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Opera has released their new “revolutionary” Opera Unite. It is an interesting way of handling the sharing of services and information and probably also a quite natural extension of the browser as an platform. Now we just have to sit back and wait for some more exciting services in addition to those available in the beta release.

Here are some of the services I would like to see (Some of them might be available or not possible, I have not read the documentation fully yet):

WebDav – I would like to be able to upload and download files easily within my normal desktop tools.
HTTPS connections – I would like to be able to do this securely
A versioning system – A simple subversion implementation maybe?
Easy Backup – A way to create a backup of some of your files on a friends computer.
Easy Wiki/Blog/Portal – A simplified tool for creating a site in Opera Unite. Hopefully with RSS support (both out and in)
RSS Reader

What do you think, are there other tools you would like to see? Please leave your wishes in the comments.

Do you want to know more about how it works?

Check out these articles:
digi.no – Slik fungerer Opera Unite (in Norwegian)
digi.no – Opera flytter webserveren til nettleseren(in Norwegian)
Opera.com – An introduction to Opera Unite

Some are not that excited:
DagensIT – Operas viktigste nyskapning(in Norwegian)

7000 people wanted to see the show

Yesterday evening my girlfriend and I went to check out a stunt they tried out on top of the new Oslo Opera building. The Opera Carmen was sold out after just a few days, so they rigged up a big screen outside on the Opera roof and had a free Live show of the same concert as it was performed indoors. It turned out to be an enormous event with over 7000 people coming for a look. This was April in Norway… cold is a key word. Not everybody stuck it out for the full opera, but it was a better experience than I expected.

The first part had the most viewers. After a while the sun came and we had a magnificent view of the sunset as it set behind one of the big buildings next to the Opera, Havnelageret. (The big pink building in one of the pictures below). Some of the people nearest the traffic had some noise during the concert, but except for that the sound was pretty good.

Read more (opens in a new window): Carmen på Operataket ble en knallsuksess

Posted from Oslo, Oslo, Norway.