New browser experience or just another gimmicky social networking facilitator?

http://www.rockmelt.com/



NYT Review

RockMelt: The User Manual

By PAUL BOUTIN

RockMelt’s browser interface.

Last week, a start-up company called RockMelt unveiled a free browser for PCs and Macs, customized for people who live on social networking sites. RockMelt has gotten a lot of attention, because the company’s management and investors include several of the “Netscape mafia” who built the first widely successful browser in the early 1990s, including the Silicon Valley wunderkind Marc Andreessen.

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RockMelt’s goal is to let people keep on top of Facebook, Twitter and Google as quick, efficient side tasks, rather than going to separate sites for each. The company plans to add support for other sharing services, too, like Flickr, YouTube and LinkedIn. There are plenty of other social-network-console products already out there, but RockMelt’s clever implementation is worth a spin.