FLOCK: A Social web browser

Information Technology is a backbone of any organization, today everyday there is new development is going on in IT industry. Internet is a mystery and like a “BULBULLIA” in hindi means a puzzle, its so deeper and full of variety. Today when I was searching for something I found very interesting and highly customized web browser released few days back.

FLOCK
Flock is a web browser heavily based upon Mozilla Firefox and other Mozilla technologies. It is also the name of the company developing the browser. It’s 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.

Launched on 13th October,2007

CEO: Shawn Hardin

Its highly customized and have various features which are not available in any of existing web browsers. Have a look at these features:

• 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.
• Favorites can be tagged
• A favorites and history section are integrated into the favorites manager
• 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.

For bloggers and regular internet users, its like their dream what they were expecting from web browsers comes true.

For Photo lovers: Flock provides direct and speedy uploading of up to 1,000 photos in one session to Flickr, the ability to quickly and easily edit photos before uploading, and the ability to surf and share Flickr photos in the Media Minibar, and updates you when your friends have new photos on Flickr.
For Bloggers:Flock’s Blog Editor allows you to post text and photos directly to your Blogger blog.
Ma.gnolia provides online favorites hosting and sharing. You can save your favorites to the Flock browser and Ma.gnolia simultaneously with the Flock Star and Favorites Sidebar.



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FLOCK PRESS
FLOCK WEBSITE
FLOCK (wiki)