RockMelt, the hot social networking browser launched last November, just revealed its plans to expand to mobile with an iPhone app that brings a similar, fresh social browsing experience to your smartphone. VentureBeatreports that RockMelt for the iPhone, although primarily a web browser, is more of a “a mobile version of RockMelt’s App Edge.” It aggregates content from your favorite websites, with unread status and notifications, including updates from Facebook and Twitter....

The RockMelt Beta 2 has just been released and is available for immediate download for both Mac and PC in an effort to re-imagine the modern browser RockMelt Beta 2 a brings new chat interface, view later capabilities, a new Twitter app, and Chromium 10 browser functionality. The team at RockMelt is genuinely excited to introduce the latest revision. The journey to Beta 2 is the accumulation of 20 previous updates since November 2010....

The buzzword on everyone’s lips at the moment is social commerce. It’s the area within social media that shows the most promise as it represents a step towards change in the way people engage with social media. We’ve now progressed from using social media as a place to converse and share content, and as we build up trustworthiness in social channels we are becoming more comfortable with the idea of transferring money and allowing social technologies to transform the shopping experience....

First, let’s set the stage — There are social customer service platforms (GetSatisfaction,UserVoice, etc.) and then there are social platforms where companies can do customer service (Twitter,Facebook, etc.). For the sake of what I want to write about in this piece, we’re talking about the latter. By and large, the companies that are spending the time and money on the former are doing a pretty decent job of solving customer issues....

At the Inspire Conference back in June, The Next Web met a new startup calledLutebox, which sold itself as a “social entertainment hubfor premium content”. In Lutebox’s case, a social entertainment hub is basically an online hangout where users can stream, play and discover premium entertainment content and consume it in real-time with friends around the world. Lutebox is rolling out its alpha release today, and it’s initially only being launched to the UK in its formative months....