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Flock Announces Powerful New Advances for Twitter and Facebook Users in its Latest Browser

The Easiest Way To Share And Stay In Touch With the People and Information You Care About Online

Redwood City, Calif.--May 19, 2009—Flock, the social web browser, today announced the availability of Flock 2.5. This new, free version of the popular browser gives active social users the fastest and easiest way to roam the web, keep in touch with the people and information they care about, and share their favorite content with their friends via the single application used by everyone online, the browser. Flock lets users keep their finger on the pulse of their social networks, yet gives them unprecedented freedom to explore online without having to click back and forth between social networks, websites, tabs, applications and content. And now, Flock is the only browser that allows users to take Facebook Chat with them wherever they go on the Internet.

“Users are interested in the most immediate news and content from their friends and trusted sources,” said Shawn Hardin, CEO of Flock. “While everyone is excited about the explosive growth of Twitter and Facebook, people are having a hard time staying on top of the volume and pace of information and alerts generated by these services. Flock brings everything you care about together in one place, and seamlessly integrates all of your favorite activities into the browser. The end result is that Flock makes the social web experience easy, fun and more fulfilling.”

Flock 2.5 makes both sharing and discovering content fast and easy. To share content, you simply drag and drop URLs, photos, videos, text or other content you find on the web to a friend’s Twitter, Facebook, MySpace or other profile in Flock’s People Sidebar, and it is instantly shared. Flock now also comes with Twitter Search that allows you to save all of your Twitter searches and keep them in one place, making the discovery of content automatic and straightforward.

The new FlockCast capability allows you to ‘broadcast’ your public actions to multiple locations at once, eliminating duplicate effort. Flock makes posting and promoting your own blogs into Facebook effortless; drag and drop content you find anywhere on the Web into your favorite blog and Flock posts it to your Facebook newsfeed. You can also automatically post your Tweets, status updates from MySpace, Bebo and other networks, along with blog posts and photo uploads to Facebook. And when you share a URL in a Twitter message, Flock automatically shortens the URL—eliminating the need to shorten the URL with yet another site. It’s all automatic with Flock.

Flock’s Twitter integration allows you to take full advantage of the browser to easily share content found on the web with your audience on Twitter. You can re-tweet and manage a variety of actions easily from within Flock’s People Sidebar. Flock also helps you manage many conversations by separating your @replies/mentions and direct messages into separate areas within the Flock Sidebar.

The latest release of Flock includes Facebook Chat for instant messaging with friends. Facebook Chat lets you see when other people are on online and makes sharing your discoveries with them easy, so you can remain connected while you travel across the Web. You can also drag and drop photos, videos, links and text into your chats, making your web experience simple, social and fun. (Editor’s Note: Videos of the new Flock 2.5 can be found at http://www.flock.com/tour/new.php)

Flock keeps everything in one place--your favorite people, sites, feeds, media, saved searches and activities--and offers a cure for information overload and social fatigue. Flock helps its users cut through the online clutter, without losing touch or missing out.

As social media explodes, so has Flock activity. There have been over 80,000,000 log-ins to services via Flock since the release of Flock 1.0. Flock users have a lot of friends, and they load those friends over 500,000,000 times into Flock’s People Sidebar each month. Eighty-nine percent of Flock users recommend it to their friends and Flock has sustained over a ninety percent user satisfaction rate. Flock is designed to serve the socially active user that wants to stay connected to various services and keep abreast of the latest information and activity in their lives. And Flock’s international reach is continuing to grow. The company is also announcing that Flock is now compatible with Bebo, the popular international social network. Bebo’s 22 million unique visitors can now enjoy the benefits of Flock and share content across all of their social networks. Bebo friends now appear instantly in the Flock People Sidebar along with your Facebook, MySpace and Twitter friends. With Bebo integration, Flock is now used in over 14,000 cities and over 192 countries and territories.

