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Based on Chromium, socially-focused web browser RockMelt (news, site) has grabbed plenty of attention during its private beta, but now it's open for everyone to try.

New browser on the block RockMelt aims to add social value to your browsing experience by doing things a little differently.

Statistically, Flock (news, site) is like the little browser that could, but didn’t. Translate that into numbers and you get 7.5 million people that have downloaded the browser, but only 1.1 million that actively use it.

So, why does Flock keep Flopping? Well, we’re not really sure. Dubbed the social Web browser, Mozilla-powered Flock is made up of all the things we typically love: integrated social networking, micro-blogging, chat, etc. Will the newly released 2.5 version be enough to finally take flight? Let’s take a look at the fresh features:

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• Facebook Verified App Directory Now Live
• Flock is Updated With More Support for Twitter, Other Services
• Facebook Accepts OpenID
• Should You Switch Back To Yahoo! For Search?

Desktop or browser-integrated blogging applications have been around for some time now and many are quite similar in function. Blogging suggestion tools that will suggest related articles, images and links based on what you are writing are also not new. But a partnership between ScribeFire and Zemanta bring the two together in an single browser add-on setup.

Social Media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here’s the week’s big stories from the Social scene, in scan-friendly format.

This Week:

• MySpace to Trounce Facebook With US$1 Billion ‘08 Sales
• Jobs Cut at Seesmic, but Digg is Hiring
• Twitter Gets New CEO
• Yahoo! Launches New Profiles, Social Strategy
• Browser Wars 1: New FireFox Beta 3.1 has Geolocation API
• Browser Wars 2: Flock Upgrade
• Twitter-Watch: Joe the Plumber

Flock, the self-proclaimed Social Web browser, recently released version 2.0 with a few notable upgrades, including the integration of their most requested service, MySpace.

That’s right, you read that correctly, the browser that relies on social networking for popularity and downloads just integrated the biggest social network of all.