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Opera at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas (pictures included)

Published March 13th, 2007 9:37 AM EDT By Daniel Goldman

This week Opera is at the popular SXSW (South by Southwest) conference.

In addition to the talk/presentation by Charles McCathieNevile, the Chief Standards Officer at Opera Software, Opera also has a booth there showing off the Opera desktop browser, Opera Mini, Opera on the Nintendo Wii and DS, and more.

The funny thing about Opera’s booth is that it’s sharing a back wall with the Mozilla Firefox booth (though Opera’s booth is about twice the size of Firefox’s).

While in Austin, a couple Opera guys were wandering around the city and onto the BarCamp Austin, and then proceeded to buy everyone drinks on behalf of Opera. There’s even a press mention of it by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Lawrence Eng, who’s at the conference, sent me some photos last night. Take a look at them below.

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Opera bought and hosted coffee for SXSW attendees on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday morning.

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t the coffee station on Monday, the Nintendo DS Lite on display, running Opera to view the SXSW website

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Opera employees posing with an Opera fan

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Opera on the Nintendo Wii at the booth

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Opera on the NintendoWii displaying MySpace at the booth

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Talking to SXSW attendees

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Opera employees taking a short coffee brake

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  1. 1 Ryan Mar 13th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    Why the heck do they have to go to Austin, when Lubbock is soo much more “fun”? Ah well, I guess I can make a trip down to Austin the next time they have a meeting. But I won’t like being in a rival school’s town very much though. :P

  2. 2 Lawmune Mar 13th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    I’ll send more photos after I get home. (My flights are delayed, unfortunately)

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A: Absolutely not. In fact, many of the features that are popular in other browsers today were invented and pioneered by Opera a long time ago. Opera invented the precursor to tabs (in 1994), Page Zoom (1994), was the first browser to block pop-up ads (2000), first to add a Search field in the browser toolbar (2000), Sessions (1996), deleting private data (2000), Mouse Gestures (2000), User JavaScript (2005), BitTorrent support (2005), Widgets (2006), Speed Dial (2007), and much more.

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Q: This all sounds great, so how do I download Opera?
A: -- Opera on your computer
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