Opera has been leading us on to a bit product launch, and it came today in the form of Opera Unite a product which extends the Opera browser to contain a Web server inside allowing you to talk P2P between browsers (via a proxy at operaunite.com).

On the one hand, skeptics have argued that this has been done before. We have things like the Plain Old Web server and P2P extensions. However, it is nice to see it packaged cleanly, and we have the advantage of more standard APIs (HTML5 APIs, Widget APIs, etc). At Mozilla (disclaimer: remember I work there ;), we also have something that [...]