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StatusPrivately Held
Websiteflock.com
Blogwww.flock.com/blog
CategoryWeb
Address 100 View Street
Suite 100
Mountain View, CA, 94041
USA
Employees40
Founded1/05

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Funding

Total$13.3M
Series A, 1/05 1
Bessemer Venture Partners
Catamount Ventures
Series B, 3/05 2
Bessemer Venture Partners
Catamount Ventures
Series C, 11/05 3
Bessemer Venture Partners
$3.3M
Series D, 6/06 4
Shasta Ventures
$10M

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Flock

Flock is a social web browser based on the open source project Mozilla. It can be called a social browser, because of its tight integration with many social networking and social media services. Changing the purpose of a browser from a non-integrated window into the web to a more participatory portal to you favorite interactive sites, Flock seeks to gain significant market share by bringing your favorite social applications one step closer.

With Flock users can do many community involved activities such as uploading photos directly to Photobucket and Flickr, accessing news aggregation services, or using blogging tools. A full list of social media/networking extensions for Flock can be found here.

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Flock’s presentation at TC40 2007.

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Flock

Websiteflock.com
StageLive
Launch DateAugust 11, 2007
Tags web-browser
Flock screenshot
Above: Flock Screenshot -- #1

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Comments

Eric Herberholz - January 27, 2008 at 1:02am
There of several features that I have found extremely appealing... * Blog Post Editor * Built-in spell checker * Favorites - Local and online favorites. As of version Flock version 0.8.x, integration with online, social bookmarking systems (e.g. de.licio.us) * RSS News Feeds Reader - integrated into the browser. * As Flock is a Mozilla-based browser... o Extensible - As Flock is a Mozilla-based browser, Addons, formerly known as Extensions, can be added that extend the built-in capabilities. Here is a list of My Favorite Add-ons (a.k.a. Extensions). o Personalize - For example, toolbars and buttons can be re-arranged, using View»Toolbars»Customize...", for example. o Search Engine Manager (via Search_Plugins») - As Flock is a Mozilla-based browser, Web sites' searches can be added to the integrated browser search feature.
daN - November 26, 2007 at 8:43pm
I like it,The thing worries me the memory it takes to run.
Omar Upegui Ríos - November 1, 2007 at 11:30pm
I started using Flock 1.0 (Production version) this morning and has crashed twice in less than one hour. This didn't happened with my previous version. I wrote Flock's Devs about this problem. I will continue to use this new version to see if it works as it's supposed to. Normally I use Firefox as my default web browser, but I like the social networking philosophy of Flock.
John Swift - September 18, 2007 at 1:11am
I have been using the various Flock beta's for a few months and it has completely opened up my use of the web. I find myself uploading photos, blogging and generally enjoying the hell out of everything a lot more. I used to use Firefox exclusively, now it's Flock.

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