I've never been interested in Flock... it seems to me like nothing more than firefox with a skin and a few extensions installed by default.
Their graphics designer is amazing though.
tmsbrdrs
· 1 year ago
Try Flock out. It's way more than just a few extensions installed. It's like getting every single social networking extension available for FF and installing them all without any of the drawbacks associated with too many addons. They're fully integrated into the browser and allow an ease that makes it a joy to realize, if you don't want to, you never have to go back to those sites. In addition, the blog editor, photo uploader, clipboard and media bar all are far beyond anything I've seen in the realm of addons for FF, especially without causing more memory leaks than the system it's installed on can handle.
Joel
· 3 years ago
Even if the CEO has left, there are others capable, if not more capable, to take his place. I'm not worried.
Flock is my default browser. I do everything with it now... track new contacts photos at Flickr, post photos to Flickr, read RSS articles, post to my blog, and do all my bookmarks with del.icio.us.
It's not for everyone, especially if you're not into blogging, and picture/bookmarks sharing but as for me, Flock is perfect.
Brian
· 3 years ago
Right on! The graphics in flock are gorgeous.
Edd
· 3 years ago
Bit harsh to say that Flock "lacks substance", I've had it as my default browser for ages now and I find the built in tools highly useful - far better than any implementation made by Firefox extensions.
Will
· 3 years ago
The del.icio.us bookmark integration is a killer feature for me. I could care less about sharing my bookmarks with the world, but the integrated bookmark management tools are spectacular. I'm using bookmarks to keep track of sites I want to revisit for the first time in about ten years.
Omar Upegui R.
· 3 years ago
Hi Pete:
I think you're being too harsh with Flock. I've been using this social browser since it first came out as a Developer's Preview and have seen it evolve to become the best browser for blogging.
It widely excels at:
1. Search information on the Internet with the smart search engine features. 2. Photo management totally integrated with Photobucket and Flickr. No other browser comes close to what Flock is actually doing to aid the blogger manage and share photos. 3. Storing information using "Web Snippets" just by "dragging and dropping" it to the blog editor. 4. Blogging directly to a blog editor embedded inside Blog.
Tomorrow Flock will fix the memory leak problem which has not been addressed by Mozilla Firefox.
Bart Decrem is still the Chairman of Flock and and will oversee its operations. Steve Jobs left Pixar, but that didn't collapse that movie corporation. In fact, it later made a fabulous deal merging with Disney Studios.
No, Flock is not in for trouble. In fact it has just started to get better. Just wait and see.
Regards,
Omar.-
Pete Cashmore
· 3 years ago
Hey Omar,
Yeah, this is one of those hasty posts that I just flung out there - may update it later. I do think Flock has some merit, and I think it's easy to overreact to these announcements - many of the startups that seemed to be struggling have bounced back. My concern with Flock is that people outside the Valley just don't see the benefit - I'm also not a big fan of hyped-up launches, and maybe that makes me biased against them. What's more, getting most people to download software (particularly the Photobucket/MySpace gen) seems like a challenge. But I certainly think they're right to broaden their appeal beyond flickr and del.icio.us users, and I hope the PB integration works out.
Oh, and the graphics on Flock are indeed sweet.
Geoffrey Arone
· 3 years ago
Hey, this is Geoffrey, the other founder of Flock chiming in. First of all, I want to say thanks to the Flock fans on this thread. Also, the board asked Bart to transition to the role of Chairman so that we could grow the company to its next phase with a CEO more experienced in doing so. The truth is that Flock has raised more than the amount quoted in the original article. In fact, we have sufficient money in the bank to run the company for at least two years and DO have a search deal in place. So, if you are a fan of Flock's, stay tuned, there some exciting times ahead!
andy
· 3 years ago
flock is for geeks
myspace/photobucket users ...are not geeks
paying 10,000 dollars/month for an ad on techcrunch is an utter waste.
it doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out why this startup wont go anywhere
tmsbrdrs
· 1 year ago
Have you looked at Flock lately? It's still around and working with every major web 2.0 site. It's also more than capable of making any job requiring the use of email, Blogging type duties or any other use of the internet beyond a simple one page lookup a pleasure to do. It's lasted 2 years and will continue to get better for the forseeable future.
