Flock (web browser)

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Flock
Flock 0.7.1 beta release
Maintainer:	Flock, Inc.
Stable release:	not yet released _[+/-]
Preview release:	0.7.12 (Cardinal) (March 21, 2007) _[+/-]
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	Web browser
License:	GPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
Website:	www.flock.com

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Flock is a web browser heavily based upon Mozilla Firefox and other Mozilla technologies, Flock is also the name of the company developing the browser. Flock's creators call it a "social browser", due to its ability to interact with popular social networking web services. Such web services include Flickr, Del.icio.us, Technorati, Photobucket, and various popular blogging and news aggregation services.

1 Features
2 The company
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Features

The current beta release has the following features:

Bookmarks, in addition to being saved offline, can be replaced with del.icio.us. When a bookmark (known as a favorite) is added, it is added to the user's del.icio.us account
Favorites can be tagged
A favorites and history section are integrated into the favorites manager
Built-in full-text search using Clucene. Search as you type for pages in the cache
Flickr and Photobucket integration
Technorati tagging
Blogging tools
News aggregation
"Drag-and-drop" capability and a clipboard like feature known as "The Shelf."
Built-in spellcheck capability

[edit] The company

Flock is the successor to Round Two who raised money from Bessemer Venture Partners, Catamount Ventures, Shasta Ventures, and other angel investors. Bart Decrem and Geoffrey Arone cofounded the company.