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Re: Flock is dead

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Post by djjose »

Uhhrrr wrote: post #50
generalk wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In all seriousness, what would that tool do? There may be a market for an app that will allow you to consume/manage your Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc, from one central location.

OK. In all seriousness, my personal preference is a tool that would a)let me tag every connection, feed, and post arbitrarily, b)display the most common connections/posts/tags/posts-from-connection-tagged-x easily, c) let me specify tag groupings via drag-and-drop and command-line regex, d) handle all logins without jacking my privacy. I'll pay you zero dollars for it, but I'll let you show me relevant ads on alterna…

I just don't see this as a viable business (big enough market or a market sustainable by charging a large enough margin). It'd probably be a fun project to take on at one of the Hack-Weekend type events.

Re: Flock is dead

#52

Post by kingsley_20 »

Surprised and disappointed that they don't recommend RockMelt to their users. I'm not a huge fan of either, but if they wanted to do right by their users, the least they could do is to point them to the only other social-browsing game in town.

Re: Flock is dead

#53

Post by younata »

MichaelApproved wrote: post #38
younata wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A few years ago, I managed to inherit some laptops that were being thrown out by the company my father was working for at the time. One of them, apparently, used to be used by the CEO, and had Flock installed on it. This was my first introduction to the browser.

The CEO's laptop wasn't wiped clean before being thrown out? What else did you find on that machine?

I didn't really find anything on it. Nothing that could cause the company any damage. I don't really remember because one of the first things I did was to throw Ubuntu on it.

Re: Flock is dead

#54

Post by start123 »

kingsley_20 wrote: post #52

Surprised and disappointed that they don't recommend RockMelt to their users. I'm not a huge fan of either, but if they wanted to do right by their users, the least they could do is to point them to the only other social-browsing game in town.

They recommended a platform rather than an alternative browser. Flock was initially built on Firefox and it later switched to Chrome.

Re: Flock is dead

#55

Post by experimental »

gordonguthrie wrote: post #14
ryanglasgow wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bad. It proves RockMelt doesn't solve a pain-point.

I like RockMelt - I tried Flock but it did nothing for me... Does RockMelt have a business model? dunno. But RockMelt solves the pain of twitter/facebook/linkedin fire hoses (for me)

They collect a lot of personal information and considering Marc Andreessen is on the board of Facebook I won't trust a browser that has questionable practises like Facebook. Regardless there are addons which do what RockMelt does. The UI also is off, even if someone doesn't realise it. It is behind in updates so not good for security reasons.

Re: Flock is dead

#56

Post by codeup »

Even though most may disagree: Am I the only one who doesn't shed any tears over this news?

A dedicated browser for social networking like Flock always seemed superfluous to me. The recommendations of the Flock project point at this: use other free browsers (preferably FF) with the appropriate extensions.

Re: Flock is dead

#57

Post by isani »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #13

I always liked the idea behind Flock but the UI was too cluttered and confusing every time I used it. Definitely too confusing for any regular user to be able to use it effectively (and therefore near impossible for it to ever gain as much traction as the 'big' browsers - even now when social is huge).

I have to agree with you. When it comes to design, Flock was the anti-Chrome: a huge number of sidebars and tiny icons, all screaming "Look at me!"
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