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If Fashion Is Your Thing? – Flock’s New Gloss Edition Is The Browser For You
We’ve got a fun product to tell you about. Today, Flock launched its latest product that is geared towards people who are passionate about keeping up with Fashion, Entertainment and Lifestyle trends. Flock’s ‘Gloss Edition’ is the world’s first fashion and entertainment browser designed to help people keep up with the latest fashion trends and celebrity lifestyle scoop (o.k. gossip).
We’ve put together a bundle of the best sources on the Web to bring you your daily dose of fashion inspiration, celebrity dish, and trends by including over 35 leading content providers and partners, from Glam, PopSugar, InStyle, ThisNext, DesignerApparel, AllTop and others. The best part about it is that all of this information comes to you, and is updated immediately as news and images are published. You’ll never miss a beat and people will wonder how you stay on top of it all.
We’ve also worked with a great panel of women to design a theme for the Gloss Edition of Flock that is pink, ‘soft’, fun and well suited for the fashionistas’ never-ending pursuit of stylish individuality.
We had fun building the Gloss Edition and we hope you have fun with the experience that it delivers. Check it out, and please don’t keep it a secret. Tell your friends about Flock.com/gloss.
-Cheers
Dan Burkhart
Vice President, Marketing
Dan at flock dot com
Flock 2 with Firefox 3 inside = WOW!
Hello all,
With all of the attention around the imminent release of Mozilla’s Firefox 3 technology, we’ve been beaming with enthusiasm about what’s in store for Flock fans. Last night, we pushed our public beta (one) of Flock 2 live. Flock 2 incorporates all of the latest features found in Flock’s recent public release, but it runs on the latest and greatest Firefox 3 technology from Mozilla. So now you don’t have to abandon your love affair with your new favorite browser to check out the latest performance, security and feature enhancements from Mozilla. We’ve got them all right here for you!
Flock 2 is FAST. Manages memory better, and is more secure, thanks to Mozilla’s Firefox 3 technology.
As with all beta software, you might experience some imperfections. We’ve all been running the Flock 2 beta internally for several months, gathering our notes and fixing these imperfections as they arise, but now we could really use your assistance to make Flock 2 the only choice for those that refuse to stand still, and refuse to accept a world in which their browser just browses for them.
The Flock 2 beta marks a very important watershed moment for us. And we have some amazing things planned for the remainder of the year, so please help us refine this product by running Flock 2 beta (one), and logging imperfections by using the ‘bug icon’ in the upper right of your browser.
We will make the full migration to an official release of Flock 2 as soon as possible, pending your feedback.
We’ve got fuel in our tanks, and we’re here to show the world how much they’ve been missing by using plain browsers. Get on board, and help us out by sending your comments, love, enthusiasm, and of course…by telling your friends about Flock!
Our mission is all about you!
-Dan Burkhart
VP of Marketing
dan at flock dot com
Tags: flock2, flock, browser, firefox3, firefox 3, mozilla, beta
Flock Welcomes Digg and Pownce, and Looks Toward Firefox 3 Integration
The beta period for Flock’s 1.2 browser is now officially over. Although we continually juggle inbound requests for new service integrations, we couldn’t be happier about this latest release with Digg and Pownce built in. Two weeks ago, we released the Flock 1.2 beta and have since been inundated with heaps of great encouraging comments from our users. Although we’re generally not driven by an interest in feeding the vices of our users, the words ‘addicting’ and ‘addictive’ have been used more than ever in the way that we’ve seen our browser described since we integrated Digg and Pownce into the experience.
"Really like the Digg button. Far too addictive! You have a magnificent product."
Go nuts! We love it too! Now that we’ve really got things cooking for you, we’re ready to offer a peek into our next round of progress. Within the coming weeks Flock will release it’s first beta of Flock 2.0, which incorporates the Mozilla technology that powers Firefox 3. So get ready to have all of the latest performance (memory management), security and feature enhancements found in the latest Firefox 3 release along with the unique user experience innovations only delivered by the Flock browser.
If you’re finding yourselves addicted now, then we’ll be anxious to hear from you when you have the features you love, running on the latest Mozilla technology we’re all raving about.
As always, if you’ve become a convert to the Flock browser, please tell a friend to check us out and…Digg us!
