The developers describe Flock as

[T]he world’s most innovative social browsing experience. We call it the two-way web.

Which is a good enough sales pitch to make me try the free demo, but it’s all still a private beta. Perhaps they’re trying to prove the point that nothing builds buzz better than unavailability. Osakasteve gushes:

A browser that is designed around social software like blogs and flickr

And Roland Tanglao overflowed:

I was blown away! Drag and drop blogging – drag text from a blog post and it automatically creates a cite tag with a link to the original post and the quoted text is indented using a blockquote tag. Drag and drop Flickr photos. And Chris teased me with some more future features like having del.icio.us as your bookmarks (goodbye to useless local bookmarks).

Extra: it’s based on Firefox and will fully love Mac, Win, and Linux. Interesting ideas…where’s my beta invite?

tags: blogging, blogs, drag and drop, firefox, flickr, flock, mac win linux, private beta, sales pitch, social bookmarking, social bookmarks, social browser, social browsing, social networking, social software, social web browser, web browser

Posted August 24, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: blogging, blogs, drag and drop, firefox, flickr, flock, mac win linux, private beta, sales pitch, social bookmarking, social bookmarks, social browser, social browsing, social networking, social software, social web browser, web browser.

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