My Opera (Online Social Networking website Full Details)

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My Opera

URL	My.Opera.com
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Social networking, Help desk
Registration	No, optional to use every feature
Owner	Opera Software ASA
Launched	August 2001
Current status	Active

My Opera is the support community for the Opera web browser. More than 7,500^[1] new members join per day, and the site has more than 5 million members^[2]. In addition to being a support site for the Opera browser, My Opera is a social networking site, featured with blogs, photo albums, and more

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History

The My Opera Community was launched in August 2001^[4] as a simple support site for the browser, and had its first upgrade a month later on September 11.^[5] On December 15, 2003 the site underwent an upgrade that allowed users to access more features.^[6]


In September 2005 the My Opera Community added major improvements. During this upgrade users were given access to photo albums, improved blogs (formerly journals), the ability to create custom groups and 300MB^[4] of free disk space. Improvements to blogging included the introduction of "mobile blogging" or blogging from a mobile phone through MMS.^[7]
On March 8, 2007 Opera released a new version of the site.^[8]


The new hardware for the 2006 upgrade was put to use for a beta test site on October 26, 2006. This site was intended to remain up even after the final install of the new hardware on the regular website. There are extensive plans for various subdomains on the My Opera site.^[9]



Features

Every My Opera user gets 2 GB of space for file storage.^[10] Users may use this space for Blogs, Photo Albums or forums.
Blog support started out with a personal "Journal" service. In September 2005 this, along with other major improvements this service, was changed to a "Blog" service. Opera Software also uses a blog as a way to give news on its weekly updates through the Opera Desktop Team Blog, which is the most popular blog on the community^[11]. Users also have the option of listing their blog on a worldmap.
There is a subsection called "Forums" devoted to Opera themed forums. There are also separate forums in individual's Groups. All forums support standard BB Code based features.



Opera Link

Opera Link was released in October 2007 and allows users to synchronise their Bookmarks, Speed Dial, Notes, Personal Bar^[12], custom search engines and typed history^[13] across multiple computers and mobile phones. Of these, the Bookmarks, Notes and Speed dial can be accessed through a web interface at http://link.opera.com^[14].



Subdomains

There are several Opera subdomain sites that use a My Opera account. These include:

• Opera Widgets, a site for uploading Widgets for the Opera browser
• Dev.Opera, a site for developers to write articles and share tips and tricks
• Opera Portal, the default page for the Opera Browser, it includes a search engine and customisable news feeds.
• Opera Link, to administrate and to sync bookmarks, SpeedDial and the Personal Bar for the Opera Browser on different devices

References

1. ^ "Opera Community Member Statistics". http://my.opera.com/Tamil/albums/sho...cture=20891221. Retrieved 2009-10-10.
2. ^ "My.Opera Homepage". http://my.opera.com/. Retrieved 2009-10-10.
3. ^ "T-Mobile deploys My Opera Community for web'n'walk.". Europe Intelligence Wire. 2007-03-15. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2...6-29995760_ITM. Retrieved 2008-09-23.
4. ^ ^{a b} "My Opera Community, ey? What's the catch?". http://avencius.nl/content/my-opera-...ey-whats-catch. Retrieved 2008-09-23.
5. ^ Opera in Your Community Opera revamps MyOpera community and enhances the Opera Composer
6. ^ Jaques, Robert (2003-12-17). "Curtain goes up on My Opera redesign". VNUNET.com. http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...opera-redesign. Retrieved 2008-09-23.
7. ^ Millard, Elizabeth (2005-10-19). "Opera Enables Mobile Bloggin". eWeek. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-a...bile-Blogging/. Retrieved 2008-09-23.
8. ^ Oh Glorious Day!! - My Opera Community Main Page Blog
9. ^ Introducing the Opera Community Beta Site
10. ^ "New My Opera Community site launched" (in en). W3 Reports. 08-03-2007. http://www.w3reports.com/index.php?itemid=1673. Retrieved 2008-09-21.
11. ^ My Opera Blogs arranged in order of most visited
12. ^ Kirk, Jeremy (2008-10-28). "Opera Beta Improves Syncin". PCWorld. http://www.pcworld.com/article/13891...s_syncing.html. Retrieved 2008-09-23.
13. ^ "First 9.60 Snapshot!". http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog...-9-60-snapshot. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
14. ^ Fowler, Dennis (2008-06-18). "Opera 9.5 -- a fine browsing alternative". Computerworld.com. http://www.computerworld.com/action/...ntsrc=hm_topic.. Retrieved 2008-09-23.

External links

• Official website
• My.Opera News - Development Blog for the Opera Community
• Project 365
• Dev.Opera