Will Pate
· 3 years ago
andy, I've heard from people of all walks of life that are using Flock and enjoying it. We have users and community members of many ages, countries and levels of geek status. We even welcome the misinformed ;)
Cheers,
Will Pate Community Ambassador, Flock
Paul B
· 3 years ago
I converted to Flock from Firefox the day it launched and I love it! Not being a tech geek it's really opened my world to blogging, photo sharing and bookmarking. In saying that though, I use those probably 1-2% of the time, it's mainly just a browser for me.
The average person won't download a Firefox plugin, I never did. With Flock it's built in and it makes you say "Oooh what's this? how can I use it?".
I must say my favourite feature is the "code snippet".
In my day job I consult to top & second tier enterprises regarding their Web solutions. I'm not a geek though, I'm a buinessman. I realise that as businesses grow, you need an experienced CEO to take the wheel. I think it's a positive. It's showing their moving forward and they're building the strong foundation it'll take to compete with the bigger browsers.
jaggs
· 3 years ago
The bottom line problem is that Flock may be pretty but it doesn't offer anything more than Firefox and in fact quite a bit less in terms of a large scale committed development community. It's going nowhere fast, and is destined to be a competitor of Opera and Safari in the low volume browser market. Is that a good basis for a business? Time will tell...
tmsbrdrs
· 1 year ago
Flock takes the core of FF and does things seamlessly that FF has never been able to do. It makes the internet easier to use than any other browser I've ever seen by taking every menial chore a person normally does and doing it for you. It's destined to make FF look like the poor cousin. It offers much much more than FF when first installed, integration with every major web 2.0 site, ease of use for blogging, ability to share photos or snippets of text just by dragging and dropping and the ability to check RSS feeds directly from the browser. If you collected the addons necessary to make FF able to do all of what Flock does, you'd have a monster you could never use. Flock does it all easily, seamlessly.
Daniel Bower
· 3 years ago
I'd like to echo the comments made by many people here.
Before Flock, which is my default browser at home, I had little interest in social bookmarking and photo sharing but it has quite simply revolutionised my experience of both such tools.
I find the delicious intergration with real time search functions simply breath taking, I now store thousands of bookmarks and re call them on a daily basis. The same is true of my flickr account.
The real time yahoo search is also very cool, and while I would prefer it to be Google I appreciate that there must be financial implications there.
I think Flock will have to try and do things to attract more users but at its heart is a good product and given the right time and management it should win more users over.
This is spurious rumour on my part but does anyone think a Yahoo! aquisition could be on the cards? A Yahoo! browser fully customised to work with Yahoo! tools would be a way to garner mainstream support.
Daniel Bower
· 3 years ago
I'd also like to point out the contrary to what has been suggested in the comments above, in an interview with TalkCruch back in June a discussion arose suggesting that Flock was not going to get attention from the geek crowd because it was built FOR the MySpace generation.
Hi Pete - i have to say that i'm situated well outside the 'valley' in rainy London, and I love Flock! It's one of the true pieces of web innovation around today. I'm looking forward to when they finally release version 1.0 (and i'm prepared to wait for it!)
Hi Geoffrey - congrats on such as fabulous web browser. Flock really is contributing to the evolution of the web. I'd just started using FeedDemon to read my hundreds of feeds, but the feed reader in the most recent version of Flock kills it. However, one of my biggest gripes is that my lovely FireFox plugins no longer work in Flock. So i still have to use FireFox.
s4ndm4n
· 3 years ago
I haven't read everything here just yet, but Flock is the browser I use pretty exclusively now. I give credit to Mozilla for creating firefox as the foundation, so its got a strong base. I think its a niche browser, because what I use it for mostly is for photobucket uploads and posts. If someone does a lot of blogging with pictures, and hasn't at least tried flock, I think they should. Its not earth shaking.. but some features that are very practical. I hope it sticks around..
s4ndm4n
· 3 years ago
Oh and I want to add also -- I'm A LITTLE outside the valley too On the Mid-Atlantic coast so, so much for that theory.
