My first taste of Flock Web Browser
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008I just tried this new web browser on the block called ‘Flock‘ - the social web browser. To me, it looks and smells too much like Mozilla Firefox with custom theme and collection of plugins that integrate popular services like GMail, Facebook, Youtube, Yahoo, Flickr, etc.
According to Wikipedia, Flock(web browser) has received about $30M funding. I was so dumbfounded-jaw-droped-shocked at first. I mean it is (at least from my brief observation) just taking Mozilla Firefox + theme + plugins. But then I realised, this is about collective advertising of the biggest websites on the planet, hence the amount of money reflects the brands, not the technology.
I think it is very clever how the people at Flock uses the best browser to build their platform on. I can definetely see other big companies follow suit and pay good amount of money to get their services featured and tightly integrated into Flock.
Would I use it? Yes, I think I would, or at least try it. I use many of the services already integrated into Flock web browser, so I think I’ll try it to see if it will make my online experience better.
