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Live chat with Opera’s CEO on Thursday

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 Published February 28th, 2007 11:35 AM EST By Daniel Goldman

This week’s Opera chat will be with Jon von Tetzchner, the founder and CEO of Opera. The chat will take place tomorrow, Thursday March 1st, at 5:00 PM CET (check your local time) in the #webapps IRC channel. (You could use the Opera browser to visit IRC channels).

Unfortunately, I won’t be there – I’ll be on my plane ride back to the US from Oslo, Norway – the global headquarters of Opera Software, though I did have a chance to talk with him in person last night. I hope one of you will post the chat log online.

Be sure to join the conversation.

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  1. 1 WildEnte Feb 28th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.12 on Windows Windows XP

    Can’t be there either. Someone should ask him why the heck they don’t get rid of http://www.operamail.com and if stronger integration of my.opera.com with the browser (not the other way around!) is planned.

  2. 2 ResearchWizard Mar 1st, 2007 at 12:41 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.12 on Windows Windows XP

    Here is the cleaned chat log:
    http://files.myopera.com/ResearchWizard/chatlogs/chat_2007-03-01_CEO-Jon-von-Tetzchner.html and another nice variant from LarsKL: http://my.opera.com/larskl/blog/show.dml/788568

    Wildente: I asked about the second part of your question and got a pretty diplomatic answer (who’d claim it to be evasive?)

  3. 3 ResearchWizard Mar 1st, 2007 at 12:43 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.12 on Windows Windows XP

    I forgot grafios log in case you’d like to see all the status messages http://files.myopera.com/grafio/files/jonsvtchat.htm

  4. 4 Øyvind Ø (at work) Mar 2nd, 2007 at 8:01 am
    using Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows Windows XP

    Here is a transcript. Looks like an interesting chat. Wish I was there to ask a bit about Microformats :) Doesn’t look like it was even mentioned :(

    - ØØ -

  5. 5 Daniel Goldman Mar 2nd, 2007 at 10:44 am
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    Thanks for the transcripts.

  6. 6 WildEnte Mar 2nd, 2007 at 12:08 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.20 on Windows Windows XP

    Thanks ResearchWizard, I appreciate it.

    He did a pretty good job at not becoming specific about anything (c:=

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