-Cheers
Dan Burkhart
Vice President, Marketing
dan at flock dot com
Tags: Flock, Browser, Digg, Pownce, Firefox3, "Firefox 3, "Flock 2.0 beta
Flock Voted #6 in PC World's Top 100 Products of 2008
We recently became aware that Flock was selected as one of PC World's top 100 products of 2008. This is flattering for us, and another great validation that our vision is resonating with the world. We were not only in the company of many wonderful other products and services, but we were listed as #6 on the list of 100 services.
Rather than doing some kind of chicken dance to show our jubilation for this acknowledgement, I'll simply point you to the list so that you can check out the many wonderful companies which also received this recognition. Of course, we pay close attention to the other browsers, and we are extremely humbled to be listed as the top browser by PC World.
The pace of progress here at Flock has been steady. In November of 2007, Flock launched our first commercial release with the 1.0 version of our browser. Today, we find ourselves almost half way into 2008, and we're launching our third full commercial release with the 1.2 version of our browser.
We've got some great things planned for the remainder of 2008, and look forward to continued innovation in pursuit of delighting Flock fans worldwide.
Tags: flock, browser, award, PCWorld, FireFox3, "Firefox 3, mozilla, best, 2008
Flock 1.2 Beta gives more reason to love this browser
As I'm sure you've noticed, the developers here at Flock are not ones to stand still very long. We're proud to announce that today, Flock's 1.2 public beta release is available on our site. With this latest release, Flock has integrated Digg, Pownce and AOL Mail into the browser, making it easier than ever for Flock users to stay connected with their friends and favorite services on the Web.
Let me start with Digg. What's not to love about Digg? They pioneered the whole category of social news and have done an incredible job of making news entertaining and engaging for everyone. Fortunately for all of us, the folks at Digg have made news consumption cool for an entire generation of people. We like what they've done so much that we made sure you can take Digg with you wherever you are on the Web by using Flock. Flock's People sidebar plugs right into Digg so that you can always check out the stories that your friends have Dugg and easily share with them from anywhere on the web. You can also post your discoveries to Digg easily by using your sidebar or the Diggman icon next to the address bar in Flock. We're all really excited about the Digg integration and look forward to hearing your comments.
But that's not all! We've also integrated Pownce into this beta release. Pownce is a service that "allows you to send stuff to your friends," such as music, photos, videos, messages and links. Pownce is another highly useful service which appears as a 'People' service in Flock. Pownce and Flock fit very nicely together, because we share the belief that connecting and sharing with your friends keeps things much more interesting. We're very happy about the addition of Pownce and hope that you enjoy their service as much as we do.
Rounding out this release, we've also added AOL Mail to Flock's existing webmail options.
We couldn't be happier about the continuing evolution of newly added services into the Flock experience and honestly couldn't have asked for a nicer group of folks to work with across the board.
We look forward to hearing your thoughts on this latest beta release. Please send us your thoughts and comments to our feedback page.
Cheers and Enjoy!
-Dan Burkhart
VP of Marketing
dan at flock dot com
Tags: browser, flock, digg, pownce, aol, beta, download, "flock 1.2, email, "Nice People
Flock Wins a Webby Award for Best in Social Networking
Wow. We honestly didn't prepare a speech for this event...
A few weeks back, Flock was humbled to have been nominated amongst such esteemed heavyweights as Facebook, Bebo, Ning and ChangeEverything.ca for the annual Webby Awards in the Social Networking category. Late last night, we were alerted that Flock won the Webby Award for this incredibly competitive category. 
For a 40 person company, filled with passionate individuals who have been working late nights and straight through weekends, this is a very pleasant, unexpected, and flattering surprise!
This year marked the 12th annual Webby Awards ceremony. They received over 10,000 nominations from 60+ countries worldwide. The Webbys have long been recognized as a very special acknowledgement of the companies that are leading in key areas of excellence and innovation. Past Webby Award winners have included: Amazon.com, eBay, Yahoo!, iTunes, Google, NPR, Salon Magazine, Evite, Meetup, Wikipedia, Flickr, PBS, and The Onion.
We are delighted about receiving this prestigious award, and would also like to congratulate Facebook for winning the People's Voice award within the same category. We're very close with the good folks over at Facebook and always appreciate what good partners they have been to Flock.
As always, we continue to be grateful to the millions of users around the world who have downloaded Flock, and to those that continue to champion Flock as a fun, fresh and innovative alternative to conventional browsers.
