Suddenly our website is live, and behold – it is linking to one ofmy 3 WordPress accounts courtesy of Matt. Hello World.
A quick Introduction – my name is Anthony Young, and I amFlock’s lead developer and product manager. I wanted to write a post togivesome visibility into what exactly we are doing in the trenches here atthe Flock Garage.
Today, we have released a pre-preview version of our Web Browser -yes, it is rough around the edges (thanks to all of you brave folks whohave tried it out!), but our ears have been open to our brave users.
For the next week, we will be working hard to address the mostpressing issues with our early release.? So, sometime next week expecta sparkly new .5 Preview Release – which will include many bug fixes,as well as a few more important features:
- Syncing your collections to del.icio.us – so that you can accessthem from anywhere
- Support for LiveJournal and whatever other services we can testbetween now and next week
- Importing of bookmarks from Firefox
Beyond this next release, we have a lot of cool plans in store -I’ll update with an outline of this Road Map in the near future:)
October 21, 2005 at 8:24 am |
[...] E’ stata pubblicata una mini roadmap per la versione 0.5 di Flock, tra le novità la sincronizzazione dei bookmark di Firefox ed il supporto per Livejournal. [...]
October 21, 2005 at 10:07 am |
Hi. When i publish a blog the whole formatting is lost. Italicized word dont appear italicized. I think this a problem. I tried it a couple of times. But didn’t work. Neway congratulations on your realese today.
October 21, 2005 at 10:08 am |
[...] One thing which is clearly missing is importing bookmarks from firefox. I am a firefox user and I could not figure out any other way to import my firefox bookmarks. Again this is featured in the todo list of a developer’s blog. So no worries there. I can expect this feature ready by maybe next week. [...]
October 21, 2005 at 1:52 pm |
Flock Browser 5 Minute Review
I’m just playing with the Flock developer preview, and have exactly 5 minutes to look at it and knock out some thoughts.
It’s firefox with extras.
Bookmarks are gone; hello integration with online bookmarks. This is a good thing. It …
October 21, 2005 at 2:17 pm |
I should have figured you were behind this! I’m loving what I see so far, and can’t wait to see how it goes!
October 21, 2005 at 7:37 pm |
So far so good! I’m liking this browser, keep up the good work!
October 21, 2005 at 9:31 pm |
Flock is looking good. No glaring issues. On my PowerMac G5/Tiger, Flock imported all my bookmarks from Firefox. Have set up most of the bells and whistles. Am very pleased. I did notice some disappearing text as I worked on a wordpress post within Flock. When I saved the post, the slug was there but the text had gone. Tried the same in Firefox and it worked fine. Hopes this helps. Keep up the good work
Jerry D
October 21, 2005 at 9:32 pm |
Awesome browser. I can’t wait until full fledged functionality. Keep up the great work…
October 21, 2005 at 10:24 pm |
Any chance for Textpattern ( http://textpattern.com ) support?
Besides that, I must say flock has some really neat features.
October 21, 2005 at 10:44 pm |
Flock is awesome, and so far no bugs besides the minor ones.
I would like a way view bookmarks (or collections/tags) without opening another tab. A Topbar would be good for this, but the inclusion of a standard menu would be useful.
Great work, can’t wait for the final release
October 21, 2005 at 11:41 pm |
Wonderful job so far, thumbs up from a *nix user.
October 22, 2005 at 1:49 am |
TOTALLY dig the blog and del.icio.us integration. Love the interface too(of the app and associated website).
Flock rocks.
October 22, 2005 at 2:54 am |
Looking good! I like Flock so far…
It seems to be missing the sidebar. I like the topbar but the sidebar was nice too! Think about bringing that back in a future release! Besides the sidebar and the lack of firefox style bookmarks, I say good job!
October 22, 2005 at 5:59 am |
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October 22, 2005 at 7:23 am |
Thanks so much for all the feedback – after all the stuff that rolled into this release, I find myself at home sick on a Friday night! But not too bad, will hack a bit to see if I can try to resolve some of the blog issues mentioned above. (Cough!)
October 22, 2005 at 7:51 am |
For a beta you folks have done a mighty good job! I Like the WordPress too! Still looking around, playing with this and that (like the shelf) and getting comfortable with it. Thank you! //bob
October 22, 2005 at 11:26 am |
[...] tonyland » Blog Archive » To Come – Flock Road Map [...]
October 22, 2005 at 11:34 am |
r u guys planning to go public?
October 22, 2005 at 1:10 pm |
Looks good so far!
Are you guys planning on including support for ExpressionEngine?
October 22, 2005 at 7:42 pm |
Preferences window on MacOS X have random vertical sizes.
October 22, 2005 at 7:43 pm |
It wasn’t on our initial list – but let me check it out and get back to you…
October 22, 2005 at 11:54 pm |
your project looks more than promising – I just hope you folks keep up the pace !
October 23, 2005 at 3:53 am |
nice work guys… lovin’ that style
October 23, 2005 at 8:56 am |
brice – weird! I think that’s come up before, some nugget of xul tripping out the layout. Should be fix by our next release this week.
October 23, 2005 at 2:31 pm |
Would greatly desire Nucleus support. (http://nucleuscms.org) Nucleus supports Blogger, MovableType and MetaWebLog APIs, but for some reason publishing to my Nucleus blog using any of these APIs simply doesn’t work.
October 23, 2005 at 11:21 pm |
Sounds great!
