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Killer Buzz Flocks to New "Social" Browser

September 14, 2005 /

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Perhaps the world does not need another web browser — but it may want Bart Decrem’s.

Decrem and a small cadre of programmers in Palo Alto, California, have spent this summer quietly readying Flock http://www.flock.com/home/about/ , an open-source browser, for an early October beta launch. Several members of the team, including Decrem, hail from the Mozilla Foundation, which produced the Firefox browser upon which Flock is built.

Flock advertises itself as a "social browser," meaning that the application plays nicely with popular web services like Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ , Technorati http://www.technorati.com/ and del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/ . Flock also features widely compliant WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop blogging tools. The browser even promises to detect and authenticate all those user accounts automatically. It’s a clear attempt to be the browser of choice for the Web 2.0 user.

By Jeff MacIntyre

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