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I tried Browster and Cooliris and found them helpful. Unfortunately, Browster 2.0 wreaked havoc on my internet explorer, alot of my secure sites stopped working. Cooliris gave me no problems. Honestly, if I had to choose one over the other, I’d go with Cooliris. Cooliris keeps it simple thus works great. The nice feature is that you can enable/disable Cooliris on individual sets. I use Cooliris on both my Firefox and Internet Explorer. One of my friends uses Cooliris for Safari browser and says its awesome.

Back to philosophical debates . . . what constitute web 2.0 depends on how you define web 2.0., which was kind of a marketing term by itself, anyway.

I love web 2.0 innovations.They make life easier, make my productivity increase, and moreover they are free. But Browseter is definately not one of them.

In the subtext, my point was that Flock is being built from the standpoint of taking things like MySpace social networks for granted — as in, they’re really central to the whole “social” web experience… whereas Browster was built to accelerate your surfing habits by using an intermediary caching proxy and an inline preview — and so they’re grafting in this MySpace stuff after the fact, to suit the pop trends of today.

I mean, look at the preview release of Flock. The three default bookmarks are MySpace, YouTube and Flock. This is clearly the audience that you’re going after and that’s fine. At the same time, while Flock should be building in support for lots of other services, other apps, like PictureSync, are far out-pacing you in terms of service interop.

Once Flock does offer wider support for many social networks, I’ll believe you that you’re not strictly focused on MySpace and YouTube. In general, I’d look at what Google does and take note: they never talk about stuff they’ve not yet shipped — I’m all about seeing Flock support *tons* of web services, as was the original intention. I just haven’t seen any new services added since the initial beta.

Cheers,

Will Pate
Community Ambassador, Flock

@PJ — sites *can* dictate what browsers people use. Consider the Firefox campaign to get sites to switch… it wasn’t always (and still isn’t) a Firefox-friendly world.

And to this: “I’m not a big fan of Myspace, but I still think a custom browser for Myspace is a good idea.”

What do you think Flock is all about?

Frankly I just want to be able to turn it off easily or to choose sites I do not want it to work on. I have a number of web-based corporate applications that I do not want to pull through browser.

Between the ever-more-viral Web 2.0 Video and the release of Browster 2.0 today there is a lot of Browster buzz today. So I thought I’d do a little linky-love-fest. First of all, David Catalano from BorderLeap is just crazy enough…

Whatever measure Myspace takes, a countermeasure would be pretty simple, especially w/ automatic updates. The user wouldn’t need to care–all that fun stuff would happen in the background. Myspace can block javascript, cgi links, or whatever, but they can’t tell the user what browser to use.

Meanwhile, from what I can tell there’s already people spending money for Myspace automation tools. Automatic friend adding, commenting, etc. Let’s say I have 20 friends and I finish a new drawing that I want to show off. Do I want to surf 20 pages and submit 20 forms? Not really. Every kid on the planet that dreams of being a rockstar, DJ, whatever, they are in coffee shops all over the world right now plotting world domination. They’ll use whatever tools they can get their hands on.

I’m not a big fan of Myspace, but I still think a custom browser for Myspace is a good idea.