About Flock

Flock delivers the only browser designed to enhance the active online social user’s experience and liberate them from the complexities of managing multiple social networks, web mail, media, news feeds and blogs. With Flock, they can instantly discover, enjoy and share the relationships and content they are passionate about. For the second year in a row, Flock has been nominated for the Webby Award for social networking (which it won in 2008). Flock has also received the SXSW 2008 Community Award, was listed #6 in PC World’s 100 Best Products of 2008 and received 2008 Eddy Award. Flock was founded in 2005. Flock is free to download and use at http://www.flock.com.

Flock Media Contact:
Julie Karbo
KF Communications
flock@kfcomm.com

Social Web Browser, Flock, Announces Record Year

Company Expands User Base, Adds Integration with MySpace, Digg, and WebMail from Yahoo!, AOL and Google, Secures Funding Round, Numerous Awards and Record Satisfaction

Redwood City, CA --- January 28, 2009 --- Flock, producer of the social web browser, today announced major achievements and significant growth in 2008.

In 2008, Flock was downloaded more than 4.5 million times and the award winning browser saw a 400 percent increase in active users. The satisfaction rate was over 92 percent and over 83 percent of Flock users surveyed indicate that they are recommending Flock to their friends. Flock also announced that over 70 percent of its users set Flock as their primary browser, and on average people use Flock for over four hours per day. Flock’s ability to make discovering, sharing and communicating more rewarding has resulted in over 41 million log-ins across the browser’s 22 integrated web applications. Nearly seven million photos and videos have been accessed using Flock’s Media Bar, 25 million feeds have been accessed via the Feeds Sidebar, and nearly one million blog posts have been made using Flock.

“The engagement we’re seeing with Flock proves that there’s a tremendous opportunity to help our users cut through the clutter online and get more out of the time they have to connect with valued friends and information,” said Shawn Hardin, CEO of Flock. “In 2009, we’re focused on introducing more social users around the globe to the power of a user-centered experience in the browser. You’ll see the result of this continuing commitment to innovation throughout the year.”

Flock also received a number of awards in 2008, including MacWorld’s ‘Eddy’ Editors’ Choice Award, PC World’s “100 Best Products of 2008,” the Webby Award for “Social Networking” and “Best Application” from the Open Web Awards. Flock was also awarded the 2008 South by Southwest Web Award for Best Community and the “Emerging Technology Award” in the category of “Social Networking” from the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.

Flock closed a $15 million Series D round of funding in 2008, led by Fidelity Ventures. The round also includes previous lead investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Catamount Ventures and Shasta Ventures.

Flock is available in more than 18 languages and supports 22 of the most popular web mail, social applications and tools by bringing them one step closer to the user and integrating them directly into the browser.

About Flock

Flock delivers the only browser designed to enhance the active online social user’s experience and liberate them from the complexities of managing multiple social networks, web mail, media, news feeds and blogs. With Flock, they can instantly discover, enjoy and share the relationships and content they are passionate about. In 2008, Flock received the Webby Award for social networking, the SXSW Community Award, a MacWorld Eddy Award and was listed #6 in PC World’s 100 Best Products of 2008. Flock was founded in 2005. Flock is free to download and use at http://www.flock.com.

Contact:
Julie Karbo
KF Communications
flock@kfcomm.com

MySpace, Flock and Vidoop Collaborate to Develop OpenID Identity in the Browser

Prototype to Allow Users to Log-in Seamlessly Across OpenID Compliant Sites

Redwood City, CA—December 2, 2008—MySpace, Flock and Vidoop today announced that they have developed OpenID for Flock, an implementation of the broader Identity in Browser (IDIB) open source project. OpenID for Flock offers the most comprehensive discovery and management capabilities for OpenID currently available. Internet users can now not only store their existing identity credentials within their browser, but also reap the benefits of better discovery when OpenIDs are made available by the sites they are visiting. OpenID for Flock is now available to all Flock 2.0 users as an alpha extension available for download at https://extensions.flock.com/extensions and http://vidoop.com/labs/.

