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Flock, the Web 2.0 Browser?
escay writes "Cardinal, the Beta 1 version of Firefox-based browser Flock, was released Tuesday with many polished features. Some of the features include drag-and-drop photo uploading for Flickr and Photobucket, an in-built RSS aggregator, direct blogging tool, and shared favorites/bookmarks. In step with Web 2.0 philosophy, Flock provides a rich user-centric experience, making it easier to bring information to the user and vice versa. It is available for Linux/Mac/Windows, and you can download it here. (And for those of you trying to get Flash working in Firefox on an AMD64 Linux machine, try this and be pleasantly surprised!)"
A whole lotta bloat. Sad to see they've thrown the Firefox minimalist philosophy out the window. Features that less than 1% of 1% of their users will ever even look at have no place in a product. "in-built RSS aggregator, direct blogging tool" Give me a break.
What makes firefox work is that it's flexible. You chose to add a plugin or not. What does Flock provide? It forces you to accept its chosen plugins. That's bogus. I don't want any browser to chose my photo sharing community or be forced into using their web2.0 partners. Unlike firefox, the idea behind making this browser was funded from day 1 by a VC. You can bet Flock will sacrafice usability over turning a profit on their investment. I'm not a firefix expert but you can probably download firefox versions that come pre bundled with enough web2.0 extensions that it rivals Flock.
Read the flock blog entry about their business model. priceless. I wish they could film this company like they did in the movie startup.com...
That was really nifty what they where trying to do.
Make a lightweight browser with no frills.
Whatever happened to that browser ? (sarcasm)