FLOCK: A New Social Web Browser

[Michael Lang]

I was just reading an article in Fortune magazine about Marc Andreessen, the co-author of Netscape, and his new gig, Flock.
He says that Flock is a "social browser" that's designed to work seamlessly with blogs and web services like Flickr and Facebook.
I just started to play with Flock, http://www.flock.com/ , so I do not have any comments at this time however anybody that knows Andreessen knows that he is usually ahead of the curve and worth paying serious attention to.
Check it out...for all I know Jack may have already written about this but I haven't seen it yet so I thought I'd toss it out there for the members of SMC.
Happy surfing!

Mike Lang
The Lang Report

[Mark Gittelman]

This flock browser looks very cool and interesting. The version 1.0 is kind of scary though. Please let us know how this works for you!

[Ola]

I am user of flock and I think it is quite "neat"! Because it is still in its infancy, It is yet to maximise its full potential. Presently, Flock integrates blog, news aggregation, and social networking sites including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger, and others. When users log in to any of the 15 supported social services, the browser asks them if it should remember their account. If a user does so, Flock will announce when friends have uploaded photos or published other items. It also "allow easy media sharing via drag and drop, easy photo uploading, and a built-in blog editor for easy posting from anywhere on the web.

Issues like bugs, and the limited numbers of integrated social media services makes the product more of a "whimper” rather than a "bang" that it deserves. However. I have faith that would improve with their latest 1.1 versions which is due out at any moment.

[Ian Sharp]

Flock has become my main browser. It's built on Firefox and so far all the Firefox extensions I've tried work just as they do in Firefox itself.

Plus it's easy to keep up with Twitter, Facebook, people generally, video ... any aspect of social networking. And I love the design too.

I'd recommend anyone on here gives it a go. Haven't found any bugs - except I did out a beta of the 1.1 version on my iMac and that's quit unexpectedly a couple of times - but it is a beta.

Ian

[Ola]

Ian

I am trying to add other SEO extensions to flock. I have managed a few, however there are more that I cannot ad like Pagerank and other SEO tools. Could you please teach me how??

[Ian Sharp]

Hi Ola,

All I've done so far is visit the Firefox extensions pages (while in Flock), downloaded the ones I wanted, and Flock installs them. I'm not an expert on this but I'm assuming Flock is really Firefox with some social networking bells and whistles and a different skin.

That said, Flock isn't Firefox so not all extensions are guaranteed to run - very much a case of trial and error really. Unless anyone knows otherwise I believe no harm is done if an installation fails.

Ian

[Ray Loesch]

I have downloaded and started using Flock. So far it seems to be working out okay, I would like to see other social networks added though.

[Alex Sysoef]

Mike,

I have used Flock and used to love it - most of the plugins from Firefox install seemlessly into it. I found one huge issue - I couldn't save and export my bookmarks, nor could I use same set of bookmarks across multiple PC like I do with FoxMarks plugin now. It was a big issue with browser so watch out for that one, unless it is already fixed.

[Raphanius Levant]

I'm using Flock right now and I think its outstanding. All my Firefox bookmarks transfered over to Flock on the install and it keeps bookmarked all my social networking sites and feeds. Its less buggy than Firefox although built on the same framework. Plus theres a whole range of double entendre with the name so...get Flocked!

[Michael Lang]

Good luck with it. I haven't had much time to mess with it.

Mike Lang
The Lang Report

[Raimi]

wow this looks cool. Will try it..