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RockMelt Beta 2 Out Now

Armin Seuchter — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:39:32 +0000

RockMelt Beta 2 is now out, offering a new chat experience, the View Later feature, a new Twitter app, and Chromium 10 updates.

As it was the most requested feature, the chat bar has been completely redone, with chats now being placed in the chat bar at the bottom so as to remain visible while browsing. Notifications for incoming messages are now more subtle to boot, and chats can be turned into separate windows by dragging them off of the chat bar.

View Later, on the other hand, allows users to save any links and any URL from the App Edge for later viewing. Individual posts from Twitter, Facebook, and other feeds are included. If you want to visit something again at a later time, just click the View Later icon and it will be there waiting for you. View Later is also accessible from any computer as long as you download RockMelt and sign in into your account.

Along with a visual redesign, the new Twitter app boasts new features as well. Updates are viewed instantly, retweets can be edited, direct messages can be viewed, all users can be responded to at once, and Twitter can now easily be searched as well.

Last, but not least, RockMelt now benefits from the latest Chromium updates as well. All users will be updated to RockMelt Beta 2 automatically.

With Flock now being gone, perhaps RockMelt will fulfill the need for social web browsing.

RockMelt Beta 2 can be downloaded from here.

Flock Is Dead

Vygantas Lipskas — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:19:18 +0000

Flock, the social web browser that was acquired by Zynga back in January, 2011, is now shutting down.

April 26th, 2011 is the day when Flock support will be discontinued and company already suggests users to download an alternative web browser, such as: Firefox or Google Chrome.

Support for Flock browsers will be discontinued as of April 26th, 2011. We would like to thank our loyal users around the world for their support, and we encourage the Flock community to migrate in the coming weeks to one of the recommended web browsers listed below.

Why is Flock shutting down?

According to the official explanation, the team behind Flock is now working on the social games instead. Here is an excerpt from their FAQ section:

The Flock team joined Zynga in January, 2011 and is now working to assist Zynga in achieving their goal of building the most fun, social games available to anyone, anytime — on any platform.

Who’s next?

Zynga Buys Flock

Vygantas Lipskas — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:14:41 +0000

Zynga, a social game developer announced its plans to acquire somehow everyone’s forgotten, Flock web browser.

Although acquisition details were not revealed, according to some rumors, Google and Twitter were bidding for Flock as well.

Here is an excerpt from their blog post:

Our team will help Zynga in achieving their goal of building the most fun, social games available to anyone, anytime – on any platform.
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We thank our users for their unwavering support and dedication, and we’re thrilled to be going to a platform that shares our passion for combining great user experience and technology. What an awesome way to kick off 2011!

Weekly Questions Recap, November 1st

Vygantas Lipskas — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:45:54 +0000

Unresolved

Answered

Flock Ditches Firefox in Favor of Chromium

Vygantas Lipskas — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:25:59 +0000

Now here is a real bummer. Flock Inc., company behind well known social web browser has released the very first Beta of Flock 3.0.

What’s so special about that?
It appears that the latest version of Flock is now based on Chromium instead of Mozilla’s Firefox.

According to developers, this will help them to offer a much faster and better product for all the users.

There is also a bunch of new features, you may read more about them here.

Download Flock 3.0 (Windows only).

What do you guys think about this change?

Thanks to Blake, Sebastian Kraus and Shane Bundy for the news tip.

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Weekly Browsers Recap, January 11th

Vygantas Lipskas — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:48:46 +0000

Thanks a lot to Nox for links.

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Weekly Browsers Recap, December 21st

Vygantas Lipskas — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:23:33 +0000

Thanks to Nox for links!

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Weekly Browsers Recap, November 2nd

Vygantas Lipskas — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:37:34 +0000

Thanks to Nox for links.

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Weekly Browsers Recap, September 21st

Vygantas Lipskas — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:15:38 +0000

Thanks to Nox and Shane Bundy for links.

Webware 100 Winners Announced

Vygantas Lipskas — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:39:34 +0000

The final list of Webware 100 winners has been finally published on cNET.com.

So who won in browsing category?

Diigo
Firefox
Flock
Google Chrome
iGoogle
Internet Explorer 8
Maxthon
Opera
Safari
XMarks