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When it comes to HTML5 mobile Web app development, a lot of developers are waiting for a blue print of success to follow before jumping into the deep end. Sure, HTML5 mobile Web apps have the potential to change the entire mobile app ecosystem, but right now native apps are a tried and true channel that developers have come to trust. It will take several prominent and successful HTML5 mobile Web apps before the rest of the ecosystem jumps on the bandwagon.

One of the companies laying the architecture for a successful mobile Web app could be social conference directory Lanyrd. Today, Lanyrd is releasing mobile Web version of their app that will take advantage of HTML5's offline caching, making it easier to find your way around a conference filled with bandwidth guzzling revelers. For HTML5 developers, watch the way in which Lanyrd innovates within the spec and the blueprint for success may be in front of you.

Google just released the latest stable version of its Chrome browser, which adds support for multiple personal profiles. Chrome already has syncing of bookmarks, extensions, passwords and settings for one user, but today's release allows multiple accounts.

For shared computers, each user can save have his or her own settings, as well as switch between two different profiles, such as a work account and a personal account. This allows for a synced experience using Chrome on any device. All you have to do is log in, and all your browser settings appear.

Today's beta release of Chrome enables users to sync different accounts across multiple computers. This allows more than one person to sign into Chrome on a shared computer and have access to all their browser data. It also enables one person to have different Chrome profiles with different email addresses, e.g. work and personal, that can all be accessed from any computer by logging in.

Chrome currently syncs bookmarks, extensions, passwords and other personalized settings to the user's Google account. Signing into Chrome from anywhere, on any computer, will bring up the user's browser, just like at home. But the current stable release only allows one account. Today's beta makes it possible to use multiple Chrome accounts on any copy of the browser.

Third-party mobile browser Dolphin is releasing a new version of its Android product today that brings a host of improvements and features that will keep it competitive in the crowded mobile browser market. Dolphin for Android 7.0 introduces Dolphin Connect, which allows users to access their personalized settings from any Android device, such as browsing preferences, bookmarks and gestures.

The trick for Connect is that you have to sign up for a Dolphin account. A lot of users do not understand why or how browsers make money and can continue to survive. Mozilla made $200 $123 million this year (across its platforms) and even its investors are not really sure how. The answer (along with various other factors) rests with data.

Mozilla is again releasing a new version of Firefox for Android as the company's mobile development cycle is starting to look a lot like that of its desktop browser. The new Firefox for Android brings developers more tools to integrate Web experiences through the browser with a select group of APIs and standards that should align well with the trends of HTML5 and mobile development.

Firefox for Android uses Gecko version 6 for rendering and has instituted several new HTML5 standards, such as offline storage and native JSON. Most importantly though it that Mozilla has instituted the WebSockets API for Firefox for Android, which should make solving communication issues and event handling for developers much easier.

Are you getting "unfriended" on Google Plus? A new application called GoogleMINUS will tell you. Although Google Plus itself tells you when you're being added to Circles, it doesn't inform you when you're being removed from them. Was that one kitten post too many? Are you over-sharing? Maybe you're just doing this whole Circles thing wrong! Well, now you'll know.

RockMelt, the "social Web browser" built on top of Chromium, the open source version of Google's Chrome browser, has now partnered with Facebook on a new version, RockMelt Beta 3, out today. The updated software includes over 30 new features, including improved Facebook Chat and notifications, and a smart feature that knows when you're on Facebook.com. When Facebook.com is detected, RockMelt will deliver a more streamlined appearance where certain Facebook features are removed from the website and displayed within the Web browser itself.

Over a year after its launch on the iPhone, Norway-based browser maker Opera Software has at last ported its Opera Mini mobile browser to the larger form factor of the Apple iPad. The new universal iOS application, Opera Mini 6, brings a full-featured Web browser to both tablet and phone, offering a customized start page, tabbed browsing, password saving, social sharing and more.

If you're an early adopter type, you want to get things first. You don't want to wait for the first "unboxing" of a gadget on the Web, you want to be the unboxer, right? You don't want to wait for all the kinks to be ironed out, you want to see them in their first, raw nature. Reading reviews? Who does that anyway?

Opera announced today its own version for the early adopters, Opera Next, the potentially unstable and bug-ridden version of Opera for you early adopter types out there who want to know what's next.

We've known for months now that multiple user profiles were on their way to Google's Chrome browser, but now they've come even closer to reality as they hit the Canary build of Chrome.

Google watchdog blog Google Operating System reports today that the feature has made its way to the bleeding edge for early adopters and is even highlighted in Chrome documentation.