I met with Geoffrey Arone and Chris Messina at Flock headquarters in Palo Alto yesterday to see the new Flock browser. Flock is expanding the beta group from a hundred or so individuals to a couple of thousand today.
We begged a beta invitation to Flock a while back and wrote about it in a profile written on August 26, 2005
There have been significant improvements since then. The blogging tool is even slicker than it was before, with incredibly easy flickr integration, blog editing (dual pane with code/wysiwyg viewers) and other features.
Bookmarks are now integrated with del.icio.us, which just makes so much more sense than their original idea of creating a separate social bookmarking product.
Flock is looking like a very powerful and very beautiful product.
Flock Offices
The Flock offices are literally in a garage off of University Ave in Palo Alto. Most people were awake and coding when we stopped by in the early afternoon. Andy Smith, pictured left, was the lone exception. Garage, sleeping engineers, cases of Red Bull…a true startup is a wonderful thing.
Business Week Essay
Make sure you read Rob Hof’s Flock essay on Business Week. It’s…very complete. 
wow flock is sounding amazing.. i think at this rate it could replace firefox as a default browser.. especially if they mangage to make it easy to convert ff extensions for flock
So… now that I have managed to get signed up in the beta program… can someone send me a download invite?
Oops, I think we got some wires crossed during your visit — there is so much going on @ Flock World HQ. The beta will not be expanding today. We demo’d it at the Web 2.0 conference.
There is a number of steps that we need to do before we expand the beta:
1. Clean up a few issues over the next few days.
2. Get the current version to our core user experience experts and domain experts (such as yourselves).
3. Go live with our community infrastructure
4. Get the most recent version of the Flock browser to our existing beta users — which have already provided so much valuable feedback!
Then, as rapidly as humanly possible, expand the beta until the browser is publicly available and the source code is available to everyone.
It was fantastic to met you!
Work hard but this will not make IE users to switch off!