Flock - "The Social Web Browser”

The Flock Browser is an open-source web browser developed primarily by Flock, Inc. using much of the source code from Mozilla Firefox. It is available for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh OS X. As you may be able to tell from it’s name, Flock aims to be the browser of choice for people who utilize social networking services such as Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Del.icio.us, and just about everything else. In addition to integrating many of the most popular social networking sites directly into the browser, Flock also helps to enable blogging and news aggregation (you can see my Facebook sidebar, this blog post as it is being typed, and my RSS Feed of The Onion in the screen shot below).

I’ve only been using Flock for a few short hours, but its ease of use and slick integration features are quite impressive. Based on this short trial, Flock is involved in almost all of the ’service categories’ from the class discussion on Web2.0 services: file sharing, web logs, podcasts, subscription aggregation, and social tools. Additionally, I’m quite sure that I have only scratched the surface of Flock’s capabilities, and the fact that it is built on top of Mozilla Firefox means that it is also open source and highly extensible for anyone interested in adding additional features. Anyone that ‘lives’ on the web should give this browser a try.

-Scott Blackburn

Flock Browser: http://www.flock.com/
Wikipedia Entry on Flock: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_%28web_browser%29

This screen shot was uploaded to my Flickr account from within Flock:

Blogged with Flock

Tags: flock, browser, social, web2.0, blog, rss, firefox, mozilla

~ by sblackburn on January 22, 2008.