Thanks to the Judges of the Webby Awards, as well as our own Community of Flockstars for making the first third of 2008 a wild success.
-Cheers!
Dan Burkhart
Vice President, Marketing
dan at flock dot com
Tags: flock, webby, award, winner, browser, webbyawards, 2008, mozilla, "social networking"
Happy Good People Day 08
Hey Flockstars,
I was sitting in the weekly Flock Staff Meeting today, and I couldn't help but mention to the team: "our community is awesome!"
I feel this way all the time, but the reason I had to specifically call it out this week is because you all have been incredibly supportive and helpful during the short sidebar outage (two Flockstars even provided their Facebook login info to help us track it down).
Minutes later, while trying to digest some intense staff meeting pasta, I ran across the awesometacular Gary Vaynerchuck's video about "Good People Day 08". He is always an inspiring guy, but he is positively bursting about GPD08, for good reason: there are few better feelings than recognizing and thanking good people in your life.
With that in mind, Flock would like to officially hand our Good People Day '08 thumbs up to you, our fantastic community.
There is a reason we affectionately refer to those who use Flock as Flockstars. You folks rock. You are our stars. Because of you, we are able to continue having a blast making this product we LOVE. Because of your constant feedback, we are able to make Flock better and better in a way we never could entirely through internal brainstorming.
Most importantly, because of your outspoken love for Flock, your ecstatic word-of-mouth, your blog posts, your Twittering, your VOICE, we are still here building an amazing browser that we care about just as much as you do.
Thank you.
Keep on spreading the word and we'll keep making this thing for you.
Now it's your turn...head out into the world and thank the good people in your lives.
Flock'n'roll,
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
Tags: GPD08, Gary Vaynerchuck, Flock, browser, Flockstar, Flockstars, Good People Day 08
The Netscape Spirit Lives On
It wasn???t that long ago when people were buzzing about the (then) whiz kid, Marc Andreessen, and his amazing Mosaic browser, which later resulted in the explosive growth and meteoric rise of the Netscape browser. Netscape not only brought the Internet to the masses, but it played a role in changing the world. It goes without saying that the innovation was too important to go unnoticed.
That same spirit of innovation that brought the original Netscape browser to 90% of our desktops, and ultimately the open-source Mozilla Project. This started the populist movement inspiring developers from around the world to contribute code for the collective call-to-action of out-innovating its formidable competitor. Somewhere between the punk-rock appeal of the Boston Tea Party, and the socialist ideal of thousands of developers connected by a desire to work together to build a superior product, the Open Source movement flourished better than ever before. With AOL???s support, the Mozilla Project became the Mozilla Foundation, and Firefox became the rallying cry for users seeking a more secure, better performing, innovative browser built by the people, for the people.
Our charter here at Flock has been made possible in part by coupling the same innovative spirit that pioneering Netscape developers used to bring browsing to the masses, with the foundation of shared technology that Mozilla???s Open Source charter generously makes available to us. We have been invigorated by the daily emails and positive comments we receive from our users, and feel confident that Flock is playing an important role of keeping the spirit of innovative browser evolution alive and well.
With the decision to cease ongoing support of the Netscape browser, we are honored to have the support and endorsement of AOL and Netscape, who have introduced Flock to millions of loyal Netscape users as AOL sunsets ongoing support for the Netscape products in the field. Tom Drapeau from Netscape has been instrumental in helping increase awareness of the Flock browser, and by doing so has introduced a global audience of people to the unique experience that only the Flock browser delivers.
Flock is designed to support and enhance the way that we use the web today. We appreciate Tom???s assistance in helping get the word out, and encourage you to be a champion of innovation by telling your friends about your experience with Flock as well. If you like the idea of people working late nights to deliver a free product to you, so that you can get more enjoyment out of your daily web experience, please lend a hand.
Netscape ruled, and now Flock rocks! We???re committed to keeping the Netscape???s original spirit of innovation alive and well.
-Many Thanks
Dan Burkhart
VP of Marketing
dan at flock dot com
Tags: browser, Netscape, "Tom Drapeau, Mozilla, Firefox, Flock
Flock Sidebar Log-In Remedy
Update: Flock 1.1.1 does fix all the People sidebar issues. You should receive an automatic update to 1.1.1 shortly, or you can manually upgrade by downloading it from www.flock.com. Localized updates are slightly behind schedule because of a build server issue, but should be out in the next day or so.
