Filed under: Social Software, Browsers
Netscape founder backing Facebook-only web browser?
As if Facebook hasn't already taken over the world, reports are coming in that Netscape's founder Marc Andreessen is backing a new web browser (yes, another one of those) dedicated to viewing the social networking site we all know and love. The browser dubbed RockMelt, which is still very much in the design phase, is supposedly being worked on by all-stars in the development world like Facebook for iPhone developer Joe Hewitt, Firefox creator Blake Ross among others. The project is being headed up by the engineer behind Netscape Navigator, Robert John Churchill.
The rumors also say that RockMelt has it's own URL shortener at me.lt,but information about the browser was quickly taken down from that page.
We're not sure if this is going to be a client for Facebook or a browser that lets you browse the web while keeping your Facebook information, friends and news feed readily available. Either way, it seems kind of redundant to have yet another social media broswer (we all know how others like Flock are doing in this area).
Also, the rumors that people like Andreessen, Hewitt and Ross are behind this is strange. They're all very "web-savvy" guys and usually really in-tune with the noise surrounding social media sites and web browsers. At this point, there really isn't enough information to tell which direction this is going to take, but with all the Facebook clients and web-based operating systems already out there, this seems a little much.
[via Read Write Web]
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