With OpenID for Flock, the process of discovering, configuring and using OpenIDs that allow the user to log onto website accounts and manage their identity is streamlined. Once a relationship is established between OpenIDs and the sites that can rely on them for authentication, an easy, seamless experience is created for users that frequently travel to multiple destinations across the Internet.

"We are three companies dedicated to helping people better share their content and experiences online, and we saw an opportunity to collaborate to quickly create a way for users to more easily manage their online identity," said Max Engel, product lead for the MySpace Data Availability Platform. "Our goal was to eliminate some of the work involved in jumping between social experiences on the Web. The extension we jointly developed will give the community an easier way to seamlessly carry their identity and preferences in their browser."

MySpace, Flock and Vidoop jointly developed OpenID for Flock because the browser is the common application used by everyone to make the connection between both OpenID providers and sites that support login using the OpenID standard. Vidoop was the catalyst behind the original Identity In Browser (IDIB) project. The collaboration started in October 2008 when Vidoop Labs produced a fledgling prototype of IDIB, shared the code with the community, and blogged about the need for online identity to be solved at the browser level. MySpace became involved because of their commitment to OpenID via the company’s Data Availability Platform and Flock contributed their browser expertise based on their commitment to OpenID and furthering usability.

While other OpenID browser extensions exist, they do not provide the OpenID discovery capabilities and management features that OpenID for Flock provides. For example, OpenID for Flock senses when a user lands on a site that has provided them with an OpenID, allows configuration, management and usage tracking of all OpenIDs the user has collected, and provides a visual alert when a stored OpenID can be used to log onto a site. Users can choose which of their OpenIDs they wish to log in for each site and view the login history for each OpenID-to-site relationship they have created. With this technology, users may now more easily traverse the web, experience many more sites and leverage more connections using only one credential for each site.

OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity. IDIB is an emerging follow-on project that is focused on determining how OpenID in the browser will help OpenID gain overall adoption, and realize the better security and ubiquity that OpenID can provide. The MySpace, Flock and Vidoop implementation is a reference design released as open source under GPL, and as such, modifications by developers will be brought together and shared with the wider open source developer community. Details on the IDIB project and OpenID for Flock are available at the project’s Google group page located at http://code.google.com/p/idib/.

About MySpace
MySpace, a unit of Fox Interactive Media Inc., is the premier lifestyle portal for connecting with friends, discovering popular culture, and making a positive impact on the world. MySpace has created a connected global community by integrating web profiles, blogs, instant messaging, e-mail, music streaming, music videos, photo galleries, classified listings, events, groups, college communities, and member forums. MySpace's international network includes more than 30 localized community sites in the United States, Brazil, Canada, Latin America, Mexico, Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, India, Japan, and New Zealand. Fox Interactive Media is a division of News Corp. (NYSE:NWS - News, NWS.A - News; ASX:NWS - News, NWSLV - News).

Among the top 2000 domains comScore Media Metrix, October 2008. For more information on comScore, please go to www.comscore.com.

About Flock
Flock delivers the only browser designed to enhance the active online social user’s experience and liberate them from the complexities of managing multiple social networks, web mail, media, news feeds and blogs. With Flock, they can instantly discover, enjoy and share the relationships and content they are passionate about. In 2008, Flock received the Webby Award for social networking, the SXSW Community Award and was listed #6 in PC World’s 100 Best Products of 2008. Flock was founded in 2005. Flock is free to download and use at http://www.flock.com.

About Vidoop
Portland, Ore.-based Vidoop provides institutions enterprise-level, multi-factor authentication solutions without the use of tokens or hardware. The company was founded in March 2006 by principals Joel Norvell and Luke Sontag to bring strong authentication to the consumer web. Vidoop, which employees experienced developers from Microsoft®, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, as well as the banking and healthcare industries, also provides consumers with a free password manager and online identity.
For more information, visit http://www.vidoop.com/.

