Archive for November, 2010
Rock Melt
There is an interesting new web browser out called RockMelt, developed by the creators of Netspace.
The new browser is geared towards modern day users and common web browser usage, for activities such as searching information on Google, and interacting with social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook.
Given the Netspace influence, it will be very interesting to see what sort of reaction the community has to this browser. Netspace was one of the first graphical web browsers used mostly in the 90s, before Microsoft started bundling Internet Explorer into Windows, and got themselves into a world of trouble with anti-trust suits.
Given a substantial capital investment of $10 million by Marc Andreessen’s company (the creator of Netscape Navigator), and the current dominance held by Microsoft (60%), and substantial competition from Mozilla (Firefox holds approx 20%) and Google (Chrome browser holds approx 9% market share), it would seem that Andreesen is confident his browser will have moderate success, and will provide a different experience to the rest.
Free download of Rock Melt is by Invitation only. See http://www.rockmelt.com/ for more.
