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Flock social web browser adds Digg, Pownce, and AOL Mail

downloadsquad.com — Flock, the social web browser built from Firefox code keeps getting more social. Flock 1.2 beta adds Digg, Pownce, and AOL Mail integration. Once you login to Digg for the first time from the Flock browser, you'll have the option of opening up a Digg sidebar which shows you all of your Digg contacts and their recent activity.

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  • rlray216, on 05/14/2008, -17/+8I'll use this!
    • madeingermany, on 05/14/2008, -3/+10I won't - I tried it out a few months back and it kept crashing and ate a tone of memory. It gave me nothing that I can't easily add to Firefox with an extension.

      I'll check it out again, once it is based on FF3.
    • synystar, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4Testing it now and I have to say it's much better than I expected from previous experiences. Love the new features especially the addition of DIgg.
  • k00pa, on 05/14/2008, -15/+7Awesome! It will have everything I need.
  • bjornski, on 05/14/2008, -15/+10I think I just may have to try this out....
    • bjornski, on 05/14/2008, -2/+6Playing with it now, and it looks really cool. I don't know some of it's real strengths yet, but I'll certainly play with it for a while. I didn't see anything about an ad-blocker, but I run Ad Muncher anyway, I don't care.

      Very cool, I'll play with this for quite a while.
    • bjornski, on 05/14/2008, -3/+4WHOA. Wait!

      No Digg-ratings extender. Believe it or not, but that's a make-or-break deal for me. (and open comments fully expanded).

      If I can work those into this browser, I'll use it. But without those, nope.
      • EvanHamilton, on 05/14/2008, -1/+5Hey bjornski, what do you mean by Digg-ratings extender? We can look into adding that functionality...

        Evan Hamilton
        Flock Community Ambassador
        evan at flock dot com
    • bjornski, on 05/14/2008, -2/+4Bah. It looks like a neat program, but until it can run Greasemonkey and some of the additional scripts I use on a daily basis, I'll have to pas.

      It's neat though.
      • funkytaco, on 05/14/2008, -0/+7dot dot dot "Greasemonkey is available for Firefox, Flock and Epiphany."
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasemonkey
        • bjornski, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2Neat, ok thanks. I'll try setting that up. If it can do a few of my extensions, I'll re-install it.

          Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't see any reference to it on the Flock site.
  • WhatInThe42o, on 05/14/2008, -15/+54Buried for including anything involved with AOL.
    • tedhead2k, on 05/14/2008, -3/+11How childish of you.
      • Lazydriver, on 05/14/2008, -4/+1Not really, considering AOL giving out trials that scammed people out of cold hard cash.
    • iSamurai, on 05/15/2008, -2/+5So you bury all of the massive amount of Weblogs, Inc. content too, I assume...
    • mewoot10, on 05/15/2008, -2/+2If everyone had that kind of mentality where would we be today?
    • angrykeyboarder, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1Grow up.
    • supertommy90, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1I hope they mean the messenger
  • GregFD3S, on 05/14/2008, -19/+3I was working with the development team.

    www.sabiadesign.com
  • birkoph, on 05/14/2008, -12/+19Lame... think about it.
  • fakekevinrose, on 05/14/2008, -11/+14I'll give it a try, why not
    • bjornski, on 05/14/2008, -3/+8What have you got to lose?