Contact:
Julie Karbo
KF Communications
flock@kfcomm.com

Flock 2.0 Is First Browser To Provide Automatic Image And Video Feeds to 400 Mill Social Application Users

MySpace Members Can Now Instantly Discover and Share Their Relationships and Content Throughout the Web

Redwood City, California – October 15, 2008 – Flock, the social web browser, today announced the delivery of a new version of the Flock browser. Flock 2.0 is the first browser to allow 400 million social application users to automatically receive image and video feeds. The company also announced integration with the MySpace Data Availability platform, which empowers users to take their social experiences across the web into other social networking, media sharing, web mail, news, and blog sites.

Flock allows its users to easily discover and share information and communications from applications such as Twitter, Digg, Gmail, YouTube – and now for the first time, MySpace. Flock does this by automatically delivering people, content, activities, and media that are relevant to its users, directly via the browser.

As the number of social media, webmail, feeds and blogs that any one person uses increases, so has the level of social application fatigue and information overload. The desire to receive up-to-the-minute information combined with the growing number of ‘always open’ applications has driven the design of Flock 2.0.

“As the browser market and the social space mature we’re seeing a natural evolution toward better options for consumers,” said Shawn Hardin, CEO of Flock. “Many users now belong to two or more social networks in addition to juggling multiple email, news feeds and numerous web-based applications. People who value keeping up with friends on the Web are migrating to Flock, because we let them cut through the clutter and focus on what’s important to them—the friends, media, information and events they care about.”

With the newly announced Media RSS capability, Flock becomes the first browser to automatically deliver image and video feeds to users even if they don’t belong to the most popular social networks. By simply clicking on the media stream icon next to Flock’s URL bar, the user can select from available streams and easily subscribe to them by ‘favoriting’ them in Flock’s Media Bar. Images from that source will automatically be downloaded into the Flock user’s MyWorld page and made accessible for easy viewing in the Media Bar. These images can then be dragged and dropped into profiles in the People Sidebar to instantly send them to friends, or they can be easily integrated into a blog post.

Flock 2.0 is the only browser that offers simple sharing and communication between MySpace and other socially driven applications. Flock 2.0:

• Lets MySpace users introduce friends with one click via the Flock People Sidebar.

• Lets MySpace users keep in touch with their social network friends and read what they’re doing and saying on Flock’s easy to see and track People Sidebar.
• Makes photos and videos easily accessible in the Media Bar. This makes it faster for MySpace users to scroll through friends’ photos, while also sharing and commenting on videos, songs and images.
• Lets them drag and drop photos, articles, videos—anything they want to share—directly onto a friend’s profile, into an email or directly into their blog. Or users can save cool things they’ve found in their Flock Web Clipboard to send later.
• Brings all of the people, content and media feeds users care about into one place via the user’s MyWorld page. And Flock lets them easily track, update and organize feeds.
• Lets bloggers quickly and easily drag content from multiple sources into the Flock Blog Editor, and publish on the fly from anywhere on the web.

“The MySpace integration in Flock is a great example of an application that helps users stay connected with their life on MySpace and easily share content with their friends throughout the Web,” said Max Engel, product lead for the MySpace Data Availability Platform. “Flock’s integration with the MySpace Data Availability Platform helps users take advantage of robust functionality in the browser to enrich users’ social experiences.”

Flock 2.0 incorporates the latest Firefox 3.0 enhancements around performance, security, and privacy. Flock also supports 24 of the most popular web mail, social applications and tools by bringing them one step closer to the user and integrating them directly into the browser.

Flock By The Numbers

From the time Flock began shipping in November 2007 there have been over a quarter billion social actions taken in the Flock browser. Through anonymous feature usage tracking those social actions include:

• Over 30,000,000 log-ins across Flock’s integrated web applications.

