"The Flock team joined Zynga in January, 2011 and is now working to assist Zynga in achieving their goal of building the most fun, social games available to anyone, anytime -- on any platform."
Sorry to hear this, but I think that the customized browser is basically DOA. It's hard enough to get people to update their main browser as it is. Better to build whatever you have in mind within a conventional browser.
Even though most may disagree: Am I the only one who doesn't shed any tears over this news?<p>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.
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).
Sad but I am not surprised. Its incremental value was always questionable and I never understood why they thought they could build a successful browser based on niche features that only a tiny segment of the online population would want. It would be interesting to see what happens to RockMelt.
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.
Interesting how they list Google Chrome before Mozilla Firefox (left to right). Did Mozilla do anything to piss off Flock?<p>Edit: Nevermind. I didn't realize that Flock 3.0 moved to webkit.
It was fun working on flock. I still work with many of the guys I met there.<p>"Wanted to destroy something beautiful" - <a href="http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2005/12/29/wanted-to-destroy-something-beautiful/" rel="nofollow">http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2005/12/29/wanted-to-destroy-some...</a>
Working on the mozilla source code....worst decision ever. They made chrome from scratch and its already got large number of users without any special feature.