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Andreesen Offers New Browser 'Rockmelt'

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that-poor-horse dept.

DrHeasley writes "Rockmelt, available for the first time Monday, is built on the premise that most online activity today revolves around socializing on Facebook, searching on Google, tweeting on Twitter and monitoring a handful of favorite websites. It tries to minimize the need to roam from one website to the next by corralling all vital information and favorite services in panes and drop-down windows. 'This is a chance for us to build a browser all over again,' Andreessen said. 'These are all things we would have done (at Netscape) if we had known how people were going to use the Web.'"

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  1. Wow shiny by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 3, Funny

    corralling all vital information and favorite services in panes and drop-down windows.

    You mean like tabs and bookmarks?

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  2. Rockmelt? WTH? by XxtraLarGe · · Score: 3, Funny

    How did they pick that for a name? It's like they had two dart boards, one with nouns, the other with verb. At least some of the other web browsers' names made sense, (Navigator, Explorer or Safari). Firefox, Chrome & Opera don't really make much sense either, but at least they don't sound ridiculous.

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    1. Re:Rockmelt? WTH? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 2, Funny

      How did they pick that for a name? It's like they had two dart boards, one with nouns, the other with verb. At least some of the other web browsers' names made sense, (Navigator, Explorer or Safari). Firefox, Chrome & Opera don't really make much sense either, but at least they don't sound ridiculous.

      It's not that bad. Look at it this way: one of the darts could have landed on "ass" and the other on "wipe".

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    2. Re:Rockmelt? WTH? by MachDelta · · Score: 2, Funny

      Maybe FaceMelt was already taken?

      (With my apologies for using a WoW joke)

  3. Re:RockMelt only works if you have a Facebook acco by MachDelta · · Score: 4, Funny

    Me too.
    Yet somehow i'm not that disappointed. It's sort of like not being eligible for a free drool-tray because I haven't had a lobotomy.
    Oh well.

  4. Social Product = $10million Funding by mrpacmanjel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nice money if you can get it.

    It seems Mr Andreesen has $10 million burning a hole in his pocket. That must have been some sales pitch.

    Not bad though, mention "Social Web" with your product and it equates to funding.

    I'm going to create my new product - The "Social Toilet" - it's a cubicle that everyone can share and allows you to twitter, facebook, search and share your poop.
    I'm going to need about $10 million to get me started.

  5. Re:Flock? Chrome Extensions? by mark72005 · · Score: 3, Funny

    So we don't have to use Chrome.

  6. To be fair... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    He characterizes his browser as a step up from NETSCAPE...I guess no one told him...

  7. Re:RockMelt only works if you have a Facebook acco by Whalou · · Score: 3, Funny

    I watched the video and it almost makes me want to have friends!

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  8. Re:Flock? Chrome Extensions? by nexttech · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hate to break it to you, But Rockmelt is based on Chrome

  9. Re:$10 says this fails miserably by Tridus · · Score: 2, Funny

    I won't bet on it failing until Gartner predicts that it'll be making $2 billion in revenue by 2014.

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