• 150,000,000 friends are loaded into the People Sidebar each month
• 10,000,000 media streams have been loaded in Flock’s Media Bar
• 6,000,000 photos and videos have been accessed in the Media Bar
• Over 5,500,000 photos have been uploaded
• 13,000,000 feeds have been accessed via Flock's Feeds Sidebar
• Close to 1,000,000 blog posts have published using Flock’s blog editor

Flock also announced that over 70% of their users use Flock as their primary browser. Satisfaction rates are over 90% and over 75% of users recommend Flock to their friends. Flock users come from 165 countries and territories, including Vatican City. Flock is available in 18 languages. Approximately 50% of Flock’s users are outside of the U.S.

About Flock

Flock delivers the only browser designed to enhance the active online social user’s experience and liberate them from the complexities of managing multiple social networks, web mail, media, news feeds and blogs. With Flock, they can instantly discover, enjoy and share the relationships and content they are passionate about. In 2008, Flock received the Webby Award for social networking, the SXSW Community Award and was listed #6 in PC World’s 100 Best Products of 2008. Flock was founded in 2005. Flock is free to download and use at http://www.flock.com.

Contact:
Julie Karbo
KF Communications
flock@kfcomm.com

Flock Announces New Fashion and Entertainment Edition of Award Winning Social Web Browser

“Gloss” Edition Browser Features Content from Top Entertainment, Fashion and Beauty Web Sites Such as Popsugar, InStyle.com and Glam.com

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – July 23, 2008 – Flock (http://www.flock.com), the innovative social Web browser that helps its users connect, share and discover the best of the modern Web, today announced the availability of the Gloss Edition, the world’s first and only fashion and entertainment browser. The Gloss Edition is based on the latest version of the award winning Flock browser, and comes pre-populated with best of breed news, photos, videos and feeds from more than 35 fashion and entertainment content partners across the Web.

Flock’s Gloss Edition is designed to deliver the latest fashion interviews, red carpet events and the hottest style trends to users allowing them to easily share content and information with friends. Flock’s Media Streams, News Feeds and Favorites features have been pre-programmed with content recommended from today’s leading lifestyle sources like Popsugar, InStyle.com, Glam.com, ThisNext.com, Ecorazzi.com, DesignerApparel.com and other leading style and entertainment brands.

“Flock makes the organization and presentation of this content intuitive and helps users easily discover and share media, feeds and information with their social network profiles, family and friends,” said Shawn Hardin, CEO of Flock. “The Gloss Edition, together with the recently released Eco-Edition, demonstrates the power of Flock’s platform to serve diverse groups who are deeply passionate about a variety of interests.”

“Glam Media is excited to be a part of Flock’s Gloss edition,” said Ryan Roslansky, Vice President, Products & Content, Glam Media. “With integration at the browser level, we’ll be able to reach new audiences while providing an easy way for consumers to access content from our more than 500 popular lifestyle publishers in the Glam Network.”

Additionally, Popsugar and InStyle fans will have the option to download special Popsugar and InStyle versions of the Gloss Edition browser. The content of the two versions will remain with the same great fashion and entertainment features, but will include default homepages featuring the respective partner sites.

The Flock Gloss Edition Browser is available as a free software download for Mac, PC and Linux at http://www.flock.com/gloss.

Contact:
Julie Karbo
KF Communications
flock@kfcomm.com

Flock Releases 2.0 Beta, Built on Cutting Edge Firefox 3 Technology

Social Web Browser Takes Advantage of Latest Performance and Security Improvements From Mozilla

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – June 16, 2008 – Flock (www.flock.com), the innovative social Web browser that helps its users connect, share and discover the best of the modern Web, today announced that the Flock 2.0 Beta, built on the latest Firefox 3 technology, is now available for early trials.

“Flock is thrilled to announce the Flock 2.0 beta. Thousands of global developers and contributors have made Mozilla's open source technology the best in the world,” said Shawn Hardin, CEO of Flock. “Now our users can experience the best of both worlds with all of the performance and security improvements of Firefox 3, combined with Flock’s unique social browsing experience.”

