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This Is Cool. I Just Don’t Know What To Do With It Yet.

Opera, the browser people, have introduced a service that turns your PC or laptop into a Web server so that you can share your files and images with other people, stream your MP3 files, host a Website, and more, without uploading anything to the Web. It’s called Opera Unite.

I managed to share a folder living on my USB flash drive with 2 colleagues at Jenkins. After I told Opera Unite which folder I wanted to share, it created a URL that I emailed to them. They clicked on the link in the email and could view, but not edit, the files. They didn’t need to install Opera to look at the files, either.

Interesting. But is this something I want to add to my digital toolbox? I’m thinking yeah, but I need to play with it some more.  (It’s still a bit wonky. After an hour I started to get a weird proxy error and couldn’t even view my own files.) I also have to read the intro and an article written by one of its developers.

Anyway, until I get access to Google Wave (and I’m not holding my breath, either), this is the next best thing.

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on June 16, 2009 (boomark / email).