{"id":220,"date":"2005-10-20T05:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=220"},"modified":"2006-02-03T21:29:03","modified_gmt":"2006-02-04T03:29:03","slug":"will-the-flock-browser-revolutionize-online-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/20\/will-the-flock-browser-revolutionize-online-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Will The Flock Browser Revolutionize Online Communication?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got my hands on a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/\">Mozilla<\/a>-based browser called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flock.com\/\">Flock<\/a> tonight. The Flock browser aims to convert the traditional web browser into a communication and community tool. Adding special functionality to browsers is not new. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/\">Firefox<\/a> uses Extensions to expand functionality, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/\">Opera<\/a> has an integrated email client. What&#8217;s different about Flock is its approach. Instead of adding extensions or clients that enhance only the user&#8217;s Internet experience, they&#8217;ve built in features that enhance the experience of all Internet users.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Flock Address Bar\" src=\"\/blog\/img\/flock-toolbar.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Flock seamlessly keeps track of your favorite websites, and then shares them with the world (currently via <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/\">del.icio.us<\/a>). The social impact of this is that content and popularity is decided democratically, instead of through advertisers, and those who control media outlets. The idea would be that a user could not only contribute to del.icio.us, but also browse and view websites based on certain tags (keywords) and popularity.<\/p>\n<p>The Flock browser also has a built in blog editor that connects to the most popular blogging tools, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/\">Blogger<\/a>. Although the tool isn&#8217;t as seamlessly integrated with the browser as I would like, it has an intuitive and simple interface that makes it easy to post messages to blogs.<\/p>\n<p>It would appear that the Flock team&#8217;s goal is to revolutionize how users interact with the web via the browser. Instead of making the browser a one-way interaction with other websites, they allow the user to contribute to the online community using built-in, easy to use tools. If the Flock team can continue to seamlessly integrate more communication tools into their browser, like VOIP, then Flock may become the <em>de facto<\/em> application used to communicate, share, and contribute on the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my hands on a new Mozilla-based browser called Flock tonight. The Flock browser aims to convert the traditional web browser into a communication and community tool. Adding special functionality to browsers is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyles","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}