Flock truly has tons of potential. I look forward to testing future releases.
Cheers.
October 24, 2005 at 1:03 am |
Been loving Flock so far. I’m not using it as my main browser, but I can’t wait until you launch a 1.0 version!
Keep Flocking.
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October 24, 2005 at 5:08 am |
I will check your stuff out today, if you are faster than firefox or the standard mozilla suite, you will be added to my package list.
Keep it fast .. And if you have to add more features … still keep it fast … i “have had it to the neck” what firefox did to original phoenix code … phoenix was fast as lightning, and now firefox crawls around like an old lady …
October 24, 2005 at 5:09 am |
almost forget smth. plz dont hardlink to gnome or kde, there libraries are a huge minus for your browser if they users are using gentoo and other source based distros.
October 24, 2005 at 6:24 am |
Flock is fantastic, it is so welcome by all the bloggers. I can see the word ‘Flock’ anywhere now.
October 24, 2005 at 7:42 am |
Just downloaded flock and was pleasantly surprised to find the clean interface and cool looks and functionality.
I wanted to explore if it is possible to write a smalls script to import firefox bookmarks – something that more advanced users or developers could run to do the migration. That will make it easier for existing firefox users to adopt flock and give it a try.
I would willing to help out on this!
October 24, 2005 at 7:59 am |
Going to try this out. Why can’t all this be done with Firefox extensions?
October 24, 2005 at 3:09 pm |
I really like Flock but there are also some things I don’t like which I think should be fixed/added in one of the next builds. I took the chance that Flock gave me, registered for a wordpress blog and posted my thoughts. Check them out please, and let me know what you think:
http://stargazer.wordpress.com/2005/10/24/what-i-would-like-to-see-in-the-next-build-of-flock/
October 24, 2005 at 5:42 pm |
I did some stuff with Firefox-Candidate1. I found the stickiness great. Is there any plans for a FlockMobile Candidate ??.
I have NOT yet to download current beta.
October 24, 2005 at 9:33 pm |
Re: http://stargazer.wordpress.com/2005/10/24/what-i-would-like-to-see-in-the-next-build-of-flock/
Stargazer – thanks for your thoughtful comments. On your first point, it actually is possible to have your favorites exist only locally. But point taken, there are still some confusing aspects about the local/web favorites paradigm.
On categories – many have complained that it is highly inconvenient that this feature is not present – look for a first cut of category support later this week.
I’ll add point 3 into our bug tracking system. Thanks again!
October 24, 2005 at 10:51 pm |
I installed Flock on my PowerBook G4 running Tiger, looks great but it crashes all the time and is unusable, I am hoping it will start getting better too as it gets closer to version 1.0.
October 25, 2005 at 11:37 pm |
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October 26, 2005 at 1:50 am |
Hi, I have been using your browser now for about 3 days. So far so good. No crashes on my pc. I am using WinXP Home, SP2 all updates. Athalon 2600 plus DDR 3300 etc, etc, etc. Using the No Script, and Ad Block plug ins and they work good. Would like to see you incorporate the “Dr. Web Link Checker” plugin that I use with I.E, Firefox, and Mozilla. Would be a nice addtion to what I believe is a great browser that you have in the works. Keep up the good work and I’ll keep using “Flock”. Cheers.
October 26, 2005 at 7:43 am |
Seems pretty good. 0.4.8 has been very stable on my well specced XPsp2 laptop.
The bloody user managed to delete a load of blog entries without really trying though – maybe there should be a 2 stage system incorporating a checkbox and a delete checked items button.
Well done guys!
October 26, 2005 at 10:35 pm |
Dude. Fix your spacebar.
October 27, 2005 at 10:24 pm |
You should consider making a portable version (one that runs off of a thumb drive), when flock is complete.
October 28, 2005 at 12:10 am |
Beautiful Work! TRUE Driven Compassion!
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WE give a flock
October 28, 2005 at 6:24 am |
Flock seems to be very similar to Firefox, enhanced with some plugins, such as the “blog it”…
October 29, 2005 at 7:40 pm |
it would be great if you could make the rss feeds so the links go where they are supposed to go, not back to the main page.
October 31, 2005 at 11:49 pm |
hello world flock very nice good easy to use very goodwell done.
November 1, 2005 at 12:49 am |
Hi!
Have you thought about incorporating Avahi (an FLOSS ZeroConf implementation) into Flock? It could make it “more” “social” this way, providing functionality of Safari (as I heard – never seen Safari live
).
Having access to “living” sites directly from browser seems very cool!
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The University of Florida, Florida State University found that physically attractive people almost instantly attract the attention of the interlocutor, sobesednitsy with them, literally, it is difficult to make eye. This conclusion was reached by a series of psychological experiments, which were determined by the people who believe in sending the first seconds after the acquaintance. Here, a curious feature: single, unmarried experimental preferred to look at the guys, beauty opposite sex, and family, people most often by representatives of their sex.
The authors believe that this feature developed a behavior as a result of the evolution: a man trying to find a decent pair to acquire offspring. If this is resolved, he wondered potential rivals. Detailed information about this magazine will be published Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
In turn, a joint study of the Rockefeller University, Rockefeller University and Duke University, Duke University in North Carolina revealed that women are perceived differently by men smell. During experiments studied the perception of women one of the ingredients of male pheromone-androstenona smell, which is contained in urine or sweat.
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