| Flock Browser going bye-bye |
| Observations - Teknology |
| Friday, 15 April 2011 15:17 |
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I first heard of Flock a year or so back, when I was looking to offset my social media stuff to another browser than the main one I use for email, writing, and other work related this and that. So I heard about Flock, and thought it would be worth a try. To be honest, I was pretty delighted about the interface, and how the side menu gave my social feeds a nice neat home. But that wasn’t the end of what that sidebar could do. It was home to an access portal for email, a bookmarking tool, a place to write notes, and even a blog post editor for blasting off a quick post. Revolutionary? Well, probably not, but it was definitely a departure from the need to flip through tabs to see what the latest friend update is. I enjoyed using Flock in the fairly short time that it was around, but with other tools out there like RockMelt, I found myself (groan) straying from the flock. The icon started gathering dust in my system tray, and I found myself using it less and less. So I can’t help feel that maybe I am part of the reason why we are seeing Flock go away. Come to think about it, I sort of like the Flock interface better than RockMelt, and they are both Chromium based browsers (Flock wasn’t originally), so both on par with my preferred browser environment, Chrome. So why did I pull away from Flock, when the interface was more to my liking? Who knows. I did read the FAQ, and I do know that Flock was absorbed by gaming juggernaut Zynga, and the Flock dev team is going to be working on great stuff for Zynga, best of luck! As for me and my social networking needs these days? Well, I can be found on twitter @jephfoust and that is just about it. I do still maintain my facebook account, but just don’t use it, unless I need to maintain social media stuff for clients pages. So say good bye to a groundbreaking browser that for a short while helped make social networking a little friendlier. Adios Flock. |
