My Opera Community

Infobox Website
name = My Opera Community



caption =
url = [http://my.opera.com/ My.Opera.com]
commercial = No
type = Social networking, Help desk
registration = Yes
owner = Opera Software ASA
author =
launch date = August 2001
current status = Active

My Opera Community is the support community for the Opera web browser. Between 1,000cite news| first = Elizabeth | last = Millard |title = Opera Enables Mobile Bloggin| publisher = eWeek| date =2005-10-19| url =http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Opera-Enables-Mobile-Blogging/| accessdate = 2008-09-23] and 2,000 [cite web|url=http://my.opera.com/Tamil/albums/showpic.dml?album=196828&picture=6003687|title=Tamil's Photos & Screenshots|accessdate=2008-09-23|format=|work= ] new members join per day, and the site has more than 1.7 million members [cite web|url=http://my.opera.com/|title=My.Opera Homepage|accessdate=2008-09-23|format=|work= ] . 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 [cite news| title = T-Mobile deploys My Opera Community for web'n'walk.| publisher =Europe Intelligence Wire| date =2007-03-15| url =http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-29995760_ITM| accessdate = 2008-09-23] .

History

The My Opera Community was launched in August 2001cite web|url=http://avencius.nl/content/my-opera-community-ey-whats-catch|title=My Opera Community, ey? What's the catch?|accessdate=2008-09-23|format=|work= ] as a simple support site for the browser, and had its first upgrade a month later on September 11. [ [http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2001/09/20010911.dml Opera in Your Community Opera revamps MyOpera community and enhances the Opera Composer] ] On December 15, 2003 the site underwent an upgrade that allowed users to access more features. [cite news| last =Jaques| first =Robert| title =Curtain goes up on My Opera redesign| publisher =VNUNET.com| date =2003-12-17| url =http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2123973/curtain-goes-opera-redesign| accessdate = 2008-09-23]

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 of free disk space. Improvements to blogging included the introduction of "mobile blogging" or blogging from a mobile phone through MMS.

On March 8, 2007 Opera released a new version of the site. [ [http://my.opera.com/community/blog/show.dml/805603 Oh Glorious Day!! - My Opera Community Main Page Blog] ]

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. [ [http://my.opera.com/devblog/blog/introducing-opera-community-beta-site Introducing the Opera Community Beta Site] ]

Features

Every My Opera user gets 300MB of space for file storage. [cite web|url=http://www.w3reports.com/index.php?itemid=1673|title=New My Opera Community site launched|date=08-03-2007|publisher=W3 Reports|language=en|accessdate=2008-09-21] Users may used 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 [http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog Opera Desktop Team Blog] , which is the most popular blog on the community [ [http://my.opera.com/community/blogs/index.dml?show=vis My Opera Blogs arranged in order of most visited] ] . 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 and Personal Bar across multiple computers and mobile phones [cite news| last = Kirk | first = Jeremy| title = Opera Beta Improves Syncin| publisher = PCWorld| date =2008-10-28| url = http://www.pcworld.com/article/138913/opera_beta_improves_syncing.html| accessdate = 2008-09-23] . Of these, the Bookmarks , Notes and Speed dial can be accessed through a web interface at [http://link.opera.com Link.Opera.com] [cite news| last =Fowler| first =Dennis | title =Opera 9.5 -- a fine browsing alternative
publisher =Computerworld.com| date =2008-06-18| url =http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=18&articleId=9099879&intsrc=hm_topic.| accessdate = 2008-09-23] .

Subdomains

There are several Opera subdomain sites that use a My Opera account. These include:
* [http://widgets.opera.com/ Opera Widgets] , a site for uploading Widgets for the Opera browser
* [http://dev.opera.com/ Dev.Opera] , a site for developers to write articles and share tips and tricks
* [http://portal.opera.com/ Opera Portal] , the default page for the Opera Browser, it includes a search engine and customisable news feeds.
* [http://link.opera.com/ Opera Link] , to administrate and to sync bookmarks, SpeedDial and the Personal Bar for the Opera Browser on different devices

References

External links

* [http://my.opera.com/community/ Official website]
* [http://my.opera.com/devblog/blog/ My.Opera News - Development Blog for the Opera Community]
* [http://my.opera.com/coxy/blog/show.dml/513693 Project 365]
* [http://dev.opera.com/ Dev.Opera]