Hanoi Morillo

I’ve been trying RockMelt for a few days and I have to day, it’s a cool idea. It’s only useful if you want to be connected and like to share sites in your Facebook or Twitter account. If you aren’t a “social animal” Rock Melt won’t give you any added value at all.
RockMelt is Chrome plus a social media overlay. But they still have to improve it quite a lot…

It has a some failures:
- When you open it, there’s a pop up appearing to log into Facebook. 90% of the cases the pop up doesn’t really work and it’s just a blank window.
- If you close that pop up without logging into Facebook, there’s nothing more than a simple browser. An exact copy of Chrome. When suddenly you decide to login, all your open tabs close and you’re in new window. Basically you lose what you were doing.
- No notifications for Facebook messages! This is pretty bad. If I receive a message through Facebook I don’t get any notification. You are only notified when someone comments on your status, or likes what you say. Nothing about receiving messages.

Apart from those 3 points, being the last two really annoying, the browser it’s ok.
What surprises me is the search bar. If you search there you see the results in a small window on the side and… there are no ads!!! Just the results. Check the screenshot!

And here it’s the fourth failure: when you click it doesn’t take you to a search page, you literally go to the website. Mmmm… don’t really like it if you’re researching but it’s ok if you want the result to show you a website for which you don’t really know the URL but remember part of it.

I read an article in Wired titled “The web is dead” and I found it really interesting.

Why is the web dying? Cause you don’t need to browse anymore… at least for certain things. I thought about myself… and yep, I’m gathering more and more apps every day so I don’t really need to surf the web to post on Twitter or Facebook for example.

There will always be sites but I can’t help asking myself… do we really need to browse when we have nice apps that do it for us? I can gather all the important info in one place instead of opening 5 different tabs.

You don’t even need to open your browser to read the newspaper if you have a News Reader. You don’t need to log into Facebook or Twitter with Hootsuite…

Are Apps the new glasses to see Internet?