Comments on: Flock Lands To Cheers & Jeers

By: Ooooh… naughty Flock! Naughty, naughty! | the MARTINI SHAKER

Ooooh… naughty Flock! Naughty, naughty! | the MARTINI SHAKER — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:58:56 +0000

[...] not overly impressed (Om Malik talks more about the browser’s lukewarm reception in his post Flock Lands To Cheers & Jeers). As an alternative to Mozilla Firefox, it’s alright. I like the de.licio.us integration, the [...]

By: Reverberations » Blog Archive » Birds of a Flock

Reverberations » Blog Archive » Birds of a Flock — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:07:35 +0000

[...] Flock came, and was more jeered than cheered. [...]

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:12:50 +0000

I’m not hard-core on switching anytime soon, however, I’ve been looking for a way to get a browser to integrate my del.icio.us bookmarks for a while. That’s probably the coolest feature – in my opinion – included in this piece of software.

-Josh

By: Wholesome Goodness

Wholesome Goodness — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 07:45:36 +0000

Flock Developer Preview

I’ve spent a decent chunk of this weekend playing with Flock, the new social browser that’s out in developer preview

By: Business Logs

Business Logs — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:15:11 +0000

Flock Soars Like An Ostrich

With the private beta scrapped because of P2P leaks of the Flock installer, the bird team decided to step-up and drop a public beta into everybody’s laps. Their Flock homepage is full of disclaimers, but that didn’t stop some people…

By: TECHNOSIGHT » Flock - Another Browser for the Tech Community

TECHNOSIGHT » Flock - Another Browser for the Tech Community — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:34:16 +0000

[...] Flock is a revolutionary approach to consuming the web. It integrates tagging, blogging, and feed aggregation all within the browser itself – no plugins, extensions, or add-ons needed. Built on top of the Mozilla platform (read: Firefox), Flock aimed at making life simpler (which is what Steve Rubel looked for) but missed the mark. Om and others agree – at least for now. [...]

By: MIT Dude

MIT Dude — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:33:03 +0000

If Flock is the poster child for Web 2.0 then I have got to be honest, I am disappointed! It seems a lot of window dressing on top of a normal browser (FF).

FWIW, I think Flock is more like Web 1.1a SP1 than Web 2.0.

By: Mike Rundle

Mike Rundle — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:52:32 +0000

I’m not sure if I noticed the speed boost on my Mac — I basically compare browsers to Safari as far as speed goes, and FF nor Flock come close, so I’ll keep my default browser. Obviously Cocoa apps will be always be significantly faster then others, so I don’t know how the Flockers will ever compete with the launch and load times of Safari.

I realize this is an early prototype (right?) but the interface isn’t nearly as polished as I was hoping. The bookmarks/favorites sidebar looks like they forgot to design it, and the Shelf could do with some touch-ups as well. The Flickr integration at the top just looked bulky IMO too.

I’m sure they’ll be fixing my little niggles so I’m not worried. Big congrats to them for getting the app out so soon, even though it was mainly because the P2P networks already released it :)

By: katzenbach.info » A new nifty browser is out: Flock

katzenbach.info » A new nifty browser is out: Flock — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:42:12 +0000

[...] Om Malik is unsure [...]

By: shishira

shishira — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:41:47 +0000

i Have tried setting up my blog to post through w.blogger and other such similar tools. the idea is basically to use the Xml-rpc frame work. The browser stops being just a medium to view the web only

By: john

john — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:59:42 +0000

I have found it to be a little faster, again i like the interface and some of the features (if fully realised) could be really interesting. I think the hype surrounding the project, whilst helpful for raising capital no doubt, works against the project in that it raises expections too high. Given time it feels like flock could develop into something genuinely fascinating.

By: sriram

sriram — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:51:04 +0000

Has anyone tried blogger.com. Very slow to load.

By: Krish

Krish — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 08:40:15 +0000

I think it is not Yahoo! that is the search engine of choice. The default search engine is still Google…but the first buton in the search tool box is Yahoo!..if u type anything in the address bar, it uses Google to search and redirects to the first result of the search(just as Firefox does).. I am afraid how can Yahoo! be the search engine of choice, when the default search engine is Google!

I too didnt notice any appreciable increase in speed. But what really is cute, is the del.ici.ous thingie that they have integrated! and the feed based model that they have put in..these two rock!

By: Jackson West

Jackson West — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 08:32:20 +0000

I know a couple of people on the development and design side, and first off I want to make sure that they don’t take this personally. These are just some impressions…

I don’t notice a speed increase, but then I don’t notice a decrease, either. Firefox occassionally gives me the pinwheel of death and I have to shut it down, but only every few days. I’m giving Flock some time before it pisses me off.

What I love about it is the fat-client/thin-client convergence thing. I set up my del.icio.us account, and now anything I add to that from another browser is instantly in my Flock faves, and anything I favorite in Flock is instantly added to my del.icio.us faves. It really breaks down the local/remote barrier that way.

I’ve seen the drag and drop blogging demoed, but haven’t played with it yet. At the time, I thought it looked pretty awesome. But considering that each blog (especially on MT and WP) has it’s own classes and styles for image placement and text layout (read: custom, generally hand-coded HTML and CSS) I wonder how they will handle that.

Definitely using it and keeping an eye out. I’m sure they could use a bug report or ten!

By: kaveh

kaveh — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 07:52:35 +0000

Brandon writes:
“so i think this really stops at the web 2.0 early adopter crowd.”

As do many other technologies coming to market these days w. a Web 2.0 as part of their elevator pitch.

Well put.

I spent a bit more time using it. I created a WordPress blog account and configured the blogging tool to post to it. Worked OK … some of the formatting didn’t make it through, but I liked the implementation … or the idea of it, I suppose.

Everyone is impressed with the speed … I cannot say that I noticed the difference, especially since I am quite happy w. Firefox’s performance (and I make it do a lot with all the extensions and 4 startup/home pages!)

Again, so far, not enough to justify a switch.

By: SteveH

SteveH — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 06:57:10 +0000

I don’t think anyone in the Mozilla community likes Bart, so I wonder how he’s going to be able to pull this off. It seems like this will go the way of Eazel.