since everyone else is blogging about
flock, the new web browser based on the
mozilla engine, i'm gonna jump on the bandwagon.
a few things:
- flock is a social web browser. it has integration with your blog, the social bookmark, del.icio.us, and photo sharing website flickr. this means that if you're an active blogger, like to share photos, and use del.icio.us religiously, flock is the browser for you. and oh - they use the term "favorites" instead of "bookmarks".
- flock support full text search of your history - which totally kicks ass. this is one feature that i like since i do a lot of research and save a lot of pages. one thing i hope that they will implement is web page notation. the idea is taking a web page, and render it into some sort of wysiwyg editor where i can add notes, highlights, etc etc.
- flock is build based on the firefox engine, rather than a collection of extensions. this is a bold move by the developers, which is good because then we can be sure of where flock's heading to, and what's it future capabilites are. this also technically means that performance and stability will not be an issue once flock matures.
i think that the developers are really making something wonderful here. however, flock seems to target web-2.0 savvy users, rather than say, your grandma or granddad or your 5 year old niece. this technically means that at some point in time in the future, products like flock will differentiate the web savvy and the not-so-web-savvy, rather than being an alternative browser. in the end web users will be treated like car owners - those owning skylines and acuras and evos will be looked upon with more awe than say, kancil or satria owners.
what i like to see is not a bigger gap between the haves and the haves not, but rather more alternatives choices to internet explorer, which firefox has successfully done.
also,
13 things you can do with flock is a must read.
listening to: dj tiesto - beautiful things (gabriel and dresden remix)
