From My Opera to Vivaldi (2)


Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner

Von Tetzchner is wooing the My Opera community with his new venture, Vivaldi.net a site offering free mail, blogging and photo storage appealing to more technical users. He should get a few signups: Opera is shuttering My Opera and Vivaldi.net allows users to import their own material.

Vivaldi.net is ad free yet charges no subscription. So how will that work?

"I'm funding it myself so far and we have about 20 staff. After a while we'll be looking at the opportunities. We will not look at your data and not exploit users' content, or allow robots. At Opera we just focussed on making a great service and did not exploit users' content. And our EULA is readable and reasonable."

Based in Iceland, Vivaldi is also powered by renewable energy – geothermal and hydro – and users the wind for cooling to keep the costs down. That could attract some tree huggers.
The Register


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