Hello Folks,
We’ve become aware that some Flock users have recently been experiencing issues with their Facebook People sidebar not logging in. Even though everyone can still log into Facebook, the much loved People sidebar is not logging in as it should.
We continue to make good progress on this matter. For the broad majority of users, downloading the latest version of Flock from our homepage will provide the fix you are looking for. If you download the latest version of Flock and you are still experiencing problems with your Facebook People sidebar, we’d like to hear from you at flock-feedback2 at flock dot com.
We will be pushing out an automatic upgrade to the latest version of Flock (version 1.1.1) shortly to make sure that all those affected with this authentication problem have their lives returned to normal Flock goodness.
-Thanks for hanging in there with us
Dan Burkhart
VP of Marketing
dan at flock dot com
Tags: Flock, browser, sidebar, facebook, log-in, fix, authentication
Facebook Login Issue Affecting Some Users - UPDATED: Problem Solved
Update:This problem has been solved in Flock 1.1.1. To fix the sidebar issue please download and install Flock 1.1.1 from www.flock.com or by going to Help>Check for Updates. Thanks for your patience and help!
We've seen reports that some folks are logging into Facebook as usual, but the People sidebar in Flock isn't opening. It's as if the login to the page is working, but the additional features in Flock aren't available (specifically the People sidebar isn't recognizing the login). That's exactly what's happening: for reasons we don't yet fully understand, the Facebook API is not allowing authentication in these cases.
These symptoms don't seem to be very wide-spread, but until we've determined and fixed the API issue you might see this behavior. If you do, here's how to work around it. With the help of some Flockstars out there we've gotten a hold of Facebook accounts that exhibit this problem, and we've discovered the following work-around: in all cases we have found that clicking the 'Accounts' or the 'Privacy' link on facebook.com will "kick-start" the API authentication, and the People bar will start working again.
If you are logging into Facebook and not seeing the People sidebar as usual, please click on Privacy or Accounts on the facebook.com page. This should make API come to life and allow the authentication you need for your people to flow into the sidebar. If clicking either Accounts or Privacy on the facebook.com page doesn't return things to normal, please let us know (flock-feedback2 at flock dot com).
We will work with the fine folks over at facebook.com to get a permanent solution to this in the coming days. In the meantime, please follow the instructions above, and accept our apologies for this temporary inconvenience.
Thank you
-Dan Burkhart
VP of Marketing
dan at flock dot com
Tags: flock, facebook, fix, sidebar, login
Flock Wins Web Award at SXSW Conference
Hot off the press, blogging live from this year's South By Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin TX. Flock won for best showing in the Community category. No doubt in large part to the raving support of our loyal community, who keep championing Flock as the best browser for the way we use the web today. Given the always interesting crowd of entrepreneurs and trend-setters at SXSW, we couldn't be happier about this acknowledgement of Flock. Thank you, SXSW.
No Community Office Hours on Monday
Hey Flockstars,
I will be setting up Flock's booth at MacWorld on Monday and unable to hold Community Office Hours. I will try to reschedule for later in the week.
If you're in the Bay Area and would like to chat about Flock in person, drop me a line at evan at flock dot com; I'd love to set up a Flockstar meetup near MacWorld for some night next week.
Flock on,
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
Flock To The Web 2.0 Conference In Berlin
Hello. I'm David "West" Westendorf, Flock’s Vice President of Partnerships & Business Development, which means that I get to meet a bunch of great folks to talk about working with Flock in different capacities. I'm writing today to reach out to our significant Flockstar community in Europe. I am attending the Web 2.0 conference in Berlin this week and will be meeting with many partners and potential partners during my stay. Our localizer community is already in the midst of localizing Flock v1.0 into many languages, and we're excited about the prospect of working with many friends outside of the US. If the company you work for is interested in working with Flock, whether it be integration, distribution, marketing, or otherwise, I would love to sit down with you while I’m at the conference this week.
You can reach me at west at flock dot com if you're interested in meeting up in Berlin to discuss new business opportunities
Auf Wiedersehen,
David Westendorf
Blogged with Flock
Meet Your New Favorite Browser - Flock 1.0!
