StumbleUpon brings video to the Wii; Listen to streaming music with WiiHear
4 CommentsPublished February 13th, 2007 4:06 PM EST By Daniel Goldman
Here are a few quick notes on some sites that are taking advantage of the Wii browser market. StumbleUpon revamped its video site to include an interface specifically designed for the Wii’s Opera browser. (See screenshot below). The AppScout blog has some pictures showing StumbleUpon on the TV set.
Also making the news for its Wii-optimized site is WiiHear, which streams music to your Wii through the Opera browser (via N Plus).
Soon you’ll be able to chat with AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) on the Wii using the Opera browser, according to the developers over at WiiAim.com.
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The Stumble upon guys has for a while not wanted to develope for Opera. Wonders if this will change now? If it works with Wii Opera it should work with desktop Opera… Shouldn’t it?
I have met a few people whose only reason for using Firefox has been Stumbleupon, so there is a need for this for Opera as well.
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Joar, that was my first thought, too. But looking at it, it’s a completely different animal. It’s not a toolbar or add-on that sends the browser to various websites. It’s a site of its own that embeds YouTube videos.
The same technique, applied to the regular StumbleUpon site, would basically be a frameset that embeds other pages. The URL bar would always show http://www.stumbleupon.com, not the real site. Frames-based sites wouldn’t work with it, since anything pointing to the top window would break out of the StumbleUpon frame. Non-frames sites that have code to prevent other sites from embedding them in frames would also break it.
It works here because the stuff being embedded is predictable. It wouldn’t work on StumbleUpon in general, where the stuff being embedded could be anything on the web.
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Well, cant blame SU really, as Opera doesnt provide any API to create custom toolbars, like Fx. It may be possible to do it with widgets though.
But seriously, its high timw Opera provides an API. Fx is improving fast, and providing more and more features out of the box, thus closing the gap with Opera.
I dont think Opera can compete without extensions. Extensions are a neccesity, and even IE and maxthon supports addons. But Opera, which believes in giving power to the user doesnt!! This is probably something, that should have been done by version 8.
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http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=176354&t=1171559288&page=1