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Flock, the UK Magazines opinion!
netmag.co.uk — Flock has been reviewed in the UK by a popular internet magazine. It's good reading ;-)
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- jakedahn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0sweet
- Choco111, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It is a good magazine too.
- Seumas, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Never heard of "Flock", but it sounds stupid. Unless, perhaps, you're twelve years old.
Also, is that UK Magazine? With the U and the K pronounced as separate letters? Or is that like US Weekly, which is not U - S Weekly, but "US" Weekly? - Choco111, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No, it is a magazine in the United Kingdom.
The magazine is called .net, it is a magazine about the internet and web development. - rh91uk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Read up on it Seumas - then you'll find out more about it
- jrepin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Looks like a great Firefox based web browser (and muh more). I'll sure keep checking it out.
- thewordwasgod, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0flock is a retarded project (that will fail) that targets blongers and idiots.
sorry - everyone knows it - the flock guys are just trying to sell (and have sold) their poor idea to venture capitalists to make a buck
seumas, are you not the same "seumas" that wrote this
"What do you expect? It's obviously designed to appeal to clueless young people who see the web and internet as nothing more than an updated version of the old $2.99/minute local party line. It's the browser for those who like cliques and get off browsing through countless meaningless photos of people you've never met in person while sharing bookmarks with random people and reading about some random person's love-live - in all their failing grammatical glory and self infatuation."
i liked it when i first read it 2 months ago, and i like it now - akilleen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What the flock?
- sjvilla79, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Gee, that's too bad about the Flock project going under then. Ha! No digg.
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2005/12/29/wanted-to-destroy-something-beautiful/ - thisnameisfake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't know if Flock will fail but, it will surely end up in obscurity. The trend of the interweb is to be modular. Monolithic systems are bloated and insecure at best.
- theangryangel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Good Magazine"? No comment.
- BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What the flock is Flock? A flocking Web 2.0 browser? Flock that! I don't need no flocking Web 2.0 flocking browser! Fire flocking Fox is good enough for me!
- ForbesBingley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've been using Flock on and off [mainly off] since it's first public release.
It's a nice idea, but it's an unusable shambles at the minute.
Much in need of some drastic improvements.
But that's being unfair, since Flock is a very, very early release... - Korniko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's hard for me to see this as anything more than Firefox with a few Web 2.0 extensions, but I'm not going to knock it as a bad idea until I see the beta.
- deadkenny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Flock is pointless. Just a bundled Firefox with selected extensions.
Attractive to reviewers though who don't consider this. BBC have raved about it as some revolutionary *new* browser, but it's nothing of the sort. - TC-14, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Funnily enough, this is the first time I've heard about Flock.
In my opinion, I couldn't care less about it, since it seems only to be useful for the blogging community, something that I'm not too fond of
I can imagine alot of teens such as MySpace users using something like this, the whole blogging, photo sharing and bookmarking thing just don't cut it for me. All I need a browser for is for its original purpose and that is to browse the Internet. - Mysk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Flock is actually quite handy if you have a blog and a flickr account, and I have both. Obviously you're not going to see use in either of those features if you don't have either of those services (or don't make regular use of them if you do have them).
The way that it combines everything is very user friendly.
That said, the Performancing blogging extension for Firefox is quite nice in and of itself. Not as featured, perhaps, but I'd be a bit concerned if I were (in) the Flock team. :p - Spencerocks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0one of flock's early bugs was to delete you del.icio.us bookmarks from the database, be careful using it and don't whinge that I didn't warn you, I'm waiting for a beta.. the mac version rendered dodgy.
it performed nicely on mac though, dare say better than the fox's latest beta - nonokiaboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Flock is good. But if you are hooked on FFox, you'll end up coming back to it every time.
- Estazor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In my opinion what Flock is trying to do seems to be ahead of it's time. Give it a few years and I'll guarrantee either a new browser or one that's already popular will have the same features built into it and it'll be praised as "new and exciting."
- Enkhei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hell, i use flock everyday, a little uncomfortable but in my opinion it seems more stable than firefox but that may be just my comp that runs it better. it hasnt crashed however the blog option doesnt have an easy way t use.
- zelig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Whatever. All browsers are good for something. I use 'em all.
- superbird, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's a good idea but the Flock team are aiming it at the wrong market (early adopters) who just aren't going to be interested because they can configure FF with extensions that do everything that Flock does. Flock needs to market itself at blogging/web 2.0 noobs when it gets a decent product out.
- figmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For people who blog semi-professionally, and there are an increasing number, the promise of Flock is genuinely exciting. The fact is that creating unique blog content is hard (not all of us just mirror and repeat what we read other places). It involves gathering images and text from multiple places on the web, accumulating a series of links, sometimes composing and assembling in Word if just to check spelling and grammar or depending on how involved the formatting is, taking it into another editor like bbedit.
Flock will radically streamline work flow and as blogs continue to increase in popularity and as consolidation continues and blog networks arise, there will continue to be an increasing need for a tool like this. - ephekt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0We need less Web 2.0 faggotry on the net, I hate Flock.
- Estazor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ephekt, I don't understand how you can hate a program.
- factoryjoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Superbird and figmo have pretty decent views of Flock. Yeah, we're a bit ahead of the curve, but then, if we were behind it, we'd be doing just another AJAX webapp, and aren't there plenty of those?
And yeah, it's fine to keep harping on the extension story, but what that view fails to consider is that the core offering of a browser needs to change to adapt to current trends going on online.
Consider this: should syndicated content (i.e. Pretty RSS) continue to be an afterthought in the browser? We don't think so, so we're building it directly in -- complete with aggregation services that extension developers can use. I mean, if you're developing RSS or web service extensions, do you really want to have rewrite basic code everytime, or would you rather spend time making really cool things that build off a solid foundation that Firefox alone doesn't give you?
Sure sure, Flock has a long way to go before it really will feel like a different browser, but that's the point of releasing early -- and hopefully soon, more often. Anyway, yeah, it's not much yet, but if you dismiss everything that comes out early offhand, then Firefox would never have caught on either. - Junx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like how someone mentioned Flock dying and arising again like a Phoenix considering Firefox's original name was Phoenix (although based on the city in Arizona, the 1.0 destination in their original roadmap, taken a bit literally of course). :P
- amigiac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Flock is pointless. Just a bundled Firefox with selected extensions."
Yep, it's for the people too dumb to install them all by themselves, you know, IE users... - lobbster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i tired flock, but it was dumb. i went back to the Fox
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