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Photos from the Opera user meetup in China

Published December 11th, 2007 12:42 PM EST By Daniel Goldman

This past week Opera hosted an Opera user meetup for our Chinese Opera users. The meetup took place at a bar in Guangzhou, which is in Southern China.

You may recall that not long ago our CEO, Jon von Tetzchner, hung out with some Chinese Opera users. Opera has an office in China.

Here are some photos of the event:

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(Opera’s Joe Ruan, left, showing off Opera Mini)

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(Opera’s Thruth Wang, left)

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(Opera’s Joe Ruan, right, posing with an Opera user)

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  1. 1 Investor Dec 11th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    So… Opera strategy in China ain’t working ?

  2. 2 Daniel Goldman Dec 11th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Investor, why do you say that?

  3. 3 Investor Dec 11th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Well, Daniel, you show photos of a handful fans, partly employees… If Opera had been browser Boss in China, the show would have been overbooked multiple times (eg. like the Bruce Springsteen concert in Oslo last week) ;)… And China market share is confirmed low 2.49% : http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=12&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=106&qpmr=300&qpdt=1&qpct=103&qpcustom=*4&qpob=MarketShare%20DESC&sample=1

  4. 4 schmatistics Dec 12th, 2007 at 3:19 am
    using Opera Opera 9.24 on Windows Windows XP

    Hitslink? The guys who just recently changed their minds and turned their own stats upside down?

    Hardly a reliable source.

    Your blind faith in browser stats is disturbing if you are indeed an investor :)

    http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2005/05/statistics-nonsense

  5. 5 Investor Dec 12th, 2007 at 10:39 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Stats are reliable, when read correctly ;)

  6. 6 x3 Dec 12th, 2007 at 10:48 am
    using Opera Opera 9.24 on Windows Windows Vista

    How do you read stats (the very same stats) that change overnight correctly? :)

  7. 7 Investor Dec 12th, 2007 at 11:35 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    The *Stan Loves Opera* stat (above link) is consistent with other sources, thus reliable. But the other http://www.netapplications.com browser stats are incorrect, for sure.

    Sorry, secret of the trade ;)

  8. 8 hmm Dec 16th, 2007 at 6:28 am
    using Opera Opera 9.24 on Windows Windows XP

    The stats are unreliable since they changed overnight and since browser statistics are useless by definition.

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