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Good news or bad news for RockMelt?
by Hipchan 15y ago
Good news or bad news for RockMelt?
- ryanglasgow 15y agoBad. It proves RockMelt doesn't solve a pain-point.
- gordonguthrie 15y agoI like RockMelt - I tried Flock but it did nothing for me... Does RockMelt have a business model? dunno. But RockMelt solves the pain of twitter/facebook/linkedin fire hoses (for me)
- ThomPete 15y agoI would pay for RockMelt. Simply love it.
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- brianbreslin 15y agowell if its got a deal with google similar to mozilla's it can make a good chunk of change with commissions on searches. mozilla generates well over $100M/year from google deal.
- tmitchell 15y agoThis figure appeared absurdly high to me on first glance, but Wikipedia says Mozilla earned $61.5M from search royalties in 2006. Total revenues were $104.3M in 2009, putting the estimated amount from search at around ~$90M. I don't know that that's necessarily all Google, but still an impressive sum.
- brianbreslin 15y agoI'd assume vast majority is from goog.
- experimental 15y agoThey collect a lot of personal information and considering Marc Andreessen is on the board of Facebook I won't trust a browser that has questionable practises like Facebook. Regardless there are addons which do what RockMelt does. The UI also is off, even if someone doesn't realise it. It is behind in updates so not good for security reasons.
- Uhhrrr 15y agoWell, it proves Flock _didn't_ solve a pain-point. I still would like a tool that manages all my social crap nicely.
- flyosity 15y agoFor normal people there's already a tool that does that: Facebook.com. Facebook is the Internet for a huge % of Internet users. I don't even think there is a pain-point.
- 1337p337 15y agoThere certainly are a few (at least) pain points with Facebook, even for "normal" users. Spam, for one. Something that makes it a little more accessible could take off, but a competing browser may not solve the pain points.
- generalk 15y agoIn all seriousness, what would that tool do? There may be a market for an app that will allow you to consume/manage your Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc, from one central location.
- Uhhrrr 15y agoOK. In all seriousness, my personal preference is a tool that would a)let me tag every connection, feed, and post arbitrarily, b)display the most common connections/posts/tags/posts-from-connection-tagged-x easily, c) let me specify tag groupings via drag-and-drop and command-line regex, d) handle all logins without jacking my privacy. I'll pay you zero dollars for it, but I'll let you show me relevant ads on alternate Thursday. You in?
- djjose 15y agoI just don't see this as a viable business (big enough market or a market sustainable by charging a large enough margin). It'd probably be a fun project to take on at one of the Hack-Weekend type events.
- dudurocha 15y agoI think its bad news. If Zynga, the biggest maker of social games do not want a social browser, maybe this means something. Or not... See when Zynga aquired the Flock team, the rumors where that they want to get the senior team of flock, and make them work for zynga. http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/05/zynga-flock/ http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/05/zynga-flock/ So now is just the annoucement of something that was already dead.