Comments on: Flock off to a bloody impressive start http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051021/2520/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:33:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Stress » Get the Flock out of here http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051021/2520/#comment-315552 Stress » Get the Flock out of here Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:43:49 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051021/2520/#comment-315552 [...] There’s a browser called Flock, and it’s one hell of a good idea. It makes review and comment on new articles easier than I’ve ever seen. It combines Firefox’s web browsing with an expanded RSS reader and a blogging tool. You have the ability to quickly write and publish a piece on whatever you’re reading. There’s also a “web snippets” feature, anchored in the bottom right corner, that allows for copy-pasting photos and text from the article(s) for quick use in the blog post. Flock is built using Firefox code, and it closely resembles that browser. It can handle more than one blog account, and I suppose could cross-post easily. Here’s a longer talk, with photos. Download it here. [...] […] There’s a browser called Flock, and it’s one hell of a good idea. It makes review and comment on new articles easier than I’ve ever seen. It combines Firefox’s web browsing with an expanded RSS reader and a blogging tool. You have the ability to quickly write and publish a piece on whatever you’re reading. There’s also a “web snippets” feature, anchored in the bottom right corner, that allows for copy-pasting photos and text from the article(s) for quick use in the blog post. Flock is built using Firefox code, and it closely resembles that browser. It can handle more than one blog account, and I suppose could cross-post easily. Here’s a longer talk, with photos. Download it here. […]

]]> By: Make You Go Hmm: » Singing a little Opera 9 beta 2 with widgets and Flock beta 1 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051021/2520/#comment-173507 Make You Go Hmm: » Singing a little Opera 9 beta 2 with widgets and Flock beta 1 Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:14:18 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051021/2520/#comment-173507 [...] and yes Flock has extensions too. save/share/explore: MyWeb | del.icio.us | digg it! | Sphereit [...] […] and yes Flock has extensions too. save/share/explore: MyWeb | del.icio.us | digg it! | Sphereit […]

]]> By: Gavin Newman http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051021/2520/#comment-70352 Gavin Newman Sun, 23 Apr 2006 16:46:46 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051021/2520/#comment-70352 As a Linux user I have always had more browsers available to use than I can shake a stick at. My number one browser of choice is Flock, and this is why. It embraces the ideas that is now being called Web2.0. Whether you believe the hype or not does not matter, the way we use the Internet is changing, and with something as dynamic as the Internet, it is changing fast. Flock lets you write to the Web as easy as it is to read from the Web. It allows you to easily share your bookmarks and photos and tag your information. No wonder it is referred to as the 'social browser'. What interests me most about Flock is that it exists as a business model. It is open source, built on the Mozilla code-base (as is Firefox) and it is free. It has many people working full-time on it's development and is being funded by venture capital. Now, venture capitalists don't give their money away, they look for a return on it and take the financial risk. This means Flock needs to generate money, and lots of it. The only way they can do this is by running Google ads and getting affiliate fees for referring users to commercial sites like Amazon and the like. One way of doing this could be by using the search field built into the browser tool-bar the same way as Firefox. The other is by using a 'Start Page'. For example Firefox's start page is google.co.uk/firefox/ and Flock's start page is http://flock.com/start/. But these start pages can be changed by the user, and I wonder how many people use the tool-bar search option. I also wonder what people actually want from a start page. Is it a simple search like the Firefox and Flock option or do they want more? And there is an alternative, such as flockstart.com As a Linux user I have always had more browsers available to use than I can shake a stick at. My number one browser of choice is Flock, and this is why. It embraces the ideas that is now being called Web2.0. Whether you believe the hype or not does not matter, the way we use the Internet is changing, and with something as dynamic as the Internet, it is changing fast. Flock lets you write to the Web as easy as it is to read from the Web. It allows you to easily share your bookmarks and photos and tag your information. No wonder it is referred to as the ’social browser’.

What interests me most about Flock is that it exists as a business model. It is open source, built on the Mozilla code-base (as is Firefox) and it is free. It has many people working full-time on it’s development and is being funded by venture capital. Now, venture capitalists don’t give their money away, they look for a return on it and take the financial risk. This means Flock needs to generate money, and lots of it. The only way they can do this is by running Google ads and getting affiliate fees for referring users to commercial sites like Amazon and the like.

One way of doing this could be by using the search field built into the browser tool-bar the same way as Firefox. The other is by using a ‘Start Page’. For example Firefox’s start page is google.co.uk/firefox/ and Flock’s start page is http://flock.com/start/. But these start pages can be changed by the user, and I wonder how many people use the tool-bar search option. I also wonder what people actually want from a start page. Is it a simple search like the Firefox and Flock option or do they want more? And there is an alternative, such as flockstart.com

]]> By: TD's Opera Blog http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051021/2520/#comment-29708 TD's Opera Blog Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:54:44 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051021/2520/#comment-29708 <strong>Still using Opera ... every day</strong> When I first installed Opera I expected to use it for a few hours, maybe a day or two and then that would be it, but I must admit that here I am nearly a month later. What features and functions do I like? - sessions ... Still using Opera … every day

When I first installed Opera I expected to use it for a few hours, maybe a day or two and then that would be it, but I must admit that here I am nearly a month later. What features and functions do I like?

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