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Rockmelt Will Shut Down Social Browser To Focus On Funneling The Web Into Its New Content Feed Site
— “Distributing a desktop browser is hard and expensive (especially if you don't have an operating system or the world's most trafficked website to promote it)” says Rockmelt …
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Rockmelt social browser comes to iPhone, Android version still in development
— When we heard Rockmelt was going to announce some news about its social browser becoming available to lots more people, we assumed that meant the Android version was finally ready. Not quite: turns out the company was just referring iPhone users.
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Apps Like Rockmelt Ditch Social-Only Signup, Add Email So Privacy Buffs Can “Try Before You Pry”
— Rockmelt's recently released iPad app only offered signup through Facebook and Twitter, leading 50 percent of users not to sign in at all. So today it followed Pinterest and Spotify …
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RockMelt For iPad: A Browser Built For Touch That Turns The Web Into A Feed So Content Comes To You
— Surfing the Internet can feel like you're running in circles, constantly checking your favorite sites for updates. The RockMelt team believes that content should be delivered, not hunted …
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz And Khosla Back Big Data Startup ClearStory
— There's more money from big-name investors for big data. ClearStory Data, a newly launched startup focused on bringing big data technology to the masses, has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding …
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New RockMelt socializes Chrome's Omnibox, new tabs
— The Omnibox has been beefed up in RockMelt beta 5 with deep hooks directly into Facebook. — While the big browser conflagration between Chrome and, oh, just about everybody else tends to suck the oxygen from a room …
| Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: |
Accel, Khosla, and Andreessen Horowitz Pour Another $30 Million Into Social Browser RockMelt
— Is there a future for social browser startup RockMelt? Despite attracting only a few hundred thousand active users since its much-hyped launch, the company filled with ex-Netscape rockstars …
| Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Is Taking A Special Interest In RockMelt's Social Browser
— Ever since RockMelt launched its social browser, it's been known unofficially as the Facebook browser. Facebook chat, status updates and sharing are all built right into the browser. Now Facebook and RockMelt …
| Colleen Taylor / GigaOM: |
RockMelt Goes Mobile With iPhone Offering
— RockMelt, the Mountain View, Calif.-based startup, is set to launch a mobile version of its browser with built-in social features. RockMelt's move into mobile this week comes just one month after the public debut of its desktop browser.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).