Flock Beta 1 released

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Flock Beta 1 released

by Jordan Running Jun 14th 2006

Forgot all about Flock, didn't you? (Yeah, me too.) Well, the Firefox-based "social web browser" is still alive and kicking, and with the release of Flock Beta 1, a.k.a. version 0.7, the Flock team has kicked it into public beta mode. Though when the first alpha was released Flock was pretty easy to dismiss as, well, alpha software, the new beta looks compelling, with speed and stability improvements, lots of new features for photo management, feed-reading, search, favorites, and blogging. Take a look at the Flock blog for lots of juicy details, or hit the download site to grab Flock for Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux.

Tags: browser, firefox, flock, mozilla, socialsoftware, web20

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Hard said 10:04AM on 6-15-2006

Is there a Mac version of this (I certainly hope so).
I went to the site and got only a Windows download link... but then again I'm on a PC.

Jordan Running said 10:13AM on 6-15-2006

Yes, there are Mac and Linux versions. Presumably the FLock site automatically detects your OS just like the Firefox site does, though it would be nice if there were an "Other download options" link.

bored said 12:53PM on 6-15-2006

The flickr/photobucket + blogging integration is nice, but whether you need a whole browser for all this is questionable...one big bug is that none of the services work through a proxy and it won't get fixed till the final release.

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