When Flock 0.9 launched it was a pretty big overhaul, and now their next big milestone is Flock 1.0 which currently has a vague release date of Fall 2007. Honestly this is the dream browser for any heavy social network user out there, and hopefully they'll pursue more of the less tech savvy people who use MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube
Flock’s first public release was back in October of 2005, and now nearly two-years later it is becoming a feature-packed social browser with no "stable" version in sight. Version 0.9 was officially made available early this morning along with a fresh website that guides users through the benefits of using their browser.
So what’s new in version 0.9? Back in May
I just saw a post on the Flock blog today reminding everyone of the test day last week for a pre-release version of Flock 0.8. The point of these test days are to find bugs and problems in Flock before it is released to the public, and it sounds like it should be in final form within a month or so.
Early this year I updated you on what was happening with this
A few days ago Ashley wrote up a post about Flock's upcoming "Cormorant" release (with a ton of screenshots) which will offer a lot of great thing that people love in Firefox 2, including the inline spell checker. Some of Flock's other great features will also have some new things to offer, but from the looks of it their blog editor will continue to be neglected.
The good news is that there are two extensions
Following along with the bird theme, Flock has announced that their code name for the Cardinal successor (Cardinal is the current 0.7.x release) is Cormorant, a medium-to-large seabird. Originally, the next big release was supposed to be Danphe, however they've taken a step back to evaluate where they currently are, and where they'd like to be. They feel they have more work to do on Danphe, so they've
Web Browser Wednesday
As websites continue to become more and more AJAXified I believe that bookmarklets are going to become a larger driving force. Some of you may not be familiar with bookmarklets, so I was trying to think of a good way I could explain them. When I stumbled upon the Wikipedia article I thought it couldn't be said any better:
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