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Rockmelt says goodbye to its social web browser, says hello to Rockmelt for Web

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Rockmelt says goodbye to its social web browser, says hello to Rockmelt for Web

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.

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Via: TechCrunch

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

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