RockMelt For iPad

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/10/rockmelt-for-ipad-a-browser-built-for-touch-that-turns-the-web-into-a-feed-so-content-comes-to-you/

by ssclafani • 14 years ago

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shimsham• 14 years ago

great. more cat fotos.

duiker101• 14 years ago

Is it just me or is techcrunch's video player the worst thing ever? It starts automatically and when I play pause to stop it , a spinning wheel appears like it's buffering but the video keeps playing...wtf...

bruceboughton2• 14 years ago

How is this different to to Flipboard? This seems like their main competitor and I haven't seen anything yet that looks like an improvement over it.

>> “Go back 25 years to the flashing DOS prompt. That wasn’t accessible to someone like me. What Windows and Mac did was make it computing accessible to wanna-be nerds like me. But today, h t t p colon slash slash is not natural. It seems like something ripe for disruption.”

What a pointless soundbite. No one real has typed h t t p colon slash slash in about 10 years. Google and others before it solved that problem long ago.

josteink• 14 years ago

What a pointless soundbite. No one real has typed h t t p colon slash slash in about 10 years.

After Google decided to covertly introduce their own proprietary SPDY-protocol and to undermine standard HTTP, W3C and IETF "in the name of user-friendlessness" and Chrome started assuming that any non-canonical server-name (ie in a URL like "test-server/testapp/page") is a Google-search, I find myself manually prepending URLs like that with http:// all the time.

Granted. I'm not a normal user. It's not a normal internet use-case.

But browser-design as of late has made it increasingly needed to be specified. Someone, somewhere sat down and decided that this was a direction they wanted to go.

The URL-bar has always been a referentially transparent addressing-function. IMO making it not so is a very bad move, and it's sole purpose was to secretly promote yet another invasive Google-product into becoming a web-standard without involving anyone else for input.

bruceboughton2• 14 years ago

Perhaps, but what RockMelt is proposing is even less referentially transparent. My point is that the "problem" the quote proposes is not ripe for disruption as it has already been disrupted by search long ago.

antihero• 14 years ago

I think the issue that will always plague this is that firstly, when stuff is filtered through an app (ie not from the "source") there's a paranoia that something is being somehow missed.

Secondly, I like sifting through different sites (if they're built nicely), it adds variety - browsing is part of the experience of consuming content.

Also, there's an organisational overhead for setting up feeds. If you can just click on sites and explore, it's a different experience to adding feeds and refreshing. Consider it the comparison to doing your food shopping with a vague idea of what you want, and meticulously planning your groceries on-line and having it delivered. The latter is far more efficient, but the former is kinda fun in its own way and more entropic (which people enjoy in their lives).

I might be completely wrong, of course.

RockMelt For iPad

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