      I'm using it right now, and I'm actually liking it quite a bit.
  • jerrycurley, on 05/14/2008, -13/+15this will sure make 7 people happy.
    • digitallysick, on 05/15/2008, -3/+6I make your mom happy
      • jerrycurley, on 05/15/2008, -1/+0Nothing I could ever say to that will prove to the world that you are 12 years old more than your own comment did.
      • Atomic1fire, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1And thats why they call him digitallysick
        wait, He calls himself that but the mental ward had to agree.
  • moolcool, on 05/14/2008, -8/+20Old news combines fail with digg and social networking
    • angrykeyboarder, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1Dig *is* social networking..
  • purplesawdust, on 05/14/2008, -6/+6Why AOL Mail?
    • quaelin, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3Well, a lot of people use it!
    • Justice101, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Even special people need a good internet browser, you can't just ignore them; it's just not right.
      • angrykeyboarder, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1AOL is web-based now anyway (and free).
  • kweee, on 05/14/2008, -8/+37Pownce is still around?
    • priegog, on 05/14/2008, -7/+3I was thinking "this flock thing is still alive?"
      But yeah, since KEvin Rose himself started using twitter I don't think that many people really use pownce; or rather find it useful.
      We don't buy the whole social/bussines needs for your site Kevin!
      • angrykeyboarder, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1I much prefer Pownce to Twitter. If only it came out first...
  • joltcola, on 05/14/2008, -11/+7poop...just packaged poop.
  • NeatStuffLooker, on 05/14/2008, -10/+6He's not exactly squirming - in fact, it's about the best measured answer he's been able to give for jumping into Iraq.
  • jordankasteler, on 05/14/2008, -4/+4Not working for me
    • EvanHamilton, on 05/14/2008, -0/+8Hey Jordan, what seems to be the issue? We'll try to clear it up.

      Evan Hamilton
      Flock Community Ambassador
      evan at flock dot com
  • usrlocalbin, on 05/14/2008, -6/+23AOL mail?
    1998 is calling and wants their email back..
    • bjornski, on 05/14/2008, -2/+8Free-mail is free-mail, I don't care.

      And yes, I'm sure NOBODY uses AIM or anything anymore where an AOL mail account might come with it.

      If you're "too good" to use it, then fine, don't use it. But I do understand how it could be useful and welcome to many people.

      Get that stick out of your ass.
      • AppleGeorge, on 05/14/2008, -1/+8I have numerous free AOL Email accounts. They're useful, and far more better than Yahoo and Hotmail, but I know how cool it is to hate on AOL.
        • Atomic1fire, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3Aol has unlimited storage
          Now if only it was hackable like gmail
        • madeingermany, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3A colleague of mine just got his yahoo email address killed by yahoo and they refused to tell him why. Don't go there.
          • bjornski, on 05/15/2008, -1/+1My Yahoo e-mail account does nothing but collect spam. I have some old crap that goes there, but haven't bothered to close it. Their spam filters truly suck though.

            I have the best luck with the Hotmail filters (better than gMail for me).
  • AHHHHH, on 05/14/2008, -6/+14Flock, the web 2.0 cliche of Firefox.
  • dyl8n, on 05/14/2008, -2/+7but loses Facebook.
    • EvanHamilton, on 05/14/2008, -0/+12Facebook made some changes on their end that broke the sidebar. We've fixed this in Flock 1.1.4, which you can get from http://www.flock.com. Auto-updates will go out later today.

      Evan Hamilton
      Flock Community Ambassador
      evan at flock dot com
      • titlesaysitall, on 05/14/2008, -7/+2Thank you Mr. Ambassador, your contributions to our decisions on foreign policy have been noted.
  • skunks, on 05/14/2008, -11/+3Flock is still in beta? And meanwhile, you can get all this functionality through Firefox extensions... Buried as irrelevant web 2.0 over-hyped dinosaur.
    • crazzyman828, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4they are working on a fix right now
    • littlematt, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1The story clearly says Flock 1.2 is in beta. Firefox and IE are both in beta too, Fx3 and IE8 respectively.

