What the Flock?
I signed up for Flock’s newsletter, and last night received an invitation to download the developer preview version of their “social browser”. “What’s a social browser?” I hear you cry. Well, as far as I can tell, it’s a version of Mozilla that includes a blog-posting tool, Del.icio.us social bookmark integration, and Flickr photo integration.
It seems to work. The Del.icio.us bookmark browser is nice, and I’m writing this post from the blog tool. The appearance is funkier than Firefox, too.
I’m not really sure how they’re going to make money, though. Advertising? Paid-for downloads? It’s all good Web 2.0 stuff (APIs, read/write etc etc) but, if they’re pitching as something more than a fork of the open-source Mozilla project, then the future looks a little unclear.