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January 24, 2014 12:51 am GMT
After Jon von Tetzchner left Opera in 2011, things went quiet around the company’s former CEO and Opera itself quickly went into a different direction under its new leadership. As part of that change, the company decided to shut down its My Opera community by March 1, 2014. My Opera launched in 2001 as a support forum and a few years later, it morphed into a very active community site, with built-in blogs, photo sharing and other services that were often also integrated in the browser. While it’s mostly been under the radar of the tech press, the service still has close to 10 million users who will now be looking for a new place to call their online home. To give the old My Opera a refuge after the service shuts down, von Tetzchner gathered about 20 former Opera employees to develop a replacement at Vivaldi.net. The name already hints at its relationship to Opera. As von Tetzchner told me, most meeting rooms and many other things at Opera were always named after composers, so Vivaldi was a logical (and available) choice. “When Opera decided to close the community site,” he told me, “that gave us a very good reason to build a new community site.” Right now, the service is mostly geared to those former My Opera users, with forums, the ability to write blog posts and an email service. It doesn’t currently have all of My Opera’s photo-sharing features and layout tools for the built-in blogs, but then, the team only had a few weeks to build the current iteration of the site. The self-funded service is currently available for free, and asvon Tetzchner stressed, he does not want to monetize it through advertising. “We will not be going into the data and using that to provide advertising,” he told me. Instead, he believes the team can find other ways to monetize the service in the long run. The team plans to listen to its users when it comes to developing new features. Tomita Tatsuki, a former Opera employee who previously led Opera’s efforts in Japan and now works on Vivaldi, told me that this may often mean finding the right balance between privacy and functionality. While Vivaldi was designed as a replacement for the old My Opera community, though, von Tetzchner stressed that it is open to all. Given its heritage, the team believes, the service
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Operas Former CEO Launches Vivaldi, A New Community Site And Email Service
After Jon von Tetzchner left Opera in 2011, things went quiet around the company’s former CEO and Opera itself quickly went into a different direction under its new leadership. As part of that change, the company decided to shut down its My Opera community by March 1, 2014. My Opera launched in 2001 as a support forum and a few years later, it morphed into a very active community site, with built-in blogs, photo sharing and other services that were often also integrated in the browser. While it’s mostly been under the radar of the tech press, the service still has close to 10 million users who will now be looking for a new place to call their online home. To give the old My Opera a refuge after the service shuts down, von Tetzchner gathered about 20 former Opera employees to develop a replacement at Vivaldi.net. The name already hints at its relationship to Opera. As von Tetzchner told me, most meeting rooms and many other things at Opera were always named after composers, so Vivaldi was a logical (and available) choice. “When Opera decided to close the community site,” he told me, “that gave us a very good reason to build a new community site.” Right now, the service is mostly geared to those former My Opera users, with forums, the ability to write blog posts and an email service. It doesn’t currently have all of My Opera’s photo-sharing features and layout tools for the built-in blogs, but then, the team only had a few weeks to build the current iteration of the site. The self-funded service is currently available for free, and asvon Tetzchner stressed, he does not want to monetize it through advertising. “We will not be going into the data and using that to provide advertising,” he told me. Instead, he believes the team can find other ways to monetize the service in the long run. The team plans to listen to its users when it comes to developing new features. Tomita Tatsuki, a former Opera employee who previously led Opera’s efforts in Japan and now works on Vivaldi, told me that this may often mean finding the right balance between privacy and functionality. While Vivaldi was designed as a replacement for the old My Opera community, though, von Tetzchner stressed that it is open to all. Given its heritage, the team believes, the serviceOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/dmw3w_73Svs/
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