Hasta La Gadget!

At some point you might have heard about Yahoo’s shopping spree. It has picked up quite a lot of services recently, the biggest being Tumblr, for $1.1 billion. Rockmelt, which is a self titled “social” web browser, has now been acquired by Yahoo. The deal has already been confirmed by both companies, financial terms were not disclosed. AllThingsD believes that Yahoo may have paid between $60 to $70 million for Rockmelt.

From now on Rockmelt will no longer be accepting any new users. Moreover, its four mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone will be shutdown on August 31st. Users have until then to export their data. Rockmelt said that it thanks its users for teaching them “a ton” and that they will put everything that they have learned to use working for Yahoo. Only a few months ago Rockmelt had announced that it would cease working on its browser project and instead focus on its mobile apps. The Rockmelt browser experience brought a user’s Facebook content as well as friend right beside all of the websites that they visited, but this “social” web browsing failed to generate a substantial user base. Yahoo says that it can’t wait to integrate Rockmelt’s technology in their platform to deliver best experience to its customers in new and exciting ways.

Yahoo Acquires Rockmelt, To Kill All Its Apps In One Month original content from Ubergizmo.

The Yahoo acquisition train just keeps on rolling! Rockmelt, the social browser news portal social content discovery service will be joining a growing cadre of properties that Marissa Mayer has snatched up. The platform, which seems to straddle the line between Pinterest and StumbleUpon, focuses on personalization and social networking as a way to highlight and serve up content it believes you’ll want to read or watch. Yahoo, especially through its homepage portal, has always been about serving up content, and the expectation is that Rockmelt will help the company better hone its understanding of you and what you love. The announcement post makes it clear that Yahoo plans to actually integrate Rockmelt’s technology with its existing platform, though, we’re gonna have to wait a bit longer to see exactly what that marriage may look like. Rockmelt will shut down its existing apps and services on August 31st this year.

Filed under: Internet

Comments

Source: Yahoo, Rockmelt

It was a good ride while it lasted, but the browser wars haven’t been kind to Rockmelt, which has announced that it’ll cease supporting its socially-inclined desktop browser sometime in the next few months. The decision was made because keeping up with the steady stream of updates for Chromium, the code upon which the Rockmelt browser was based, was simply too costly.

In its place, the company has announced Rockmelt for Web, a portal that may serve to alleviate some of the Reader rage many of us are experiencing. It aggregates content from “your favorite sites, your favorite people, and a dash of crazy stuff you never would have discovered,” so it’s like a combination of RSS, social networks and StumbleUpon. It’s an invite-only beta for now, though users of the browser and iOS app have already been invited to the party. The rest of you lot can get on the list by hitting the source and signing up.

Filed under: Internet, Software

Comments

Via: TechCrunch

Source: Rockmelt Blog (1), (2), Rockmelt for Web

Rockmelt for Web launched earlier today. The company touts it as a completely new way to navigate the web. It is in invite only beta at the moment, though current Rockmelt iOS and desktop users will be the first ones to have access to the new Rockmelt for Web. A couple of months ago the iOS app was updated and it was able to bring a beautiful stream of content from the user’s favorite websites and people, while still allowing them to use it as a browser. Building on that, the company has brought the idea over to desktop, but in an entirely different way.

You see, Rockmelt for Web is not actually a new browser. Rockmelt.com is now a visual stream which will pull content from the user’s favorite websites and people. The stream is highly personalized with great social integration, users can recommend content and their friends can react and comment on it. They can also @mention their friends, pivot on people and hashtags, explore categories and new sources. The experience is highly interactive, the company says they’ve pushed the boundaries of HTML5 and Javascript to deliver a very interactive app-quality experience.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Google Inactive Account Manager Takes Care Of Your Digital Assets After You Die, Jurassic Heart Dating Game Lets You Fall In Love With A T-Rex,