Social Icons

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Jom kita Flock!!!



Download Flock di: http://flock.com/

Flock is a web browser built on Mozilla’s Firefox codebase that specializes in providing social networking and Web 2.0 facilities built into its user interface. Flock v2 was released on October 14th 2008.

The Flock browser is available as a free download, and supports Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms.

Flock 2.0 integrates social networking and media services including MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc. Notably, when logging into any of the supported social services, Flock can track updates from friends: profiles, uploaded photos, and more.

Other features include:

* native sharing of text, links, photos and videos;
* a "Media Bar" showing preview of online videos and photos as well as subscription to photo and video feeds;
* a feed reader supporting Atom, RSS and Media RSS feeds;
* a blog editor and reader, allowing direct posting into any designated blog;
* a web-mail component allowing users to check supported web-based email off site, compose new messages, and drag-and-drop pictures and videos from the "Media Bar" or webclipboard into a new email message;
* support for third-party add-ons, including a number of Firefox extensions.It also supports themes since version 2.0.



In December 2007, Flock won the Mashable Open Web Awards for Applications and Widgets and in March 2008, Flock won the South By Southwest Web Award for Community.

Flock 1.0 was reviewed by CNet as "Best Mac Software of 2007." PC World's Harry McCracken reviewed Flock as his "New Favorite Web Browser."

In February 2008, AOL announced that it would discontinue support for the Netscape browser, and recommended Flock and Firefox as alternative browsers to its userbase of Netscape 9 users. For the Netscape 8 userbase, AOL recommended only the Flock browser to its users. In March 2008, Flock announced that they had seen "nearly 3 million downloads" and a 135% percent increase in active users in the first two months of 2008. They also announced "more than 70 percent of Flock users making it their default browser of choice."

In May 2008, Flock won the Social Networking category of the Webby Awards.Flock was nominated for this award along with Facebook, Bebo and Ning. On July 22, 2008 Linux distributor PC/OS announced that the Flock browser would replace Firefox as its primary browser on its workstation releases.

Awards

Upon exiting beta Flock has won a number of awards:

* Webby Award in social networking, 2008
* SXSW community Award, 2008
* Open Web Award for Applications and Widgets, 2007

Ratings

* Download.com top rated, 5 out of 5
* Ranked #6 on PC World's list of the 100 best products of 2008

Enjoy using Flock!

No comments:

Post a Comment