RockMelt Rolls Out Its First Big Update: Chromium 7, More Social, Better Gmail. You remember RockMelt, right?
After the social browser launched two weeks ago, talk about it exploded — then seemed to die down just as quickly. But today brings an update that may get people interested again. The service has just rolled out their first big update to their browser. Version 0.8.36.74 (sexy name) contains a number of bug fixes and stability improvements. It also updates the underlying Chromium browser to version 7 finally (for those keeping score at home, the Chromium open source project is already well into version 9).
With the first version (there have been small updates since the launch), to tweet or leave a Facebook status update, you had to click on your icon in the main toolbar. You can also now right-click on any of your Facebook friends in the Edge to message them, write on their wall, etc. Perhaps even better is the new Gmail Notifier App that RockMelt has built. What Is the RockMelt Browser? RockMelt Releases Web Browser for Facebook Era. Silicon Valley is awash in tales of the “PayPal Mafia,” the tight-knit group of PayPal alumni who have helped one another start and finance a crop of new companies.
But William V. Campbell, who is something of a godfather figure in the Valley, said in a rare interview, “There is a ‘Netscape Mafia,’ too.” And as mafia families sometimes do, the Netscape Mafia is coming together for a reunion, Miguel Helft of The New York Times writes. Watch a billion dollars come online overnight. New browser incorporates latest trends in Web technology. Marc Andreessen helped bring the World Wide Web to the masses by developing the Mosaic browser.
Now, more than 17 years later, a company he's backing thinks it's time to rethink the browsing experience. RockMelt's social web browser: out-Flocking Flock? RockMelt Browser Comes Out from Behind Its Rock. We first heard about RockMelt, a browser startup backed by the Netscape developer Marc Andreessen, just over a year ago.
It's been in stealth mode since then, but finally on Monday a beta version became available to the public. It's based on the fast, highly HTML5-compliant Chromium foundation that comes from Chrome Browser. PCMag.com met with RockMelt's founders Eric Vishria and Tim Howes last week for an early look at the new browser software.
RockMelt browser slithers onto interwebs. A beta of a new "social" web browser named RockMelt, which is based on Google’s open source Chromium code, was splashed onto the interwebulator today.
Organs as wide-ranging as The Daily Mail and, er, The Deadbolt, have reported the arrival of what is essentially a test-build of some browser software that plays nice with Web2.0 sites. But why all the excitement, you may ask? Well, the fact that RockMelt has multi-million dollar financial backing from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen helped get the software off its launch pad. The browser itself creepily operates like the monkey to Twitter and Facebook’s organ grinder. With social browser RockMelt, can users finally close their tabs? There’s been a flood of news coverage in the past day of RockMelt, a new Web browser that’s just opening to the public (in the sense that you can now request an invite).
The response isn’t surprising, since the founders have big ambitions and have been validated with funding from Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of Netscape. But there’s been some backlash too, in part because some of RockMelt’s promises sound awfully familiar. When I met with co-founders Eric Vishria (chief executive) and Tim Howes (chief technology officer) last week, they argued that Web browsers haven’t evolved to match the way we use them now — older browsers are still designed as if the core Web experience involves navigating from website to website, rather than interacting with friends. It’s a compelling argument, but it sounds rather similar to social browser Flock. Can RockMelt succeed where these other companies have failed? RockMelt: Secret New Internet Browser Launches.
The cold-blooded Roanoke killer kept getting fired, kept threatening co-workers, and kept claiming he was the real victim.
Vester Lee Flanagan claimed in a suicide note Wednesday that June’s massacre of black parishioners at a South Carolina church was “the tipping point” that sent him on the path to murdering two journalists on live television Wednesday. But in court papers and interviews with The Daily Beast, former colleagues describe Flanagan as a problematic employee, who was repeatedly reprimanded for his harsh treatment of coworkers, and complained racism was behind harsh evaluations of his work. “He just had a history of playing the race card,” former WTWC anchor Dave Leval told The Daily Beast.
“I know he did that in Tallahassee a couple of times…” The day Flanagan was fired from a Virginia TV station in 2013, his bosses called 911 because of his volatile behavior—an incident captured on camera by Adam Ward, a man who would later become one of his victims. RockMelt social browser launches in limited beta, we go hands-on.