Opera Unite and Social Collaboration

June 27, 2009 by Colby · Comments
Filed under: Social Collaboration 

Opera Unite was launched 10 days ago, and offers an alternative to cloud services, which host intellectual property on their servers.  It works within the Opera browser, which historically has been innovative software.

Unite allows for local sharing with contacts instead of uploading to a server.  This can produce easy project collaboration by sharing a specified folder, with other options to open a chat room, a place for leaving notes, or even user your computer as a server.  Other applications will be developed but extras are not are currently available.

Disadvantages include that you need the opera browser installed and the Unite service to be running to be sharing your files, and file modification is not live- they must be edited individually then shared.

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