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Ask DLS: Speculate wildly about how Opera will "Reinvent the Web!"


I've seen some teases in my day, but this one ranks right up there with the best of them. In just a few days, Opera is going to unveil something they claim will reinvent the Web!!!

The image above is pretty much all the information that Opera has provided. Oh, yeah, it might be called Opera Freedom and there's one more cryptic clue buried in the page's source:
We start our little story with the invention of the modern day computer. Over the years, the computers grew in numbers, and the next natural step in the evolution was to connect the together. To share things...
So what could this next evolution be? What is so amazing that Opera must spring it on an unsuspecting world at the crack of...well, the start of the business day...on Tuesday? Dear god, can the Internet even survive such a massive evolutionary change?!?!

There's only one logical thing to do: speculate wildly!!

Give it your best shot, DLSers! What do you think this is all about? How will our web experienced be changed?

Could they have found a way to eliminate annoyances like domain squatting, Rickrolls, and social white noise?

Will Opera launch a service that sends super-intelligent puppies to your house to read web pages out loud to you?

Will the company introduce a blazing fast browser the likes of which the world has never seen, but which only displays the color red?

...Or will this turn out to be a whole lot of smoke and very little bang?

Filed under: Business, Internet, News

Is Amazon trying to buy Netflix or not?

Netflix AmazonThere's this nasty rumor going around that Amazon may be in talks to purchase Netflix for $1.5 billion or so. The rumor was enough to drive Netflix stock up yesterday by about 5 percent or $1.06.

The San Jose Mercury News has already reported that spokespersons for Netflix and Amazon have already dismissed the rumor as, well... as a rumor. Of course, that's exactly what they would say even if there were some truth to it.

But there's at least one good reason to think this deal may be nothing more than idle speculation. Right now Amazon can sell products to buyers in most states without charging sales tax. But U.S. law says that if you have a bricks and mortar operation in a state, you have to charge sales tax. Since Netflix has 43 distribution centers across the country, that could mean Amazon would have to begin charging sales tax to millions of customers.

Filed under: Internet, Google

Schmidt: No Google Browser plans

Google BrowserEric Schmidt says Google has no plans to develop its own web browser, according to Reuters. During a conference call with Wall Street analysts today, the Google CEO said, "It looks like people have some good browsers choices already. We would not build a browser for the fun of building a browser." Speculation that Google would release its own web browser with its seach, e-mail, and other products integrated has been widespread for years and I doubt this will quash them entirely (if not for fun, Eric, how 'bout for money?). Anyway, we can still speculate about Google OS, can't we?

[Via Digg]

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