Web 2.0 broke the mold on the web by allowing anyone who could key in a password to be able to publish – instantly – whatever they wanted on the web. But it was all done in the cloud, through browsers… A million of so blogs and restaurant reviews later, Opera’s new UNITE service attempts to break that mold.

Essentially it turns your computer into the cloud, as opposed to the ‘cloud’ that we all talk about being on all the servers out there, we now each can have a cloud of our own. I can serve the datasheets from this months SEO reports without have to upload them. I can grab the music from my home pc and play it here at work (not that anyone here at work wants to here my Tuvan Throat Singing collection) – but I CAN do it… there are some interesting things like “fridge” that seems very Facebook “wall”-like, but I applaud these efforts as progess towards a more democratic web world.

Not sure if IE or FF will suffer a dramatic loss of market share though. IE and Windows will always be the marriage I don’t understand that stays together for longer then I expected.  And FF usefullness with its developer plug-ins has made it essesntial to the daily work-flow of scores or web-workers…

I think it is interesting everytime a service claims to ‘change the web’. From what I have seen it only seems to waken the beasts – so it will be interesting to see how the other Browsers respond to this move.

I think we will be going from staring at the clouds and saying what they look like to shaping them here at our desks.

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wicked lake dvd I am going to make my clouds look like doggies.