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  • Wednesday, May 7, 2008
  • By Tim Barribeau

Drag and drop: Flock allows users to drag media between networks to enable easy sharing.
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A central theme running through all the utilities in Flock is the ability to share information with friends. In order to facilitate this, Flock employs a clipboard system that allows users to drag images, files, and website links onto a clipboard, and then share them with their friends through any of their social sites and supported Web-mail sites.

However, there are a couple of obvious limits to Flock's abilities. Primarily, there is no support for MySpace or Bebo, two of the largest social networks, or for any instant-messaging clients. Hardin says that MySpace integration will be coming "in the next few months . . . It will definitely be out by Q3." Instant-messaging support is also in the works.

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dottavi

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  • 1378 Days Ago
  • 05/07/2008

"New" what???

Actually, reading on here a description of Flock as "new" is quite disappointing - here's my review of the browser, wrote a couple of years ago: http://tinyurl.com/5qmshe

Smart project, but very very uncertain future

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fineartdavid

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  • 1259 Days Ago
  • 09/03/2008

Re: "New" what???

Version 1.0 was released in November 2007, but the beta version was available a long time before that.

I'm not sure why you say it has an uncertain future. They secured another $15 million in their last funding round in May 2008.

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/flock

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