Flock 2.0 includes all of the enhanced browsing capabilities that have been widely recognized with numerous awards, including the 2008 Webby for Social Networking and as #6 on PC World’s 100 Best Products list of 2008. Flock’s powerful features include easier connecting, sharing, discovering and publishing, plus all of the latest performance, security, and UI enhancements from FireFox 3. Highlights include:

• Improved Performance:

• Faster page rendering with new and improved Gecko 1.9 Web rendering engine

• Reduced memory footprint over the duration of browsing sessions
• Complex web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run twice as fast

• Security Improvements

• Site security is validated within the address bar

• Malware detection and blocking functionality has been added with visible alerts
• Improved Password Manager reduces the amount of memory required

• User Interface Feature Enhancements:

• New Location bar auto-completes based on user history and favorites

• New Favorites Manager combines favorites, tags and browsing history
• New Download Manager allows users to resume downloads after re-start

Flock 2.0 Beta is now available for free download at http://www.flock.com/beta/download.

About Flock

Flock is the first and only social Web browser that helps users connect, share and discover the best of the modern Web. Flock delivers a more personal Web experience, where users are in control and more connected to what they value. In 2008, Flock received the Webby Award for social networking, the SXSW Community Award and was listed #6 in PC World’s 100 Best Products of 2008. Built on Mozilla’s constantly improving Firefox architecture (http://www.flock.com/mozilla) Flock is free to download and use at http://www.flock.com. Founded in 2005, Flock is based in Redwood City, Calif. and has an office in Victoria, British Columbia.

Contact:
Julie Karbo
KF Communications
flock@kfcomm.com

Flock Browser Expands Its List of Supported Services with Digg, Pownce, and AOL Webmail

Flock brings more sought after Web services to its users in the release of 1.2

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – June 2, 2008 – Flock (www.flock.com), the innovative social Web browser that helps its users connect, share and discover the best of the modern Web, today announced it has added Digg, Pownce and AOL Webmail to its ever-expanding list of supported services as part of its 1.2 release. As social networking and Web services continue to grow in popularity, Flock offers intuitive navigation across a variety of sites and services, enabling users to organize and integrate what is important to them in one easy environment.

“We’re thrilled to add Digg, Pownce and AOL Mail to Flock’s stable of supported services - each one has an engaged, active and loyal user community,” said Shawn Hardin, CEO of Flock. “We are especially happy when we can give Flock users access to the popular services they request, and each of these new partners was ready with open platforms.”

The full release of Flock 1.2, available as a free software download for Mac, PC and Linux at http://www.flock.com, includes the following new features:

• Digg – Flock has added support for the pioneering social content site, Digg. Flock users can now submit or ‘Digg’ news stories, videos, images or other Web content from any Web page by clicking a designated Digg button; track friends’ submissions and votes; and easily access the top five most popular stories on Digg.

• Pownce – Flock has also added the micro-blogging service, Pownce, to the sidebar. If you have a Pownce account you can share files and comment on them without opening up a separate webpage.
• AOL Webmail Integration – Flock has added AOL Webmail to let users quickly and easily access their email account, joining Gmail and Yahoo! Mail, which were integrated in Flock’s 1.1 release. When new emails arrive, the Flock Mail icon lights up to let Flock users know that new messages are waiting for them.

Since January 2008, Flock’s user base has increased by more than 300 percent while its revenue has risen by more than 400 percent. Flock has seen more than 3.5 million downloads of its social web browser, with nearly 70 percent of Flock users making it their default browser of choice.

Flock 1.2 is now available for free download at http://www.flock.com.

About Flock
Flock is the first and only social Web browser that helps users connect, share and discover the best of the modern Web. Flock delivers a more personal Web experience, where users are in control and more connected to what they value. In 2008, Flock received the Webby Award for social networking, the SXSW Community Award and was listed #6 in PC World’s 100 Best Products of 2008. Built on Mozilla’s constantly improving Firefox architecture (http://www.flock.com/mozilla) Flock is free to download and use at http://www.flock.com. Founded in 2005, Flock is based in Redwood City, Calif. and has an office in Victoria, British Columbia.

