Flock (web browser)

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Flock

Flock 0.7.1 beta release
Maintainer:	Flock, Inc.
Stable release:	not yet released _[+/-]
Preview release:	0.7.8 (Cardinal) (November 10, 2006) _[+/-]
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	Web browser
License:	GPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
Website:	www.flock.com

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Flock is both a web browser heavily based upon Mozilla Firefox and other Mozilla technologies, and is also the name of the company developing the web 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.

1 Features
2 The company
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Features

The first technology preview released on June 22, 2006 had the following features:

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 are integrated into the favorites manager
Built-in full-text search using Clucene. Search as you type for pages in the cache
Flickr integration
Technorati tagging
Blogging tools
News aggregation
"Drag-and-drop" capability and a clipboard like feature known as "The Shelf."
Built-in spellcheck capability

Additional features in recent preview releases:

Private bookmarking is supported with the introduction of the ability to store bookmarks at Shadows.
A Yahoo! Maps topbar has been introduced. Addresses can be dragged into the topbar, whereupon they will be mapped by Yahoo! Maps. This feature was then removed, to be re-introduced at a later date. On July 17, 2006, the Yahoo! Maps Topbar was reintroduced as an extension.
Uploading images to Photobucket is now supported.

[edit] 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.