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Flock (web browser)

Flock
Flock icon
Flock Screenshot.png
Flock 3.5.3 running on Windows 7 displaying the Flock's new tab page.
Developer(s)Flock, Inc.
Initial releaseApril 11, 2005; 7 years ago (2005-04-11)[1]
Discontinued3.6.4 (February 3, 2011; 2 years ago (2011-02-03)) [±] [±]
Preview releasenone (n/a) [±] [±]
Development statusDiscontinued – April 2011.[2]
Operating systemFreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X (Intel), Windows
Available inCatalan, Chinese (both Traditional and Simplified), English (US, Australian, British, Canadian), Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal + African Portuguese Speaking Countries and Brazil), Russian, Slovak, Spanish (Latin American and Spain)
TypeWeb browser
LicenseProprietary Software[citation needed] and GPL, some components also LGPL+MPL
Websiteflock.com

Flock was a web browser that specialized in providing social networking and Web 2.0 facilities built into its user interface.[3] Earlier versions of Flock used the Gecko HTML rendering engine by Mozilla. Version 2.6.2, released in July 2010, was the last version based on Mozilla Firefox.[4][5] Starting with version 3, Flock was based on Chromium and so used the WebKit rendering engine.[6][7] Flock was available as a free download, and supported Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X platforms (previously also Linux).

Support for Flock was discontinued in April 2011. A year later in April 2012 the old Flock website was back and carried a vague indication that the project might be resurrected, inviting readers to add themselves to a mailing list to receive future news.[8][9][10]

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History

Flock was 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 co-founded the company.[11] Flock raised $15 million in a fourth round of funding led by Fidelity Ventures on May 22, 2008, for an estimated total of $30 million, according to CNET. The company's previous investors, Bessemer Venture Partners, Catamount Ventures, and Shasta Ventures, also participated in the round.[12]

In January 2011, Flock Inc. was acquired by Zynga.[13] The browser has been discontinued, with support ending April 26, 2011.[14]

In April 2012, a page appeared on flock.com with a quote from Mark Twain stating "The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated," and provided a signup form where users could enter their email to receive "updates".[10]

Features

Flock 2.5 integrated social networking and media services including MySpace,[15] Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, etc.[16] When logging into any of the supported social services, Flock can track updates from friends: profiles, uploaded photos, and more. Flock's latest 2.5 version added Twitter Search functionality, multi-casting of status updates to multiple services, and the introduction of instant messaging via Facebook Chat in the browser.

Other features include:

  • Native sharing of text, links, photos and videos[17]
  • A "Media Bar" showing preview of online videos and photos as well as subscription to photo and video feeds[7][18]
  • A feed reader supporting Atom, RSS, and Media RSS[15] feeds[19]
  • A blog editor and reader, allowing direct posting into any designated blog[20]
  • A Webkit-mail component allowing users to check supported web-based email off site, compose new messages, and drag-and-drop pictures and videos from the "Media Bar" or webclipboard into a new email message[21]
  • Support for third-party add-ons, including a number of Firefox extensions[7][22]

Reception

  • Download.com rated it 5 out of 5 [23]
  • Ranked no. 6 on PC World's list of the 100 best products of 2008 [24][25]

In December 2007, Flock won the Mashable Open Web Awards for Applications and Widgets[26] and in March 2008, Flock won the South By Southwest[27] Web Award for Community.[28]

CNET gave the Mac OS X version of Flock 1.0 the title of "Best Mac Software of 2007".[29] PC World's Harry McCracken reviewed Flock as his "New Favorite Web Browser".[30]

In February 2008, AOL announced that it would discontinue support for the Netscape browser, and recommended Flock and Firefox as alternative browsers to its userbase of Netscape 9 users.[31] For the Netscape 8 userbase, AOL recommended only the Flock browser to its users.[32] In March 2008, Flock announced that they had seen "nearly 3 million downloads" and a 135% percent increase in active users in the first two months of 2008. They also announced "more than 70 percent of Flock users making it their default browser of choice".[33]

In May 2008, Flock won the Social Networking category of the Webby Awards.[34][35] Flock was nominated for this award along with Facebook, Bebo and Ning.

When Flock's discontinuation was announced in April 2011, reviewer Joey Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! offered the analysis: "Whether this was down to poor implementation design wise (one needs only glance at 'Rockmelt' for an example of a social browser done right) or just general apathy towards having alerts from twitter, flickr, facebook, digg et al. in your face all of the time is moot: Flock has flocked off and for all its innovation it never quite lived up to its own hype."[8]

Awards

Upon exiting beta, Flock won a number of awards:[23]

  • "Eddy Winner": Flock 2.0 24th Annual Macworld Editors' Choice Awards [36]

