Comments on: Flock More Than Doubles Its Funding

By: Convo about Flock’s $28m & Seesmic’s funding | THE DREAM IN ACTION

Tue, 19 May 2009 19:39:26 +0000

[...] This conversation started with a video comment from Loic on Techcrunch. [...]

By: Flock Moves 2.0 Browser Release Into Full Public Release | Semantic Web Reviews

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:20:22 +0000

[...] he noted that the current Flock monetization is double the plan numbers. He also pointed to their Series D raise from 2 months ago of $15 [...]

By: John Smith

John Smith — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:54:09 +0000

thanks
I thenk that too

By: Internet Share information » Blog Archive » The battle for the future of the social web

Mon, 26 May 2008 05:53:25 +0000

[...] distribution by selling certain default real estate in your browser (how do you think Flock keeps managing to raise more money?). This is one reason why the Netscape vs. Internet Explorer war mattered so much — and why the [...]

By: Random Sampler: Microsoft vs. Google, SugarCRM, Flock gets funded (?!?), Ubuntu, and more | money news blog

Mon, 26 May 2008 02:13:51 +0000

[...] raised another $15 million in a Series D round. Why is anyone still funding this paltry Firefox feature? Flock claims that it gets paid for search [...]

By: catnip

catnip — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:28:36 +0000

Flock is the best browser out there, ESPECIALLY for the average user. It never never crashes stupid Vista like both IE and Firefox did. I’m on it all day, every day. Can’t wait to see the upgrades.

By: ritual

ritual — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:57:53 +0000

I can’t see the average social website user switching to Flock since they haven’t even switched from IE to Firefox yet. Good luck trying to gain marketshare with a new browser.

By: james

james — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:38:41 +0000

no insane. Flock is a very good social WB. I use it as FFox: one for surfing global, and one for all my social networks, flickr, Facebook, Dailymotion, netvibes, google doc, etc.

By: Evan Hamilton

Evan Hamilton — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:36:27 +0000

Hey folks,

Thanks for your interest in Flock! A couple of answers below…

Re: Business model: We make money the same way most browsers do, through our search widget. We have a deal with Yahoo! just like Mozilla has a deal with Google. We also have several other streams that are currently contributing to revenue.

@Mike Hardgreaves: Sorry to hear that you didn’t like Flock when you tried it. I encourage you to give it another try (we’ve done a lot in the last few months and years) and if you still don’t like it, please drop me a line. We’re always working to make Flock better, and your feedback truly helps!

@Daniel: As a few folks have mentioned, we got $15 Million in funding in this round, not $48 million. That was a CrunchBase error which seems to be fixed now.

@duncans doughnuts: Sorry to hear about the crashes; this is NOT normal behavior. Flock is generally as stable as Firefox 2.x. Feel free to email me at the address below and we’ll work to hunt down your issue.

@MyMesh.com: Yes, it’s another browser download, but it can be your last browser download. One of the best things about Flock is that our powerful social features are built on top of the Gecko platform that powers Firefox, so you’ll always have the functionality, security, and power of Firefox. We’ll be releasing a version of Flock based on the Firefox3 codebase later this year, and all security updates are integrated into Flock in a very short time period.

@Andrew Wise: As I mentioned above, we have a version based on Firefox3 coming out later this year, which includes all the wonderful stability and performance of Gecko 1.9.

@Peter Flitsch: What’s great about Flock is how our features all interact with each other, instead of being stuck in a single sidebar. You can send articles directly from our Feed Reader to our Blog Editor, send Flickr photos directly from a page to a Gmail message, or drag’n'drop a YouTube video from the MediaBar to a Facebook friend in the People sidebar. Everything works together to create a single, solid experience rather than an experience entirely stuck within an extension. Additionally, since we’re built off of Firefox we are not expending cycles trying to build or enhance the core rendering/browsing; we’re building fantastic tools that hook into this to provide a complete social browsing experience.

Thanks for all the great comments, folks!