      disclaimer: I work for Flock
  • unionaire, on 05/14/2008, -1/+6does it support all firefox plugins? if so I'll try it.
    • crazzyman828, on 05/14/2008, -0/+4most of them
      • int19h, on 05/15/2008, -1/+1"most of them" is not an answer to the question, unless you mean "no"
    • littlematt, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1All Fx add-ons? No.
      "A large majority"? Yes.
  • SquareEnix, on 05/14/2008, -1/+14i already use flock, this would be a very welcome update.
    • halogoggles, on 05/14/2008, -0/+7Agreed. I don't get the Flock hate going on..
      Digg is understandable and perfect but Pownce and AOL Maill are a bit out of left field.
      • rasterbator, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5The Flock hate must stem from PC users having to deal with Internet Explorer 7. I know Mac and Linux users like the product. PC users just want everyone else to be as miserable as they are.
  • spect3r, on 05/14/2008, -2/+9Pretty soon I will have Social Media Cheerios for breakfast
    • baconz, on 06/04/2008, -0/+1I hope you have enough for all your friends!
  • ravi7791, on 05/14/2008, -3/+6I don't like digg getting so popular that my friends know about it. :(
  • ihazstatus, on 05/14/2008, -7/+2spam
  • thegreatanti, on 05/14/2008, -8/+3[Opera Police mode on]

    But Opera is still better!

    [/Opera Police mode off]
  • robthom, on 05/14/2008, -2/+2Oooh, dugg for aol!
  • Stomper622, on 05/14/2008, -3/+1Pownce. LOL
  • ElBeh, on 05/14/2008, -3/+4That's cool and all, but I'll stick with FF3B5, thanks.
    • EvanHamilton, on 05/15/2008, -0/+10Hey ElBeh, Flock is working on our next version right now, which will be based on the Firefox3 codebase. Expect it later this year.

      Evan Hamilton
      Flock Community Ambassador
      evan at flock dot com
      • ElBeh, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4Wow, that sounds great! I'll still stay with FF (social networking isn't the primary point of my internet use), but there's nothing like healthy competition! I'll also inform my girlfriend, who uses Flock, about this. Thanks!
      • TigersRock, on 05/15/2008, -0/+2Hey Evan that's awesome, been using flock as my default browser for a while now, keep on the good work!
  • requiem4dissent, on 05/15/2008, -6/+2Dug down. There's a reason the web works, and site-specific clients aren't it.
    • Gradies, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1The web works because the client and web developers both push the capabilities of processing, storage, and bandwidth. Rendering web pages and corking security holes in an open source platform is what Firefox does best. Its up to companies like Flock to use that platform to advance the possibilities of the client for the web developers to use. Flock's RSS reader is constantly able to display more RSS feeds as developers adopt the standard. Does that make it site-specific? No. Neither does Flock's previously existing people sidebar and mediabar now displaying my friend's Digg activity and allowing me to browse Digg stories. Flock is adding capabilities to the client, and thats something I want to support because its about time.
  • MarkusGarvey, on 05/15/2008, -3/+1adblock doesn't seem to work in it....i will use it if it has adblock..
    • matthewdolman, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1adblock works fine for me in 1.1.2
  • sg7791, on 05/15/2008, -4/+7Oh awesome. It's exactly like Firefox, but slower. And it breaks after about a week.
  • say592, on 05/15/2008, -0/+7Ive been using Flock since about version 0.6.

    I love it, and I have only loved it more as they have added more services. I have had some unique issues with the browser, and have gotten to work alot with with Ethan, Mike, and the rest of the gang, and have mentioned several times that they need to get Digg and Pownce in there.

    Im sure I wasnt the only one, but Im so glad they finally did!
    • rasterbator, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4Ditto. And I created the Flock buttons, which were originally credited to someone else. Evan and his team worked with me to figure it all out. Flock is doing everything right with their browser. And honestly, what other browser developer would get on Digg and respond to the comments on Digg? That is why I am a loyal Flock user. Great job, Evan.
  • webaddict, on 05/15/2008, -2/+2It's about time they added Digg! I like Flock but don't use it as my full-time browser. The winner is still Firefox for all the plug-ins etc.
    • EvanHamilton, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4Hey webaddict, most Firefox extensions will actually work in Flock. Just give them a try!

      Evan Hamilton
      Flock Community AMbassador
      evan at flock dot com
  • mayonaize, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3Love Flock. Love Digg. Win as far as I'm concerned.
  • kamahl928, on 05/15/2008, -0/+0Digg is good :)

    no Opensocial yet???
    • littlematt, on 05/16/2008, -0/+0Flock's My World page was architected to support widgets such as OpenSocial widgets in a future release.

