Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Flock: A Social Browser

I've just accidentally found out about a new browser called Flock from Mozilla. The latest version is based on Firefox 2, and they are making a new one which is based on Firefox 3, but what differentiates it from the other browsers is that they call it a social browser, meaning that it includes the inner capabilties to connect with social websites such as Flickr, Blogger, Facebook, GMail, etc.


I am trying it right now, and in fact I am publishing this post using Flock, and it does seem easier for me to blog compared to Firefox. Well, Flock has been around for some time actually, and that makes me wonder why it hasn't caught on with the other browsers ? But if you are a web guy, publishing a lot of posts in your blog, using Facebook, Digg often, then I think this browser will increase the effectiveness of your activities, a lot.

I'll play around with this browser for a while, doing what I have done with Firefox 3.0 until now before giving further comments. But really, in the era of the second browser war among IE, Safari, and Firefox, this is a great idea.

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6 comments:

k said...

is there a second browser war?

Sindharta Tanuwijaya said...

We are in the middle of it.

Wikipedia

k said...

second browser war as in browsers fighting for second place, you know, as the user's choice of a second browser? or the second browser war?

Sindharta Tanuwijaya said...

The second browser war, of course.

k said...

really? i thought safari won that a long time ago ^^

Sindharta Tanuwijaya said...

Well, Safari is also good though. But without any proof or citation, I think that only happened in the head of an Apple mania which, of course does not represent what is actually happening :)

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