Miss Moonlight
11-21-2010, 08:04 PM
So, there's this new browser called Rockmelt (http://www.rockmelt.com/), it's a "proprietary social media web browser", that's built on Chrome's engine, and was published for early-access on Nov 8th of this month. It also isn't the first of it's kind (see Flock (http://www.flock.com/).)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAPKPhoTqFY
Upon watching the video, couldn't really help but notice that:
1. The ad tries way too hard to sound/look like a Mac ad.
2. It's based on chromium (which is open-source), but they didn't really do much to make it not look like chrome - the tab bar, right down to the star for adding bookmarks, is exactly the same. All they seem to have done was added "share" buttons, and a search bar. But these can already be added to google chrome via extensions. They could have at least tried to make it a tad different.
3. So ... why do we need a social networking browser? what's wrong with opening facebook and twitter ... in your existing browser?
As it's just "early access" (and you need an invitation to download), they may add new features later on, but I don't know, i'm not really impressed so far.
Opinions/thoughts?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAPKPhoTqFY
Upon watching the video, couldn't really help but notice that:
1. The ad tries way too hard to sound/look like a Mac ad.
2. It's based on chromium (which is open-source), but they didn't really do much to make it not look like chrome - the tab bar, right down to the star for adding bookmarks, is exactly the same. All they seem to have done was added "share" buttons, and a search bar. But these can already be added to google chrome via extensions. They could have at least tried to make it a tad different.
3. So ... why do we need a social networking browser? what's wrong with opening facebook and twitter ... in your existing browser?
As it's just "early access" (and you need an invitation to download), they may add new features later on, but I don't know, i'm not really impressed so far.
Opinions/thoughts?