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Hello Everyone,
As a new addition to the team here at Flock, I’d like to take a moment to share some of my first impressions with you. This is likely my last chance to offer the candid perspective of the ‘new guy’. First of all, it’s great to be here. Let me briefly explain why.
Flock is preparing for a very important milestone in our company’s history. We are on the cusp of completing Flock 1.0, which integrates your friends from your favorite social services into the browser, paving the way for easy communication and sharing with people you care about, no matter where you are on the Web. This is by no means a modest ambition.
Nobody at Flock joined to take on modest ambitions. In this next version we’ve built a browser that integrates 15 popular services from around the Web, and succeeded in allowing them to work well with each other, which we believe to be a tremendous accomplishment. We’re quite proud of what we’ve done and look forward to hearing your impressions after you have the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the product. We’re hopeful that you too will become ‘dyed in the wool’ converts who can’t imagine browsing any other way.
In my brief tenure here at Flock, I’ve quickly arrived at a sense of great appreciation for the many elements that need to be in place in order to deliver a noteworthy and important product innovation. In most cases, there needs to be an ever-changing combination of vision, talent, focus, and flexibility (and these elements don’t naturally co-exist well together). I’ve been impressed by the incredible concentration of talent here at Flock, and how these elements have all been balanced to complete such an ambitious product vision.
Along with our excitement around the release of Flock 1.0, we’re collectively challenged and inspired by our ambitious roadmap ahead. No rest for the weary here. We’re just now scratching the surface of what we believe the Flock browser is capable of delivering.
Longfellow said, “most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”
I think we would have liked that guy, and he clearly would be an avid Flock user.
We are now in the midst of our private beta and will be sharing a public release candidate for Flock in the coming weeks. Flock 1.0 is on it’s final approach, and it’s well worth the wait.
-Dan
Blogged with Flock
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Hm... I am going to try Flock 1.0 Beta, good luck with development by the way.
I'm actually a big fan of Longfellow. This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the Hemlocks... And then the sustained rhythms of Hiawatha? Gorgeous. Uh, but I guess that's tangential.
In the paraphrased words of Hair Club for Men president Cy Sperling, I'm not only a Flock staffer, I'm also a dedicated user. :)
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Flock Web Guy
I have just downloaded your 1.o beta...
And I am aching in my arms, becaouse I just cant get them down. The flock browser simply just works - and rocks! the photo uploader to facebook is a stroke of genius and the People feature is amazing. I sincerely hope that you gave The Coop from Mozilla a final blow, and that your browser will prevail...
When your browser comes out in a fnial 1.0 version, I will dedicate my homepage to you, whcih hopefully will give you about 80-100 visitors from Denmark and Iceland...
Amazing work guys - keep it up!
I tried it today and find interesting but while posting my new blog some features like justified was missing so i get back to blogger.com and post it from there only otherwise its good..
even I have posted article on flock because i felt that its really interesting so more people should about it.
i'm running the 1.0 beta and it seems pretty stable . love the new features .so keep up the "social" development and i'm looking forward to the final release
thx pete
I've been interested in Flock for a while now (I'm using it now on a whim), and I've been waiting for 1.0 before plunging fully in from Firefox. I'm gonna test 1.0 in a minute, because judging by previous comments, it seems stable.
If it can match Firefox, then overcome the program hanging and deleting my bookmarks randomly, I'm switching right now.
I need more customisability, though. Some of the menus are a bit thick, and the theme is too flashy for me. Get a version with themes, I'm there. Even if I have to build one.
God knows if I should put this here. =P
Hey Anonymus,
We intend to publish a guide to theming Flock in the coming weeks, which the theming community can use to create their own unique visions of how Flock should look. And, as always, we will continue to refer to community feedback when tweaking our default theme to be more and more effective and pretty.
Flock on!
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
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blog.evanhamilton.com
Flock can't establish a connection to the server at www.flock.com.
how do i get past this
Hey miss gooden,
I'm not sure why Flock would be trying to access our server...where are you seeing this error message?
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
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blog.evanhamilton.com
RC3: Fantastic release! Everything is working nice, great improvements since 0.7 version. keep on working !! :))
I've switched over entirely to Flock, personally, as it runs great on both my Linux system and my windows box as well. I totally see it as the first real extension of the browser experience in a real long time. So much so that I wrote a big post about it.
I'm trying it and has now become my default browser. Great social networks integration - Facebook, though, misses Wall Post alert. Incredible features like photos upload, blog post (some features might be improved) and media bar. Very stable and user friendly. Too much memory consumption though - even more then FF. Overall rating: AWESOME!
Hey Gabriel,
Thanks for your feedback! Shoot me some numbers on your memory issues and we'll see if we can't get to the bottom of them (evan at flock dot com).
Wall posts: yes, definitely. I miss these too. :) When we first dug into the Facebook API I believe these weren't available, so we'll have to get them into the next version.
Flock on!
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
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Is this Mac version just as good as the Windows version? I have not downloaded it yet because I am always disappointed with Mac versions of things. I am going to wait a bit before I download this but it looks great! I am a blogging expert and great with using editors to decorate and personalize my sites. You will see with my homepage the time I put into them.
Look forward to trying this browser out!
--Amanda
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Thank you for giving me this new-useful-helpful and interesting browser -FLOCK 1.0 :)
As long as Flock is able to deliver all the rich content of Web 2.0, and do it fast, accurately, and conveniently/customizably, then it will succeed among those who value these attributes. There is nothing more annoying than a slow browser unable to render pages accurately, and that can't be customized to _your_ ideas of what browsing, surfing, and networking should be. Too often companies/organizations tell us _end users_ what they think we want, instead of letting us decide for ourselves. Doing _that_ can spell the _doom_ of software evangelism. Flock, of course, does the opposite, giving users flexibility, speed, and great rendering. Thanks gals and guys at Flock. A+ product.
i really hope that the flock has support for the web 2.0 content.
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