It is my sincere pleasure to announce the release of Flock version 1.0. The Social Web Browser is now available to download from www.flock.com. This event marks a significant milestone for our company. When I arrived at Flock one year ago, the primary goal I set for the company was to transform us from a great idea company into a world-class innovation and execution company. Since that time, the tremendous work from all across Flock’s expanding organization has demonstrated this team’s appetite and capability to do exactly that: we upgraded the underlying technology platform for Flock with version 0.8 in Q1 of this year, we enhanced significantly the dependability, discoverability and feature integration with version 0.9 in Q2, we released over two hundred bug fixes and feature enhancements with version 0.9.1 in Q3, and today we are launching the full release of Flock 1.0, with the integration of “people in the browser”, available as a free download for Mac, PC and Linux.
The 1.0 Social Web Browser incorporates all your friends across numerous popular social services (Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and Twitter). We hear from our 1.0 beta users every day that this product has changed the way they are engaging with and experiencing the Web. The most frequently used adjective describing this version of Flock is ‘addictive’. We take that as a real compliment, and a strong vote that Flock is onto something very special.
Flock 1.0 is also a platform, and you will see an expansion of the social and media services with which Flock is integrated early in the New Year, along with the formal release of our 1.0 API for developers and third parties around the world to leverage, add services and further contribute to Flock’s capabilities.
With your help, and the millions of new users we plan to serve in the year ahead, we will continue to be champions of open-standards, and strive to continually deliver unique and meaningful experiences that place the user at the center of everything, and are made possible only from within the browser.
We’re incredibly excited by the launch of Flock 1.0. The Flock team is both grateful and enormously proud of the overwhelmingly positive response to our 1.0 release, and I want to personally thank all of the passionate community members and Flock users who have emailed enthusiastic notes of encouragement. Your tremendous feedback fuels our desire to push the boundaries of browser innovation. We have great ambitions to continually improve and evolve Flock, and hope that we can continue to count on your passionate engagement to help us guide our course.
I welcome your comments and feedback – either here or via email (shawn at flock.com).
Thanks,
Shawn
Blogged with Flock
Tags: flock, 1.0, social, browser, release
End Of Life for Flock 0.7 (aka Cardinal)
Hi Folks,
As is customary with most software products when a new version is released, the older versions get phased out. Now that Flock has released 0.9 (with much fanfare) and we're now well on our way to releasing 1.0 (aka Falcon), it is time to retire 0.7 (aka Cardinal). We plan to officially end support this month.
By retiring 0.7, Flock will no longer make maintenance or security patches available for this version. This is really for two reasons. First, we’re aggressively focusing our collective brainpower by pushing towards the completion of our 1.0 release. Secondly, our 0.7 version is based on an older, unsupported version of Firefox (1.5), so as with all good things, it’s time for us to focus our efforts against continuing to deliver great innovative features in our latest releases.
We strongly encourage you to download the latest 0.9 version of Flock here.
All of your stored Favorites, Media Streams, Account log-in credentials, and history will be automatically transferred during this upgrade process.
In the next couple of days you'll be getting an automatic upgrade notice where you'll have the option to upgrade to the latest version of 0.9. We strongly encourage you to upgrade to the latest version so that you can take advantage of all the latest feature enhancements.
Click here for a chart comparing all of the feature improvements between Flock 0.7 and 0.9.
We have greatly improved the usability of our latest version. The feedback from our users has been overwhelmingly positive.
We’re working hard to continually delight you with great new features in the latest 0.9 release of Flock. We greatly value your feedback hope that you’ll continue to provide your extremely valuable comments to us by submitting them at at http://www.flock.com/feedback. We read every item that comes in and are constantly making fixes and improvements based on your feedback.
For all those folks who've been with us since Flock’s 0.7 release and before, we thank you for your loyalty, and hope that you’ll remain with us for the next releases. We’re on a roll!
Thx,
Mike
Blogged with Flock
Tags: flock, browser, cardinal, falcon
Community Office Hours moved to 2pm today
Hey Flockstars,
My Community Office Hours for today have been moved to 2pm, as I'll be attending an engineering check-in regarding our 1.0 build this morning. What I've seen so far is very exciting and I expect that this meeting will be more of the same. Our team has been working incredibly hard and this is one of the tightest pre-QA builds we've ever had. More news to come soon!
If you can't make it to Community Office Hours at 2pm, please remember that you're always welcome to email me at the address below or try to catch me on the services mentioned on my bio.
Looking forward to speaking to you all today!
Flock'n'roll,
Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
Blogged with Flock
Tags: Flock, Community Office Hours, Community, Evan Hamilton, Flock 1.0, Flockstars