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In this last of our three part series, we want to share the results of our research. Our goal was to find the few best photosharing sites that are worth the time, and eliminate those that are less advantageous. Our four winners were: Flickr, Picturetr…

Time out now, Michael. On your OWN podcast, with YOU as the interviewer the Flock team told you that $2-3 was the number. While that’s not verified, saying it’s “a largely circulated rumor” paints it in a different light than it really should be.

Kevin

I also disagree that the MySpace crowd can be classified as “Web 2.0.” The average MySpace user sticks to the mainstream unless wowed by a flashy feature like Rock You.

虽然 Flickr 已经俨然成了目前图像分享的最佳选择之一了，但是不可否认在国外 Photobucket 也是一个相当普及的相册服务，用户群决不在少数。而 Flock 在本月发布了一个新的Beta版本之后，又发…

can you tell us a bit about the biz arrangement behind this?

Symbiosis, referral revenue, investors in common?

Flocks’ branding of openness will very quickly clear up any confusion about limitation. I am a fan. Smart, useful idea. We ran focus groups around our app, and quickly found out that vast majority of urban teens use Photobucket and don’t even know what Flickr is…for them Photobucket is a synonym for online photos not a limited brand.

Flickr functionality is still in the Photobucket edition browser, but not exposed by default. It doesn’t make sense to confuse Photobucket users when they try out Flock; but we’re not turning off Flickr support in the Photobucket edition either.

Flock has an open API for photo services, because we can’t develop support for every service ourselves. Extension developers will find themselves welcome.

Cheers,

Will Pate
Community Ambassador, Flock

Here’s why. I had the flock browser already and have been using it since right before the beta released. I upgraded to the photobucket edition and love everything about how it works with that account, but since I couldn’t believe that flock would do something like disable flickr or anything like that, I had to test it out. Just like when you initially set up your accounts on flock to connect to, you can go back and add flickr to your accounts. That’s right, not switch to, not turn on, but add.. In other words, now, I can switch between both photo galleries/services on the fly!

If you ask me, they have 100% done the job right! If you don’t believe me, try it yourself! Come on guys, this is the new browser on the block, at least give it a better test first!

I believe MySpace users ARE the web 2.0 set. However, I agree that it would be difficult to get them to switch browsers. However, if there’s any service that can start a trend, it’s MySpace, and other companies have succeeded by aiming their tools at that crowd

1. If it’s aimed at the Myspace crowd, they’re missing a trick. These are people who largely still use Internet Explorer, because it’s there - why on earth would they suddenly start using Flock as a browser? Most of Flock’s features are aimed at the web 2.0 set.

2. It’s a paid development to strip functionality out. If that’s the case, why call it Flock? Why not the Photobucket Browser or something? Removing capabilities will reflect badly on the Flock brand as a whole, given (as someone pointed out above) its supposed web 2.0, democratic read-write-web leanings. Actually, in that respect, I think Flock is generally lacking; we need, as a community, to be promoting more generic open standards.