BusinessWeek: Flock: A New Sort of Browser | Linux Today

BusinessWeek: Flock: A New Sort of Browser

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 5, 2005

“The uptake on Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox open-source browser
seems to be slowing, but a new way of thinking about the Net may
give the alternatives to Microsoft’s dominant Internet Explorer new
momentum. Just now debuting on the Web scene is a newfangled
browser design, Flock, from Flock Inc., an 8-person startup located
in–what else?–a garage across from the Stanford University campus
in Palo Alto. This piece of software is based on Mozilla’s Gecko
rendering engine, which is also the foundation for Firefox, but it
takes browsing deep into the realm of social networking. The target
user: bloggers…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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