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Flock (web browser)

Flock was a web browser that specialized in providing social networking and Web 2.0 facilities built into its user interface. Earlier versions of Flock used the Gecko HTML rendering engine by Mozilla. Version 2.6.2, released in July 2010, was the last version based on Mozilla Firefox. Starting with version 3, Flock was based on Chromium and so used the Webkit rendering engine. Flock was available as a free download, and supported Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X platforms (previously also Linux).

Support for Flock was discontinued in April 2011. A year later in April 2012 the old Flock website was back and carried a vague indication that the project might be resurrected, inviting readers to add themselves to a mailing list to receive future news.

History

Flock was the successor to Round Two, who raised money from Bessemer Venture Partners, Catamount Ventures, Shasta Ventures and other angel investors. Bart Decrem and Geoffrey Arone co-founded the company. Flock raised $15 million in a fourth round of funding led by Fidelity Ventures on May 22, 2008, for an estimated total of $30 million, according to CNET. The company's previous investors, Bessemer Venture Partners, Catamount Ventures, and Shasta Ventures, also participated in the round.

In January 2011, Flock Inc. was acquired by Zynga The browser has been discontinued, with support ending April 26, 2011.

In April 2012, a page appeared on flock.com with a quote from Mark Twain stating "The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated," and provided a signup form where users could enter their email to receive "updates".

Features

Flock 2.5 integrated social networking and media services including My Space, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger, Gmail, Yahoo Mail!, etc.When logging into any of the supported social services, Flock can track updates from friends: profiles, uploaded photos, and more. Flock's latest 2.5 version added Twitter Search functionality, multi-casting of status updates to multiple services, and the introduction of instant messaging via Facebook Chat in the browser.

Other features include:

·                    Native sharing of text, links, photos and videos

·                    A "Media Bar" showing preview of online videos and photos as well as subscription to photo and video feeds^.

·                    A feed reader supporting Atom, RSS, and Media RSS feeds

·                    A blog editor and reader, allowing direct posting into any designated blog

·                    A Webkit-mail component allowing users to check supported web-based email off   site, compose new messages, and drag-and-drop pictures and videos from the "Media Bar" or webclipboard into a new email message^[21]

·                    Support for third-party add-ons, including a number of Firefox extensions

Sumber : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_(web_browser)

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