9 posts and columns on Flock

News Byte

Delete the Flockers: Social Browser Calls It Quits

in News on April 12, 2011 at 11:51 am PT

Hard to have a product without an engineering team to develop and maintain it. But that’s the situation Flock found itself in this past January when Zynga “acqhired” the bulk of its engineering talent. And so the social browser start-up is shutting down and discontinuing support for Flock browsers as of April 26. “Flock will no longer be actively maintained, which means you can keep using the product, but key features will stop working after 4/26/11 and over time the browser will no longer be secure as software updates and upgrades will no longer be provided,” the company said in an end-of-support FAQ.

Exclusive: Rackspace to Acquire Anso Labs

in Enterprise on February 9, 2011 at 4:05 pm PT

Rackspace acquires a team best known for its work building a computing cloud for NASA.

Zynga "Acqhires" Social Web Browser Maker Flock

in Commerce on January 5, 2011 at 6:13 pm PT

Zynga has acquired Flock, a five-year-old start-up based in Menlo Park, Calif., that was working on developing a Web browser.

Here's a Better Name for RockMelt: The FaceBrowser (Plus BoomTown's Two-Dude Video)

in News on November 8, 2010 at 9:08 am PT

At the end of this video interview with BoomTown about RockMelt–a new social browser that debuted in beta last night–the two founders politely tried to gloss over my calling it a “Facebook browser.” Except, um, it is. Sure, there are Twitter and other news apps present. And I even like the mantra for RockMelt, which “re-imagines the browser around friends, feeds, and sharing.” But that would be–for the most part right now–friends on Facebook, feeds from Facebook and sharing with Facebook.

Seeing All Your Social Networking in One Place

in The Mossberg Solution on July 13, 2010 at 5:58 pm PT

Katie looks at two tools that track all your social networks within your Web browser so you can avoid the hassle of visiting multiple websites or firing up a separate program.
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Using Foxmarks on Different Computers

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on February 11, 2009 at 6:07 pm PT

Walt answers questions about migrating bookmarks using Foxmarks and hardware requirements for the upcoming Windows 7 operating system.

Flock Web Browser Eases Multitasking But Has Drawbacks

in Personal Technology on August 6, 2008 at 6:26 pm PT

Flock, a little-known Web browser, attempts to take the pain out of online multitasking by keeping your social networks, photo sites or news feeds visible at all times. The browser works well, but it isn’t for everyone.
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TechCrunch40 Round Three: Community and Collaboration

in News on September 17, 2007 at 4:44 pm PT

Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski is blogging from TechCrunch40 in San Francisco. Technical difficulties at the conference site prevent him from live-blogging, so he summarized the third session on community and collaboration.