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October 20, 2005

Flock has Launched

Michael Arrington

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I just heard from Geoffrey Arone at Flock that they will be launching it to the general public within 3 hours (by 5 pm PST).

Feedback to their recent beta expansion has been so positive, Geoffrey tells me, that there is no reason to delay any longer.

Congratulations Flock! I imagine tens of thousands of people will be downloading and using their product by end of day. Make sure you upload your del.icio.us bookmarks and try out the blogging tool.

UPDATE: Flock is now live:

Flock Developer Preview is now available.

Our code couldn’t wait any longer to be free!

But! This preview ain’t for the faint of heart! If you’re the bleeding-edge type and don’t mind a few scrapes and busted knees from time to time, feel free to give it a whirl.

We’ve got interesting ideas in this thing. We want to know what we’ve done right how we could improve. And we’ve got a lot of work ahead of us!

So if a bucket of source code and developer binaries sound enticing, head over to our Developer page now.

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  1. Stef Levolger

    October 20th, 2005 at 2:37 pm

    Flock has been released! ^^. Posting with Flock right now. It looks pretty neat at first, will take some time to check out the exact features right now.

  2. Danny Dawson

    October 20th, 2005 at 3:38 pm

    I just got my copy and I’ve been nosing around. There’s a lot of fun to be had, but it certainly is just a “Preview” - it’s just too buggy and not well-documented enough to become my primary browser just yet.


  3. October 20th, 2005 at 6:56 pm

    Make sure you upload your del.icio.us bookmarks and try out the blogging tool.

    And make sure that Flock gets top three at del.icio.us within a few hours :)

  4. Heiko

    October 21st, 2005 at 12:14 am

    I got it too, and its fantastic ;o)

  5. Will

    October 21st, 2005 at 1:50 am

    I wish flock well.

    It needs to make itself compatible with all (most popular) FF extensions to be any good. (I know they have said they will try and od this.

    And where are Live Bookmarks? Perhaps I just can’t find them.

    They have several neat ideas but I can’t help feeling like they have three (or probably more) VERY good firefox extensions -(Blogging, Bookmarking stuff, Flickr) versus warranting a whole new browser and thus a split development path with FF.

    I think for them to be successful they need to build a browser as good as firefox (a long way to go in their current addmittedly early version) plus add their innovative functionality.

    I’d still be happier using FF with a great blogging extension.

    Good luck guys,

  6. Robyn

    October 21st, 2005 at 3:38 am

    Flock has really excited me too.

    http://www.gamingandtech.com/2.....flock.html

  7. Alasdair Allan

    October 21st, 2005 at 5:35 am

    I think the developer preview looks pretty slick, if a bit on the broken side. I’m hoping the web service problems I’m getting are teething trouble, as this is so obviously the way forward…

  8. Jeff Rogers

    October 21st, 2005 at 10:56 am

    While the lovefest for Flock is going on, let’s hope someone do not spoil the 15-second of fame party by showing how Microsoft (SmartBar?) and Apple (Widgets) are beginning to package downloadable contained mini-browsers to not only destroy the web browser market but web sites that depend on them.

    Why did you think Yahoo bought that widget company so fast?

  9. shivku

    October 23rd, 2005 at 7:28 am

    I am a die hard fan of flock
    Considering all the warnings they had given, I think their pre-alpha is fine. I dunno if web2.0 is just hyped up or not, But flock is too sexy. Particularly liked their aggregated feeds.

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