Flock, “the social web browser”, got a lot of attention (or hype) when the web 2.0 term was starting to get traction. The most recent release is 0.7.8 so it is still in beta.

I haven’t had a look at Flock until now and my first reaction is very positive. It somehow feels like so much more than a browser. Apart from its super slick branding on every front (although even the Flock team can’t make a myspace page look good) the browser seems to bring “the web as a platform” one step closer.

When a MySql developer was once asked about innovation he answered that it was easy, Oracle’s feature list was MySql’s to-do list. It’s easy to innovate when your catching up.

Opera is no longer the only Oracle of the web experience. Now, Flock and Opera will give the preview of what will be included next in Mozilla’s Firefox and Microsoft’s Explorer.

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