You may have heard of Opera as a web browser, but I know them more for their mobile web browsing software. Before my current phone, I needed to get a better app than what came built-in. More and more my phone is the center of my communications. As you’ve seen from my posts in the past, I pretty much communicate 75% on my mobile and 25% with my laptop, leaving it to the design-y tasks.

The idea that the Internet has become (or will become more so) the center of our universe. But I realize that sharing on my devices still requires me to be online. My blog is served. My Twitter is on a server. My Facebook is also on a server. So the promise of cloud-based computing is a great one (everything available everywhere) but not when it comes to sharing. That’s where Opera Unite come into play. Opera Unite promises to,

…easily share your data: photos, music, notes and other files. You can even run chat rooms and host entire Web sites with Opera Unite. It puts the power of a Web server in your browser, giving you greater privacy and flexibility than other online services.

That’s a pretty radical and wonderful idea. We’re all going to be webmasters — in the same way we already do through our social networking sites, but in a more decentralized way. Get started with it now!

After the jump, some other new technologies from Opera.

Fingertouch
From their site, “Opera Fingertouch provides visual feedback when you hit a Web link on touch-based devices, and assists you when you come across multiple links or other selectable elements in close proximity to one another.”

Face Gestures
Use your onboard camera to browse — and maybe scare people who are watching you in Starbucks.