7/03/2006
Flock Beta Released
There's been a lot of hype behind Flock - especially within tech communities. At this point, even the average person might have heard the name "Flock" but not known exactly what it was all about.
Flock is a web browser, like Safari or Internet Explorer, but with a big difference. Flock is considered a "social browser" because it integrates blogging, photo sharing with Flickr or Photobucket, "favorites" (a.k.a. bookmarks) using del.icio.us or Shadows, and other collaborative features with communities throughout the Internet. It is these social features that have gotten people so excited about Flock.
Flock is primarily focused on supporting the social dimension of the web, and on bringing information closer to the user. Right now this includes a heavy emphasis on the photo experience (from upload through discovery to notification), RSS support, dramatic improvements to the search box (including a new take on favorites), and blogging.
Some people may chose to only surf the Internet and not contribute content. However others who like to upload videos to YouTube, have a page on Myspace or like to blog will love a "social browser" like Flock. Using Flock basically turns your web browser into a broadcast tool.
Have you had enough of Internet Explorer? Looking to go beyond FireFox? Want to give back to the Internet? Give Flock a try. It's a free download from http://www.flock.com/download.
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Flock is a web browser, like Safari or Internet Explorer, but with a big difference. Flock is considered a "social browser" because it integrates blogging, photo sharing with Flickr or Photobucket, "favorites" (a.k.a. bookmarks) using del.icio.us or Shadows, and other collaborative features with communities throughout the Internet. It is these social features that have gotten people so excited about Flock.
Flock is primarily focused on supporting the social dimension of the web, and on bringing information closer to the user. Right now this includes a heavy emphasis on the photo experience (from upload through discovery to notification), RSS support, dramatic improvements to the search box (including a new take on favorites), and blogging.
Some people may chose to only surf the Internet and not contribute content. However others who like to upload videos to YouTube, have a page on Myspace or like to blog will love a "social browser" like Flock. Using Flock basically turns your web browser into a broadcast tool.
Have you had enough of Internet Explorer? Looking to go beyond FireFox? Want to give back to the Internet? Give Flock a try. It's a free download from http://www.flock.com/download.
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Except that even the browsers we have now don't adhere to the standards. That's why you have to have sites *designed* to be multi-browser compatible. If all browsers followed the standards, you'd write once, view with anything.
That said, Flock is just a different framework built off the gecko core. The number of browsers doesn't really make a difference, it's the number of rendering engines. And Flock doesn't add to that count.
That said, Flock is just a different framework built off the gecko core. The number of browsers doesn't really make a difference, it's the number of rendering engines. And Flock doesn't add to that count.
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: June 30, 2006 8:39 AM
: June 30, 2006 8:39 AM
Unless Flock committs to financially supporting Mozilla I wouldn't use it. I would rather use Firefox and support Mozilla. Flock seems to be another Apple, looking to score big on the back of Open Source. Apple is known for not giving back one bit to open source even though OSX is completely built from FreeBSD. It's true that they don't have to, but they are one of the few companies in that area that gives nothing. I was listening to an interview with the developer of SAMBA, and he was talking about how Apple is very strange that way... anyway, I digress. I just hope Flock at least gives back to the developers that created their product.
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