Opera innovates again with Unite

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	Opera tries to Unite users across browsers The latest version of Opera's Web browser has a new trick: it turns your computer into a Web server that can privately host content from your hard drive to your friends. As opposed to traditional systems that rely on third-party hosting services for swapping files, this lets users share all of their content directly. This may sound complicated, but Opera has made it pretty easy for almost anyone to start sharing files with built-in tools that feel like Web apps. The only difference is that the users are the ones hosting what's on them, which should make for some new and innovative Web creations. Read our hands-on with Opera Unite Josh Lowensohn Associate Editor, Webware.com New on Webware.com Microsoft veteran launches Twitter search engine Posted by Ina Fried Ken Moss, who led the search engineering team at Microsoft for five years, has spent the last months building CrowdEye, a real-time search engine that aims to allow users to better mine Twitter to get a pulse on hot topics. The service offers up not only the latest tweets on a topic, but also a list of the most popular links on a topic and a tag cloud of associated terms.  Read more  Will new browsers really upgrade the Web? Posted by Stephen Shankland The hope coming from many Web browser creators is that the Web will evolve from a series of relatively static pages to a lively home for Web applications--everything from today's e-mail to tomorrow's spreadsheets. But it could take awhile for reality to catch up with the vision.  Read more  How well do Netbooks work with Web apps? Posted by Josh Lowensohn Netbooks are an incredibly exciting new product category, and one that's undergoing constant evolution. Designed to handle e-mail, Web browsing, and some basic software apps, they are somewhat limited when compared with most full-size laptops, but how limited? I wanted to find out.  Read more  Bing modified to enable porn filtering Posted by Larry Magid After plenty of coverage about how its Bing search engine makes it all too easy for kids to find and view porn, Microsoft has made some changes that will make it easier for parents to block or monitor what their kids are viewing on the site.  Read more  YouMail's visual voice mail comes calling on iPhone Posted by Jessica Dolcourt This last weekend, users of YouMail's freemium Visual Voicemail Plus service were able to start reading and responding to voice messages from iPhones. Like rival visual voice mail services, YouMail lets you manage voice messages like e-mail messages in exchange for making the service your default mobile answering machine.  Read more  Nintendo DSi Game Console Buy today, only $169 HP IPAQ HX2490C PCKT PC Buy Today, Only: $387.08 Twitter treats New versions of Tweetdeck, Seesmic square off Posted by Rafe Needleman This week a new version of the Tweetdeck Twitter client launched, following the earlier release of a preview of Seesmic Desktop. Both updated Twitter clients look like significant improvements from their previous versions. Tweetdeck is also getting an iPhone app. We look at all three.  Read more  iPhone 3.0 a cut-and-paste win for Twitter Posted by Daniel Terdiman The iPhone world is rejoicing over the "it's about time" cut-and-paste feature in the just-released 3.0 version of the device's operating system. But I'm willing to bet that another group breaking open the champagne right now is the team at Twitter. Not to mention the makers of Twitter iPhone apps. Read on to find out why.  Read more    Related Newsletters Stay informed on the tech topics that matter to you most CNET offers a wide variety of newsletters on everything from tech industry news to the latest games and gear. Browse the entire list now. Manage newsletters More Webware  Webware RSS feed  The Webware 100  About Webware.com
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