Contact:
Julie Karbo
KF Communications
flock@kfcomm.com

Flock Named As One of PC World's "100 Best Products of 2008"

Marking its fourth award win this year, Flock ranked as top browser of 2008

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – May 29, 2008 – Flock (www.flock.com), the first and only social Web browser that helps users connect, share and discover the best of the modern Web, today announced that it was honored by PC World Magazine as one of the 100 Best Products of 2008. The full list is available now on PCWorld.com and will also be featured in the July 2008 issue of PC World, which hits news stands June 17.

The respected 100 Best Products Awards honor products that join practical features with innovation that reflect the rapidly changing technology marketplace. To select the winners, PC World’s editors examined hundreds of products, including those that have appeared in the magazine within the past 12 months. The 100 product and service winners were selected for their commendable design and usability, features, performance and innovation.

“Being recognized by PC World as one of the best products of 2008 affirms Flocks’ ongoing commitment to make the user engagement as effortless as possible,” said Shawn Hardin, CEO of Flock. “We’re entering a new chapter in social networking where the popularity of networks has created the need to integrate the experience into one easy environment.”

Since January 2008, Flock’s user base has increased by more than 300 percent while its revenue has risen by more than 400 percent. Since its launch, there have been more than 3.5 million downloads of the Flock browser, and since it’s first commercial release in 2007, nearly 70 percent of users have made Flock their default browser.

About Flock
Flock is the first and only social Web browser that helps users connect, share and discover the best of the modern Web. Flock delivers a more personal Web experience, where users are in control and more connected to what they value. In 2008, Flock received the Webby Award for social networking, the SXSW Community Award and was listed #6 in PC World’s 100 Best Products of 2008. Built on Mozilla’s constantly improving Firefox architecture (http://www.flock.com/mozilla) Flock is free to download and use at http://www.flock.com. Founded in 2005, Flock is based in Redwood City, Calif. and has an office in Victoria, British Columbia.

Contact:
Julie Karbo
KF Communications
flock@kfcomm.com

Flock Closes $15 Million Financing Round, Led by Fidelity Ventures

Funding enables Flock to expand globally and extend leadership in browser innovation

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – May 22, 2008 – Flock (www.flock.com), the innovative, award-winning social Web browser, today announced that it has completed a $15 million Series D round of venture funding led by Fidelity Ventures. All previous lead investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Catamount Ventures and Shasta Ventures, also participated.

This new funding exceeds the amounts raised in all prior rounds combined and will be used to provide growth capital to expand Flock’s business, including research and development, marketing and expansion into new global markets. According to Datamonitor, there are currently over 230 million members of social networks globally, and revenues are projected to reach $2.4 billion by 2012^[1]. Fidelity Ventures brings the advantages of its tremendous global reach and experience to assist in growing Flock’s business.

“We are thrilled to close this significant round of financing,” said Shawn Hardin, CEO of Flock. “Following the tremendous market response to Flock’s commercial release, this new funding will enable us to continue our browser innovation – making engagement and participation across social networks and the Web as effortless as consumption.”

“The browser is strategic because it enables nearly everything users do online,” said Larry Cheng, Partner at Fidelity Ventures. “Flock's social browser is the most compelling innovation in the browser market in over a decade. The reasons we invested are simple: great product, fantastic user adoption, and excellent revenue growth.”

Since January 2008, Flock’s user base has increased by more than 250 percent while its revenue has risen by more than 400 percent. In addition, Flock was named the winner of the Webby Award in the Social Networking category, which also included noteworthy nominees Facebook and Bebo. Hailed as the “the Internet’s highest honor” by the New York Times, The 12th annual Webby Awards received over 10,000 nominations from more than 60 countries worldwide.