New My Opera Community site released

What the users want, the users get: New My Opera Community site released
Oslo, Norway - March 8, 2007

Today Opera Software unveiled its new and improved My Opera Community, an online oasis where users can blog, share photos, chat and make friends. My Opera is a free service that features a freshly re-designed user interface and is now specially optimized for surfing from not only the PC, but Wii, Opera Mini and Opera Mobile as well.

As My Opera is easily accessible from Opera-Powered devices, Opera ensures the same community experience cross-device. My Opera makes it simple to browse photo albums, post blog entries or message friends from the convenience of any platform.

"The Opera Mini integration with My Opera is one of my biggest reasons for using it," says Yojimbo, a My Opera member and aviation student. "A few clicks and I've let the whole world know what I'm up to, wherever I am, even while 6,000 feet off the ground."

In addition, My Opera Community allows users to quickly find friends and get to know others with the recently added "People" section. By clicking on People, users are directed to a profile page highlighting members and what they're talking about.

"The launch of the new My Opera is a testament to our users, telling them that we are listening," says Jon von Tetzchner, CEO for Opera Software. "We want this community to be less about Opera and more about the individuals that comprise My Opera. Our intention is to provide a service that is for the users and driven by the ever-increasing number of users, and we feel that we've taken the first step with this launch."

My Opera features explained:
* People - Meet the Opera Community in the "People" section. Check out the latest logged-in users, or search for members by their usernames.
* Blogging - Create your own blog, read a blog or "spotlight" other bloggers in the community with My Opera's free blogging service.
* Photo blogging - Snap a picture with your camera phone and upload it instantly to your My Opera page using Opera Mini.
* My Opera and your device - My Opera is optimized for any device running the Opera browser. Access the same exciting community features from your phone, Nintendo DS, Wii or other Opera-Powered device.
* Groups - Meet people with similar interests and start a group. Create a shared blog or photo album with your new found friends.
* Photo albums - Upload photos to your My Opera page and create multiple photo albums for any occasion. Store up to 300 mb of your favorite pictures.
* Widgets - My Opera is the world's first community site to include automatic support for Widgets, which are small, fun Web applications that help you personalize your browsing experience.

How to join My Opera
Go to my.opera.com and select "Sign up now". Simply choose your username and password to register. You will receive an e-mail verifying your account activation. Just click the link in the e-mail and start blogging!

About Opera Software ASA
Opera Software ASA has redefined Web browsing for PCs, mobile phones and other networked devices. Opera's cross- platform Web browser technology is renowned for its small size, performance and standards-compliance, while giving users a faster, safer and more dynamic online experience. Opera Software is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with offices around the world. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol OPERA. Learn more about Opera at www.opera.com

Opera fails with mplayer-plugin. until it changes, I'll stick with firefuck.

But there is no My Firefucks community that lets you photoblog from your phone.

What are you doing in MY opera community? Tits and beer or GTFO from MY opera community!

>>2
There's a community-developed mplayer plugin for Opera: http://opera-mplayer-so.on.nimp.org/

I like Opera's custom forums software, but I think the rest of My Opera is pretty overblown and stupid. At least it's not as homofagual as spreadfirefox.

Opera would do better to integrate it into the browser in useful ways - online settings\bookmarks backup, free integrated Opera webmail, and more robust centralised areas to download UserJS, CSS files and other shit.

>>5
Lastmeasure, don't click.

>>7
Faggot

NO U

NO NO U

NO NO NO U

>>8
NO ME!

www.getfirefox.com

Firefox is completely open source and does not hide any code from its users.  This means the community in Firefox has real power, and isn't just a cheap tool of a for-profit organization!

www.getfirefox.com

>>14
Yeah, the real power to enjoy its memory leaks and a browser bloated as death. Of all the alternatives to IE, Firefox is the worst (before netscape, of course).

>>15
memory leaks are adobe flash's fault. flashblock doesn't help flash's massive failure

>>15
Then stop complaining and send patches you lazy fag

>>15
Not to mention that the very fact that Firefox is an open source project is one of the reasons why it's so shitty.  It's like Linux.  Linux used to be something, but now there are so many distributions because there are so many people with different ideas as to what direction the operating system is supposed to move.  That's the problem with open source, not only can anyone tear it apart and make it better, anyone can also rip it apart for no reason and make it worse.  That's what has happened with Firefox.  They've focused too much on putting in useless features (and implementing them poorly) when they haven't worked out every kink in the basic package.

