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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. Re:$10 says this fails miserably by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Except Andreesen didn't write it, his VC firm funded it. Considering Andreesen has also invested heavily in Digg and Twitter, I'd say he has a decent track record there.

  2. Re:You log in to RockMelt by lattyware · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I love how it makes a big thing about being all 'on the cloud' - access your settings anywhere! Would be impresive if Mozilla hadn't just pushed out Firefox Sync across the board. This whole idea seems like something that would have been impressive 4 years ago.

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    -- Lattyware (www.lattyware.co.uk)
  3. Re:$10 says this fails miserably by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    invested heavily in Digg and Twitter

    he has a decent track record there.

    So which is it?