Evan Hamilton
Flock Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:05:46 +0000

@Loic: your comment comforted me in my opinion that Seesmic is not suited for blog comments (and is it really for conversations ?).

I spent 1:35 to watch you say: “how much is left to the founders”, which I could have read in 10s. I am glad that all comments are not Seesmic or it would require 30 minutes to “read” this page…

By: Peter Flitsch

Peter Flitsch — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:42:40 +0000

I tried Flock, but franckly I do not see the point in installing one more browser to get (not even all the) functionnalities that an add-on such as the beta release of yoono is providing for Firefox…

Moreover, not all Firefox add-ons work with Flock, why would I give up all of these ?

$28M for one more browser ? come on !

By: Andrew Wise

Andrew Wise — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:12:39 +0000

So right now for a 10x, they have to sell Flock for about $300 million? Unless of course you can see them monetizing your tabs; I’ve personally found Flock to be really processor-intensive and with all of the crazy extensions going on, it just seemed to bog down my computer.

If they were able to stabilize these newest versions on par with Firefox 3, I’d definitely be interested in giving it a try again, but until then, my 2GB of ram can’t even take it.

By: Andrew Wise's Startup Blog | Andrew Wise on Tech, Music, and Gadgets

Andrew Wise's Startup Blog | Andrew Wise on Tech, Music, and Gadgets — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:10:18 +0000

[...] starting to see the makings of some real browser wars heating up again. Flock has just raised $15 million in a Series D (yes D, as in DOG) round bringing their total to $28 [...]

By: Browsers Reviews

Browsers Reviews — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:26:03 +0000

Flock is a good looking browser. I bet they do earn like any other web browser, sponsored search, etc

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:36:20 +0000

I switched from Firefox to Flock last year and within a day swore never to go back to Firefox. Its much more than just a skin and browser add ons. It actually runs faster, has fewer memory leaks and is great if you regularly upload photos, blog or check facebook.

Also – its media browser for photos and videos (looks like iTunes album browser) is an amazing lesser known feature.

By: Ghaus

Ghaus — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:32:04 +0000

I think flock main exit model is to sell itself to Google or Microsoft, or maybe Yahoo.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Flockが新たな資金調達で調達総額を2倍以上にした

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Flockが新たな資金調達で調達総額を2倍以上にした — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:25:51 +0000

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By: Garrett Milliron

Garrett Milliron — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:31:45 +0000

Ivory: Glad you like the People sidebar. You can change the default search engine by clicking “search preferences” at the bottom of the search toolbar flyout menu. Cheers

By: Ivory

Ivory — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:09:43 +0000

I use flock as my primary web browser. I like it’s social networking side bar but I don’t so much like that the default browser is yahoo instead of google.

By: jas

jas — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:57:09 +0000

@7 i reckon less than 200k users

By: Erwan

Erwan — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:51:27 +0000

The mistake about the total funding has been corrected! But there is an other one: our office is no longer in Mountain View, but in Redwood City.

By: jdragon

jdragon — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:43:27 +0000

Exactly how much money have these guys made?

By: duncans doughnuts

duncans doughnuts — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:26:08 +0000

i dig flock but the browser on my mac crashes alll the time – especially when any type of flash video tries to start up. force quitting has become a habit and then i resort to using safari. flock me it’s frustrating.

By: Geoffrey Arone

Geoffrey Arone — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:58:13 +0000

@Loic, thanks for looking out for us founders! A couple of things. First, as the article notes, the round was $15 Million, not $43 or $28. Second, WRT founders, dilution sucks, but not as much as going for a long drive on short pier! I am actually no longer with Flock, but am very happy to know that despite the dilution, the current team will have enough runway to execute in an uncertain funding environment. Plus, the product keeps getting better and the model refined so I am holding out for a smaller piece of what I believe can be a much bigger pie (if the team continues to execute as well as they have).

By: MyMesh.com

MyMesh.com — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:57:54 +0000

Nice.., but, one more browser to install?..