News - Opera Unite takes a stab at cloud computing

[HEXUS]

Opera plans to "reinvent the web" by turning computers into both a client and a server.

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[b0redom]

Honestly, I can see this opening up a whole can of worms. Giving inexperienced users the chance to accidentally install, and leave running a webserver on a standard desktop? That's a huge potential security hole....

"No officer I had no idea those warez/porn were there."

[aidanjt]

What?.. That's it?.. This is how Opera is going to "reinvent the web"?

Wow, talking about lackluster.

[Crevan]

What?.. That's it?.. This is how Opera is going to "reinvent the web"?

Wow, talking about lackluster.

People want to share their files online, thus they use a lot of different services for image, video and general file sharing. Problem is - a lot of people don't like their stuff sitting "out there somewhere", since in that case they're not sure where it is and who exactly owns it. As I see it, Unite tries to solve the problem by allowing you to create your own mini-flickr, mini-youtube and mini-whatnot on your own device. This way you always know where your files are, you know you own them, and you know you're not using any middleman services to share them (well, apart from Unite to some extent, obviously).

Gonna do a quick test drive when I get home and see if it's any good.

[Arthran]

except this way, everybody has their own unique little place, the whole point of flikr/youtube etc was to centralise to make finding things easier

[aidanjt]

People want to share their files online, thus they use a lot of different services for image, video and general file sharing. Problem is - a lot of people don't like their stuff sitting "out there somewhere", since in that case they're not sure where it is and who exactly owns it. As I see it, Unite tries to solve the problem by allowing you to create your own mini-flickr, mini-youtube and mini-whatnot on your own device. This way you always know where your files are, you know you own them, and you know you're not using any middleman services to share them (well, apart from Unite to some extent, obviously).

Gonna do a quick test drive when I get home and see if it's any good.

Erm, the whole point of the 'cloud' is that your stuff is 'out there, somewhere', wherever you go. This doesn't really change anything. If you only want your stuff at a certain location and be easy to use and access across the tubes, buy/build a WHS box.

[Lucio]

Personally I think this is a bad bad idea, the last thing the average internet user needs is more ways to get their computer broken into. Shoving something onto your machine "because it seems cool" is a sure fire way to get screwed over.

[Arthran]

Personally I think this is a bad bad idea, the last thing the average internet user needs is more ways to get their computer broken into. Shoving something onto your machine "because it seems cool" is a sure fire way to get screwed over.

On a side note, Big up to Hemel Hempstead!