Web 3.0 has arrived

November 23, 2009 · by Haavard

Opera 10.10 with Unite was released today, and I'm looking forward to seeing even more weird and wonderful applications. I don't think most people understand the potential of people's computers being able to talk to each others like this, but I'm sure they will realize sooner or later.

Ok, so calling it "Web 3.0" might seem a bit cheesy, but again, Opera Unite does mean that devices can start talking to each other instead of just being "passive" members of the Web.

Readers' comments 13

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Sami SerolaMonday, November 23, 2009 9:26:24 AM
Looking forward to find use for Opera Unite. My problem is that I don't keep my netbook always on, which somewhat limits the use of Opera Unite. However, I have started to consider buying a cheap PC for this.
d4rkn1ghtMonday, November 23, 2009 9:41:09 AM
http://www.gifmix.net/smileys/happy-smilies/78.gif -
KarbonadeMonday, November 23, 2009 10:31:00 AM
It does not work behind our company's firewall. That wouldn't be a great problem, but the first preview of Opera Unite did work correctly. Was it denied on purpose?
Sami SerolaMonday, November 23, 2009 10:49:21 AM
If you just installed Opera 10.10, then you may need to restart your computer to get Opera Unite connected.
HaavardMonday, November 23, 2009 11:35:22 AM
karaj: You'll have to ask your network admin.
endless loveMonday, November 23, 2009 11:46:01 AM
walterMonday, November 23, 2009 11:52:22 AM
Here is "Web 3.0" who called for me
random414Monday, November 23, 2009 12:19:00 PM
Awesome!
Charles SchlossMonday, November 23, 2009 4:42:29 PM
SO Uniteed we stand

Will be using Opera unite to play my music from any computer on college campus
PurdiThursday, November 26, 2009 8:06:49 AM
Originally posted by 53north:

Wonder when ISPs and server companies will start banning it for bandwidth chatter.

Never. They would have banned all you BitTorrent users already if that was to happen.
Cutting SpoonTuesday, December 1, 2009 7:57:13 PM
In the United States there is a legislative motion to prevent bandwidth discrimination, for example a 3G carrier can not ban you from serving pages or using Skype/Google Voice.
Charles SchlossTuesday, December 1, 2009 10:41:20 PM
I think one thing the carriers in the US are worried about is the data intensive apps will hog all the bandwidth of the network and crash the network with an overload. You can only get a certain bandwidth over the pipes that are in a certain area.

Back to Opera Unite I was using it to stream my music library while I was on a lab computer and noticed some songs did not show, I was wondering about what the supported formats were for the Opera Unite Media Player
Cutting SpoonWednesday, December 2, 2009 12:23:41 AM
I believe mp3 and aac for sure, not certain what else is best, but I'd suggest low-bitrate mp3's for streaming and high-quality files in their original format for download. Some folks have reported cover-art issues but mine work.

Half the network failure is bad code. El Reg had a piece on AT&T crushing itself with oversize buffers. They wanted huge buffers to deal with the projected hunger of iPhones, but the memory needed is too large for the hardware to manage. There turned out to be fewer problems with less than half the buffer.