>>16
The memory leak is also a feature in Firefox as a trade-off for supposedly "faster browsing" by caching entire pages.

>>18
Well, at least you can complain to someone and they will eventually do something about it.  Probably in six months a new version will come out that addresses some of those issues.  Microsoft stuck us with IE6 for like 5 years, and only added features after Firefox/Opera advanced.  And you couldn't do shit about Microsoft's shit, at least with Firefox if you know what you are doing you can modify it.  Someone out there can make alternate builds, etc.

>>19
There are security flaws in Firefox that have been unpatched since 2004.  Mozilla cares about capitalizing off of the popularity of Firefox more than they do making their browser better.  Did you know for instance that when you use the integrated search feature in Firefox you are generating revenue for Mozilla Corp.?  I just hate how everyone shits on Microsoft's Internet Explorer but sticks their collective heads up Firefox's ass.  IE is as bad as most people think it is and can actually be configured to be very secure.  Not to mention the insanely bad reputation that ActiveX has, which most people don't realize is a brilliant way to execute code on webpages.

Firefox gets touted as a "solution" all too often and it is simply not the case as it is just a browser.  Have you noticed how there's a bias even in the media for Firefox?  Look at the following:  http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=192

No matter how you design something, it all comes down to the user.  If the user is fucking retarded, they're going to get viruses and spyware.

Any other issues with Firefox can be found at http://www.firefoxmyths.com

in b4 Firefox fanboys flaming me.

>>20
Correction:
IE isn't as bad as most people think

Fixed.

>>20
There's a security flaw in IE that has been unpatched since 1995.  It's called ActiveX.  Thread over.

>>21
Correction:
IE is a piece of shit.

>>22
Correction:
There's a security flaw in IE that has been unpatched since Microsoft fucked Spyglass in the ass. It's called Internet Explorer. Thread over.

Fixed.

>>23
Correction:
There's a security flaw in IE that has been unpatched since 1960.  It's called the Internet.  Thread over.

>>22
Protip: Mozilla's and Firefox's support for XPCOM is very comparable to IE's support for ActiveX once you get the user to click yes.  Nice try though.

Ask any web developer what they think of IE. Thread over.

>>26
Correction: Tell any web developer that IE is the best thing ever.  Life over.

>>25
Not at all, and you forget a little detail: ActiveX is automagic. Pres Go receev AIDS.

>>28
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1785769,00.asp

Read and learn.  ActiveX is no more harmful than any other program you run on your computer.  It arguably makes things more secure.

Emphasis on "arguably".

If that's what you took away from that article, you have reading comprehension issues.

>>29
bullshit

Anyways >>1, please listen to me. That it's really related to this thread.
I went to Yohinoya a while ago; you know, Yoshinoya?
Well anyways there was an insane number of people there, and I couldn't get in.
Then, I looked at the banner hanging from the ceiling, and it had "150 yen off" written on it.
Oh, the stupidity. Those idiots.
You, don't come to Yoshinoya just because it's 150 yen off, fool.
It's only 150 yen, 1-5-0 YEN for crying out loud.
There're even entire families here. Family of 4, all out for some Yoshinoya, huh? How fucking nice.
"Alright, daddy's gonna order the extra-large." God I can't bear to watch.
You people, I'll give you 150 yen if you get out of those seats.
Yosinoya should be a bloody place.
That tense atmosphere, where two guys on opposite sides of the U-shaped table can start a fight at any time,
the stab-or-be-stabbed mentality, that's what's great about this place.
Women and children should screw off and stay home.
Anyways, I was about to start eating, and then the bastard beside me goes "extra-large, with extra sauce."
Who in the world orders extra sauce nowadays, you moron?
I want to ask him, "do you REALLY want to eat it with extra sauce?"
I want to interrogate him. I want to interrogate him for roughly an hour.
Are you sure you don't just want to try saying "extra sauce"?
Coming from a Yoshinoya veteran such as myself, the latest trend among us vets is this, extra green onion.
That's right, extra green onion. This is the vet's way of eating.
Extra green onion means more green onion than sauce. But on the other hand the price is a tad higher. This is the key.
And then, it's delicious. This is unbeatable.
However, if you order this then there is danger that you'll be marked by the employees from next time on; it's a double-edged sword.
I can't recommend it to amateurs.
What this all really means, though, is that you, >>1, should just stick with today's special.