FLOCK (WEB BROWSER)

'Flock' is a web browser heavily based upon Mozilla Firefox and other Mozilla technologies. Flock is also the name of the company developing the browser. Flock's creators call it a "social browser", due to its ability to interact with popular social networking web services. Such web services include Flickr, Del.icio.us, Technorati, Photobucket, and various popular blogging and news aggregation services.

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Features

The company

References

See also

External links

Features

The current beta release has the following feature differences from Firefox:

★ Flock's custom homepage, "My World", tells you when your friends have new photos and videos and when you have new feeds. My World gives quick access to your recently visited favorite sites as well.

★ Bookmarks, in addition to being saved offline, can be replaced with del.icio.us. When a bookmark (known as a ''favorite'') is added, it is added to the user's del.icio.us account.

★ Favorites can be tagged

★ A favorites and history section are integrated into the favorites manager

★ Built-in full-text search using Clucene. Search as you type for pages in the cache

★ Flickr and Photobucket integration

★ Technorati tagging

★ Blogging tools

★ News aggregator

★ "Drag-and-drop" capability and a clipboard like feature known as "The Shelf."

★ Media Mini Bar, allows you to search, stream, and view content off of sites like YouTube and Truveo.

★ Built in uploader, to submit content to flickr and photobucket
Many of these features can be attained through extensions for Firefox. del.icio.us Bookmarks, developed by Yahoo!, Inc., provides integration with del.icio.us online bookmarks. Fotofox, developed as an official extension by the Mozilla Corporation, integrates with Flickr. Sage provides a built in news reader, similar to Thunderbird's.

The company

Flock is the successor to Round Two who raised money from Bessemer Venture Partners, Catamount Ventures, Shasta Ventures, and other angel investors. Bart Decrem and Geoffrey Arone cofounded the company.

References

★ Flock, Under Those Feathers

★ Flock, the New Browser on the Block

★ Killer Buzz Flocks to New Browser

See also

★ List of web browsers

★ Comparison of web browsers

External links

★ Flock homepage

★ Flock Wiki

★ Unofficial Flock screenshots

★ List of Flock Extensions