said, I love Opera and someone will do surely make something really cool with Unite.

By: hdragomir

hdragomir — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:34:46 +0000

The great part is that Opera doesn’t lock you into using Opera.

You can start your unite server at home, leave your computer on, and use that server from anywhere in the world, on any cool browser you like.

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:58:01 +0000

So if I want to set up a server I set up a box with Opera on it? Can each tab be a different server?

By: ssssssssssss

ssssssssssss — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:25:53 +0000

P2P:
Is it a real P2P? UDP/TCP?
It’s great opportunity to open the protocols to public.

Web server:
Any benchmark about it?
Although I think something like Apache/nginx + mod_js will be the best solution for the server side JS, but opera’s approach is just great like what Aptana Jaxer and wxjs have done.