RockMelt is a new browser Backed by Marc Andressen
By Azam on August 14, 2009 
RockMelt is described as a browser focus on facebook social content. The project is brings former team of engineers from Andreessen’s Opsware, and from HP, which bought Opsware for $1.6 billion in 2007. Andreessen and Opsware co-founder Ben Horowitz launched a new venture fund for web startups last month. Andreessen is closely tied as a board member on Facebook and has been a proponent of facebook opportunity and large potential for revenues in the social media space.
The RockMet is actively working on the project and may involve Facebook staff as well, including Firefox creator Blake Ross and Facebook iPhone app developer Joe Hewitt. Ross and Hewitt came to Facebook two years ago when their secret project called desktop/web project ParaType. Robert John Churchill, who was the principal engineer for Netscape Navigator, is the principle engineer for RockMelt.
RockMelt also has its own short URL offering me.lt which are used to share and refer urls to users in a shortend format that can be mirco blogged on popular social networks.
The move mirrors the need to harness the social media information in a more easily digestible format that is a problem with real time post. Another social media phenomenon Twitter has applied search technology to allow users to make more sense of the firehouse on info being distributed in real time and build a more intelligent manner of discerning info that maybe related. It would only be a natural evolution to do similar feature for a social media platform like facebook.
Categories : Media & Ads, TechTags : Ben Horowitz, Blake Ross, Facebook, Firefox, Joe Hewitt, Marc Adreessen, Me.lt, Robert John Churchill, RocketMelt