Monday, September 19, 2005
ACM News Service:
"'Will Web Users 'Flock' to Social Surfing?'
New Scientist (09/15/05); Biever, Celeste
Bart Decrem, formerly with the Mozilla Foundation, has created Flock, a "social" Web browser designed to make it easier and faster to write, edit, share, and present Web content. He hopes Flock will satisfy the requirements of the "Web 2.0" Web user community with its seamless integration of blogging, photo blogging, and shared bookmark tools. Blogging tools such as Google's Blogger and Six Apart's Movable Type have not greatly eased the posting of content to the Web, and most bloggers are particularly annoyed with photo blogging services' lack of quality and efficiency. The best service currently available is the Flickr Web site, which users log into and download photos, and then transfer the images to their blog; however, TechCrunch editor Mike Arrington says that both the Flickr photo site and the blog site take a long time to log into, while the photos are not always formatted correctly in the blog. Flock partially addresses this problem by allowing photos to be dragged and dropped from Flickr into the blog. In addition, Flock shows users how the blog and the photos pasted into it will appear when published, while the browser's "social bookmarking" feature lets bookmarks be accessed from any PC and shared to create an index of popular bookmarked pages that other users can search. Flock's basic browser capabilities are based on the open-source code for Mozilla's Firefox browser. Flock is slated to be released to the general public next month."
Full article: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8003
"'Will Web Users 'Flock' to Social Surfing?'
New Scientist (09/15/05); Biever, Celeste
Bart Decrem, formerly with the Mozilla Foundation, has created Flock, a "social" Web browser designed to make it easier and faster to write, edit, share, and present Web content. He hopes Flock will satisfy the requirements of the "Web 2.0" Web user community with its seamless integration of blogging, photo blogging, and shared bookmark tools. Blogging tools such as Google's Blogger and Six Apart's Movable Type have not greatly eased the posting of content to the Web, and most bloggers are particularly annoyed with photo blogging services' lack of quality and efficiency. The best service currently available is the Flickr Web site, which users log into and download photos, and then transfer the images to their blog; however, TechCrunch editor Mike Arrington says that both the Flickr photo site and the blog site take a long time to log into, while the photos are not always formatted correctly in the blog. Flock partially addresses this problem by allowing photos to be dragged and dropped from Flickr into the blog. In addition, Flock shows users how the blog and the photos pasted into it will appear when published, while the browser's "social bookmarking" feature lets bookmarks be accessed from any PC and shared to create an index of popular bookmarked pages that other users can search. Flock's basic browser capabilities are based on the open-source code for Mozilla's Firefox browser. Flock is slated to be released to the general public next month."
Full article: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8003
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