Minggu, 13 Maret 2011

Rockmelt : New Social Media Web Browser

Rockmelt is a proprietary social media web browser developed by Tim Howes and Eric Vishria. The project is backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen. Rockmelt integrates a unique technique for surfing the web that focuses on Google Search and Social Media, in particular Facebook and Twitter. the browser launched in private Beta on November 8, 2010, in order to download it, users are required to connect their Facebook and Twitter account to the website to receive an invitation email. Rockmelt supports Windows and Mac OS X platforms.



Rockmelt is based on Google's open source project chromium, a cross platform family of browsers (available for Windows, Mac, and Linux) that use on open source web layout engine webkit-joinly built by apple, google and the open-source community. But have Javascript  engine replaced by Google's own V8, also open source. Version 3+ of Flock, an older social web browser project and therefore a primary competitor to Rockmelt, is also based on Chromium.

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