Terrence
· 3 years ago
Flock is a great browser, but is is a great business? It seems unlikely at this point.
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Their graphics designer is amazing though.
Flock is my default browser. I do everything with it now... track new contacts photos at Flickr, post photos to Flickr, read RSS articles, post to my blog, and do all my bookmarks with del.icio.us.
It's not for everyone, especially if you're not into blogging, and picture/bookmarks sharing but as for me, Flock is perfect.
I think you're being too harsh with Flock. I've been using this social browser since it first came out as a Developer's Preview and have seen it evolve to become the best browser for blogging.
It widely excels at:
1. Search information on the Internet with the smart search engine features.
2. Photo management totally integrated with Photobucket and Flickr. No other browser comes close to what Flock is actually doing to aid the blogger manage and share photos.
3. Storing information using "Web Snippets" just by "dragging and dropping" it to the blog editor.
4. Blogging directly to a blog editor embedded inside Blog.
Tomorrow Flock will fix the memory leak problem which has not been addressed by Mozilla Firefox.
Bart Decrem is still the Chairman of Flock and and will oversee its operations. Steve Jobs left Pixar, but that didn't collapse that movie corporation. In fact, it later made a fabulous deal merging with Disney Studios.
No, Flock is not in for trouble. In fact it has just started to get better. Just wait and see.
Regards,
Omar.-
Yeah, this is one of those hasty posts that I just flung out there - may update it later. I do think Flock has some merit, and I think it's easy to overreact to these announcements - many of the startups that seemed to be struggling have bounced back. My concern with Flock is that people outside the Valley just don't see the benefit - I'm also not a big fan of hyped-up launches, and maybe that makes me biased against them. What's more, getting most people to download software (particularly the Photobucket/MySpace gen) seems like a challenge. But I certainly think they're right to broaden their appeal beyond flickr and del.icio.us users, and I hope the PB integration works out.
Oh, and the graphics on Flock are indeed sweet.
myspace/photobucket users ...are not geeks
paying 10,000 dollars/month for an ad on techcrunch is an utter waste.
it doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out why this startup wont go anywhere
Cheers,
Will Pate
Community Ambassador, Flock
The average person won't download a Firefox plugin, I never did. With Flock it's built in and it makes you say "Oooh what's this? how can I use it?".
I must say my favourite feature is the "code snippet".
In my day job I consult to top & second tier enterprises regarding their Web solutions. I'm not a geek though, I'm a buinessman. I realise that as businesses grow, you need an experienced CEO to take the wheel. I think it's a positive. It's showing their moving forward and they're building the strong foundation it'll take to compete with the bigger browsers.
Before Flock, which is my default browser at home, I had little interest in social bookmarking and photo sharing but it has quite simply revolutionised my experience of both such tools.
I find the delicious intergration with real time search functions simply breath taking, I now store thousands of bookmarks and re call them on a daily basis. The same is true of my flickr account.
The real time yahoo search is also very cool, and while I would prefer it to be Google I appreciate that there must be financial implications there.
I think Flock will have to try and do things to attract more users but at its heart is a good product and given the right time and management it should win more users over.
This is spurious rumour on my part but does anyone think a Yahoo! aquisition could be on the cards? A Yahoo! browser fully customised to work with Yahoo! tools would be a way to garner mainstream support.
Listen: http://www.talkcrunch.com/2006/06/13/episode-9-...
Hi Geoffrey - congrats on such as fabulous web browser. Flock really is contributing to the evolution of the web. I'd just started using FeedDemon to read my hundreds of feeds, but the feed reader in the most recent version of Flock kills it. However, one of my biggest gripes is that my lovely FireFox plugins no longer work in Flock. So i still have to use FireFox.