See also

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References

  1. ^ Festa, Paul (11 April 2005). "Start-up wants to improve on Firefox". CNET. http://news.cnet.com/Start-up-wants-t o-improve-on-Firefox/2100-1032_3-5663 798.html. Retrieved 2010-08-02.
  2. ^ Flock website Retrieved April 11, 2011
  3. ^ Flock Browser – Built on Mozilla's Firefox[dead link]
  4. ^ "Flock 2.6.2 Release Notes". Flock. http://www.flock.com/release-notes/2. 6.2. Retrieved December 9, 2010.
  5. ^ "Powered by Mozilla". Flock. http://flock.com/mozilla. Retrieved December 9, 2010.
  6. ^ Iedtke, Michael (June 16, 2010). "Flock Browser Gets Faster, Friendlier With Upgrade". ABC. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wire Story?id=10926024. Retrieved June 17, 2010.
  7. ^ a b c Wayner, Peter (October 19, 2010). "Top 10 specialty Web browsers you may have missed". InfoWorld. p. 2. http://www.infoworld.com/d/applicatio ns/top-10-specialty-web-browsers-you- may-have-missed-026?page=0,2#flock. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
  8. ^ a b Sneddon, Joey (April 2011). "End of the line for Flock social browser". OMG Ubuntu. Retrieved April 15, 2011. 
  9. ^ Flock Inc (April 15, 2012). "Support for Flock browsers has been discontinued.". Archived from the original on April 29, 2011. http://web.archive.org/web/2011042902 0200/http://www.flock.com/. Retrieved April 10, 2012.
  10. ^ a b Flock.com (undated). "Flock". http://flock.com/. Retrieved April 26, 2012.
  11. ^ Flock Browser - Company Info[dead link]
  12. ^ "Flock draws $15 million for social browsing". CNET. http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-995 0303-7.html?dlbk. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
  13. ^ Wasserman, Todd (2011-01-07). "Zynga Buys Social Web Browser Flock". Mashable. http://mashable.com/2011/01/07/zynga- buys-flock/. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
  14. ^ Van Grove, Jennifer (2011-04-12). "Flock Shutters Social Web Browser". Mashable. http://mashable.com/2011/04/12/flock- folds/.
  15. ^ a b Official release announcement on Shawn Harding's blog[dead link]
  16. ^ "Activate Services and Unite Your Social Networks in the People Sidebar". User guides. Flock. http://www.flock.com/user-guide/2.0/a dvpeop.html. Retrieved 2008-10-22.
  17. ^ "Share Pictures, Text, Audio and Video". User guides. Flock. http://www.flock.com/user-guide/2.0/a dvshar.html. Retrieved 2008-10-22.
  18. ^ "View and Share Media through the Media Bar". User guides. Flock. http://www.flock.com/user-guide/2.0/a dvmdia.html. Retrieved 2008-10-22.
  19. ^ "Track Feeds". User guides. Flock. http://www.flock.com/user-guide/2.0/a dvfeed.html. Retrieved 2008-10-22.
  20. ^ "Activate and Manage Blogs". User guides. Flock. http://www.flock.com/user-guide/2.0/a dvblog.html. Retrieved 2008-10-22.
  21. ^ "Review: Strong, innovative Web browsers emerge". Associated Press. Retrieved 2008-06-26. [dead link]
  22. ^ "Get or Build Add-ons for Flock". User guides. Flock. http://www.flock.com/user-guide/2.0/a dvextd.html. Retrieved 2008-10-22.
  23. ^ a b c d "Flock's press". http://flock.com/press.
  24. ^ a b c "Flock Named As One of PC World's "100 Best Products of 2008"". http://flock.com/node/62277. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
  25. ^ "The 100 Best Products of 2008". PC World. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,146 161-page,12-c,electronics/article.htm l. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
  26. ^ December 21, 2007 by Adam Hirsch 86 (21 December 2007). "Open Web Awards Winners". Mashable.com. http://mashable.com/2007/12/21/open-w eb-awards-winners/. Retrieved 2012-05-21.
  27. ^ Web Awards
  28. ^ McCarthy, Caroline (11 March 2008). "Oh wait! SXSWi had Web Awards, too". News.com. http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9890 955-36.html. Retrieved 2012-05-21.
  29. ^ Parker, Jason (20 December 2007). "Best Mac Software of 2007". Download.com. http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-9 835869-12.html. Retrieved 2012-05-21.
  30. ^ I Have A New Favorite Web Browser: Flock
  31. ^ "Netscape 9 Users: Time to Flock or Firefox". Blog.netscape.com. 20 February 2008. http://blog.netscape.com/2008/02/20/n etscape-9-users-time-to-flock-or-fire fox/. Retrieved 2012-05-21.
  32. ^ "Netscape 8 Update Forthcoming: You Can Flock Too!". Blog.netscape.com. http://blog.netscape.com/2008/03/19/n etscape-8-update-forthcoming-you-can- flock-too/. Retrieved 2012-05-21.
  33. ^ "Flock Browser Use Growing Dramatically". Reuters.com. http://www.reuters.com/article/pressR elease/idUS121331+10-Mar-2008+BW20080 310. Retrieved 2012-05-21.
  34. ^ "2008 Webby Award Winners". Webbyawards.com. http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/cur rent.php?season=CURRENT_SEASON#webby_ entry_social. Retrieved 2012-05-21.
  35. ^ Flock Wins a Webby Award for Best in Social Networking[dead link]
  36. ^ Michaels, Philip. "Eddy Winner: Flock 2.0". Macworld.com. http://www.macworld.com/article/13726 9/2008/12/eddyawards_flock2.html. Retrieved 2012-05-21.

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