hint - regular users couldnt care less about opera working conditions. they absolutely dont care. if you want to post such informations for opera geeks, be sure to include infos for regular users, who come here to read about interesting stuff - shedules, work in progress, new features (or lack of them lately).

since that Kestrel blog post on desktop team, opera didnt say anything new about kestrel. meanwhile users can test ff3 daily. any undecided users are going to simply autoUptade to ff3 (because ff3 has autoupdate, opera doesnt) and stay with it. opera users cant be involved into the ‘approaching’ opera 9.5 because thez simplz know nothing. so thez loose interest. no tension, no fuzz, no buzz in the blogosphere. nothing. these days you need to build these things up by relasing information that public see interesting. not some geeky/press photos of nameless employees.

do you think that there are not-opera-fanboys that are interested in opera offices? if you want attract NEW users to opera, show them something interesting/cool - screenshot of feature in development, give them some hints on kestrel/peregrine. but let it be something new, and not too general.

dont worry about firefox ’stealing’ new opera ideas, they’ll do it anyway via extensions in few days time, so dont bother to be secretive Firefox speedDial extension doesnt even mention opera in its description. and you cant really do anything about that. for the public, they were first. because all opera told us, was how noisy their offices are.

maybe it is offtopic to this blogpost, but is relevant to general marketing discussion that started lately in opera [hope not too late]

Bah. Opera needs to create a campaign for the increasing use of their browser by state and officials. Or better, to become desktopteam blog junkies!

Sounds terrible, I hope this will get better soon.