Opera: "Cloud computing is a great move. However, it must go further to the Web of things"

Jon von Tetzchner is the CEO and cp-founder of Opera, one of the most important browser available in the world, alike Firefox, IE or Safari. Opera, based in Norway, has a workforce of more than 700 people in the world, with 55 nationalities. This company is borderless, geographically and to the extend that its products aim to be device agnostic : computer, mobile phone, e-reader, set top box, TV set, camera or... fridge, car GPS, boiler... "The operating system matters less and less", says Jon von Teztchner. Applications and content are more and more in the cloud of the millions of connected servers across the world that make the internet. The cloud computing is a natural move. Though, it won't be enough, thinks the co-founder of Opera. The future will rely on a Web of things, where devices will have a IP adress. The data they store will be directly accessible online. They will be like small servers.
"Take a camera, for instance, says Jon von Tetzchner. Most of the pictures remain on the memory card, because it take sometimes to transfer it on a computer and then share it with friends. But what if your friend can see it while connecting straight with your camera, with an authorized access provided by you?"
That is the future according to the Norwegian browser developper.
Open data will allow those evolutions.
Europe wil stil has a role, in that regard, like it had one when European companies worked to standardize the GSM norm for mobile telephony.
Emerging countries, Africa a.o., will also play a bigger role in terms of invention of new services and business models, believe Jon von Tetzchner, who underlines the huge potential represented in Africa and Asia (17% of population going online, so far) by the people who will get an access to the internet in the years to come.

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