Sean Lind, a blogger at Manolution, offers a detailed (and huge) infographic showing the ups and downs in the history of computing by following Apple vs. Microsoft since November 1994. It will remind you that all was not always smooth electron sailing for Apple.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone to reform Obvious Corp.
Isaac "Biz" Stone
Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, reports on his personal blog that he is leaving the microblogging service. He will be joining Twitter cofoudner and former CEO Ev Williams and former VP of product, Jason Goldman as they relaunch Obvious Corp., the firm that incubated Twitter prior to its spin-off as an independent company.
Stone was named Entrepreneur of the Decade by Inc Magazine, one of the Most Influential People in The World by TIME magazine, Nerd of the Year by GQ, and one of Vanity Fair’s Top Ten Most Influential People of the Information Age.
Stone writes on his blog, “My work on Twitter has spanned more than half a decade and I will continue to work with the company for many years to come….I’ve decided that the most effective use of my time is to get out of the way until I’m called upon to be of some specific use.”
At Obvious, Stone writes, “Our plan is to develop new projects and work on solving big problems aligned along a simple mission statement: The Obvious Corporation develops systems that help people work together to improve the world.”
Mt. View CA-based RockMelt social web browser raises $3oM
Social web-browser startup RockMelt has raised a $30 million funding round, the company says. Investors include Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, Ron Conway, Josh Kopelman and Bill Campbell.
The company has raised a total of $39.9 million.
Founded in 2010, the company is offering a free beta version of its product but has yet to acquire a significant user base.
Earlier this month (June 14) the company disclosed a partnership with Facebook that Ben Horowitz from VC firm Andresssseen Horowitz called “a match made in geek heaven.” The partnership incorporates Facebook features into the browser so users can chat, send messages or do other Facebook activities wherever they may be online.
A previous attempt to make a socially oriented browser, Flock, was discontinued in April.
RockMelt built the “social browser” on the Google Chromium source code. We have just downloaded the browser and we’ll give it a test run and get back to you on what we think of it.
Have you tried RockMelt? Any opinions?
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