Opera Unite is an upcoming new technology that will turn any computer or device running Opera 10 into a Web server. This will allow anyone to serve and share content and services directly from their own computers in the form of intuitive applications (Opera Unite Services).
Opera Unite allows users to easily share their data: photos, music, notes and other files. Users can even run chat rooms and host entire Web sites with Opera Unite. It puts the power of a Web server in the browser, giving users greater privacy and flexibility.
Developers can easily create their own Opera Unite Services (An Opera Unite Service is a special kind of Opera Widget, which holds the logic for receiving requests and responding to them.) by using Web standards like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG and AJAX. If you are a developer wanting to write Opera Unite widgets, the best place to start is our Opera Unite developer’s primer.
