Opera Link: Converging your Web browsing
14 CommentsPublished October 25th, 2007 11:19 AM EDT By Daniel Goldman
Today we released an important new product: Opera Link.
In short, Opera Link converges your browsing experience between multiple computers and even mobile phones.
How so? Say you’re reading some news article on the Web with your computer, but now you would like to continue reading that very same article on your mobile phone. With Opera Link, you simply bookmark that article, and it is instantly synchronized with your Opera Mini bookmarks, thus giving you a seamless browsing among multiple Web browsers.
In addition, Opera Link helps you avoid the hassle of entering long URLs on your mobile phone’s browser; all you have to do is bookmark them on your PC.
At this point, Opera 9.5 beta for the desktop and Opera Mini 4 beta, both of which were released today, provide access to Opera Link.
Opera Link allows you to synchronize and share your bookmarks, Speed Dial sites, and Personal Bar buttons at this time.
There’s also a Web interface to Opera Link over at link.opera.com, which means users of other browsers (such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari) could also use Opera Link with their Opera Mini browsers.
Here at Opera we’ve been working on Opera Link for more than a year already; it’s exciting to finally see it out in the public.
We like to refer to Opera Link as a new product, and not just another browser feature, since it introduces a whole new way browsing the Web.
To celebrate the launch of Opera Link, Opera will be throwing a party this evening in San Francisco, California. A couple of indie rock bands, The 88 and The Binges, will be playing at the Rock Opera party. For more information, visit rock.opera.com
I’ll have more details on the new Opera 9.5 beta and Opera Mini beta soon.
Links:
Opera Link
Rock Opera
Opera 9.5 beta
Opera Mini 4 beta
(Opera Link: linking the Web on devices and computers)
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Is this the new feature that was pictured in the bottom left of the browser window that people where guessing at a few months ago?
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Diego, yes. On the bottom right corner it says ‘Syncronizing…’
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awesome, funny how I (and others) had suggested this when opera announced 9.5 with its synchronisatin abilities – I guess great minds think alike. Now if we could get labelling and userjs (as well as other personal data) added, I would be very happy
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A W E S O M E ! ! !
Finally, I am going to go ahead and dump the fugly del.icio.us!
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Great stuff… :up:
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dedicated storage?
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Thanks Daniel, I look forward to using it with my desktop and Moto Z8.
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Nice feature. I’ll definitely find this useful when using my laptop on vacation.
I’m still waiting for Firefox-like spell checking though.
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Greeaaat
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Please don’t close Opera’s synchronisation abilities to a single server (link.opera.com). There should be an easy way for all servers (including del.icio.us) to use Opera’s synchronisation features.
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I haven’t used bookmarks since roughly 3 years now. Is there any chance of seeing link also synch sessions?
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GReat!
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Well I just grabbed the Mini 4 Beta 3 and how amazing is that to see the same bookmarks on my SE w880 as on my work and home PCs. Fantastic stuff guys and gals at Opera.
Opera Link is very cool and given it’s 1.0 release status things can only get better from here on in.
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I agree with Christian Walde.
In my opinion individual browser-based, plain old, regular bookmarks are DEAD.
The correct answer to the problem Opera Link is trying to solve by syncing bookmarks was solved far better by del.icio.us and other social bookmarking sites years ago. Perhaps if instead of simply syncing bookmarks from one browser to another, Opera Link would allow users to tag and share bookmarks between users too, I would be interested.
Now, if Opera Link could syncronize sessions- I would be ecstatic because I will no longer have to save a session, upload the file to my webserver, download it when I get home, and load it on my home browser. That is what I want to do- not just bookmarks but page locations and numerous tabs all synced at once.