Flock
see also: Etymology of Flock
Flock is a Navigateur Web founded on technology Mozilla, developed mainly starting from the sources of Mozilla Firefox. Flock also indicates the name of the company which develops it.
The creators of Flock define it as a social navigator : that means that it is able to interact with popular online services such as Flickr and Photobucket for the division of photograph, Del.icio.us and Ma.gnolia.com for the division of mark-pages, the Blog S and the Agrégateur S of news (services that certain Net surfers or developers, following the example Flock company, attach to the idea of a Web known as " 2.0").
Functionalities
The version of development 0.9.2 has the following functions:- the mark-pages are published on a site which makes it possible to divide them. When one marks a page (i.e. one adds a mark-page, favorite or bookmark ), the address of the page can be added on your account Del.icio.us or Ma.gnolia.com instead of being recorded out-line.
- the favorites and the history are integrated into the manager of favorites.
- Search for text integrated by using Clucene, research during striking for the pages out of mask.
- Integration with the services of division of media Flickr, Photobucket and Youtube.
- Marking Technorati.
- Tools of Blog.
- Agrégateur of news.
- Possibilities Slip-of depositing and a function equivalent to a Clipboard (called Web Clipboard ).
- Handwriting verification in the editor of blog and the forms of the Web pages.
The company
Flock is the successor of Round Two which obtained funds of Bessemer Venture Partners, Shasta, Catamount Ventures, as well as other investors. Bart Decrem and Geoffrey Arone is the founders of Flock, and Shawn Hardin is CEO (chairman) current.
References
- Flock, the New Browser one the Block Business Week , October 5th 2005.
- Buzz Flocks to New Browser Wired News , September 14th 2005.
See too
Internal bonds
- List of navigators Web
- Foundation Mozilla
External bonds
- Flock
- Extensions officially supported by Flock
- Extensions for Flock
- Wiki of the community Flock
- Interview of Erwan Loisant, engineer at Flock video Interview (6/6/2007)
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