      That said, much of OpenSocial's functionality is designed for website-to-website communication, where you want your Twitter status posted on Pownce, or your Digg habits posted in your Facebook Mini-Feed.

      Flock will take advantage of sites that expose their data via OpenSocial calls when sites do so, but much of OpenSocial involves getting around cross-domain restrictions and other issues Flock, acting as the user itself, just doesn't have.

      Flock continues to support services with solid APIs such as Digg and Pownce. In fact in the process of adding Pownce support we worked with them to help make their API more robust. Sites without solid APIs (such as MySpace's nascent but developing API) are very difficult to integrate in a fashion that isn't broken more than it's working. We do work with the various social networks to help them develop their APIs where we see ways we can help. We (Evan) also maintains lists of various service requests. When a site is requested by many users, has a solid API, and fits well into the interfaces in Flock, we can then attempt an integration.

      So I guess my point is that "OpenSocial" is not some magic pixie dust that you can sprinkle on Flock and make wonderful things happen. It's a great step forward in standardizing API calls across services, preventing us from having to reinvent the wheel all the time, but it isn't implemented by nearly as many services as have claimed to support it, and it isn't truly built for the kind of fat client -> web service integration Flock has.
  • int19h, on 05/15/2008, -1/+1The problem with Flock is that they bind themselves to certain specific websites, without allowing people to make website-integration-plugins easily themselves. (Yes, it's open source, but still). And, the commercial connection to Yahoo really shines through, in a bad way. Try for instance changing the search engine to another choice, sooner or later you'll still end up at Yahoo Search...
    • froek, on 05/15/2008, -1/+2Flock has the same extension mechanism that Firefox has. There are no "bindings" that lock you in to certain sites. If you have a particular site that you want to integrate with, there are lots of ways of getting that site into the Flock browser, integrated with the Mediabar, People Sidebar, etc. The interfaces for extending Flock in the social respect are there.
    • littlematt, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1Buried as inaccurate:
      1. Industrious developers can write extensions for Flock (in the same fashion and syntax as Firefox extensions) to add support for whatever service they want. Flock's code review process also provides an avenue to including those new service integrations in the shipping product, if that's what the original author wants. Interfaces are available at doxygen.flock.com and developer help is available in channel #flock-dev on irc.flock.com.

      1.5. If you're not a coder-type but really want an integration with a particular service, after you send your requests to evan @ flock . com you may also want to poke that service. If they want to write a service integration for Flock, Flock devs would be happy to help and provide information.

      2. If you switch your search engine from Yahoo to any of the others, Flock respects that preference. I switch mine to Google as one of the first things I do, and it sticks. There's two places to make the switch: one in Preferences > Searching, and one in My World, but those choices stick. If they truly don't, it's a bug, and one we would seriously want to fix. There's nothing nefarious or shady going on here. I prefer Google over Yahoo too, even though it's the $ from the Yahoo deal that pays my paycheck.

      Disclaimer: I work for Flock.

      • int19h, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1I could still guess that you got money from Yahoo only by trying Flock. That shows that the commercial connection shines through too much.
  • KJHM, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4I use Flock and its great for Facebook, Twitter, rss and gmail :) all very nice in the sidebar.
  • jbcbirder, on 05/15/2008, -0/+3Flock Rocks
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  • angrykeyboarder, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1Flock is cool. I have in installed, but I still prefer Firefox.

    Nice to see Kevie's stuff added.
  • lemonpies, on 05/19/2008, -1/+1What I want to know is - is it going to crash more or less often then my current browser which is IE7 ?
    • quaelin, on 05/20/2008, -0/+0In general, Flock is very stable. But as to how often it will crash on your particular machine... harder to say. Why not give it a try and let us know! :)

      (I work for Flock.)
  • enterneo, on 05/22/2008, -1/+1still not learned
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