Tag archive: Flock

Social game maker Zynga acquired social Web browser Flock at the beginning of the year. What's it doing now? Shutting it down as of April 26th. Instead, the Flock team will be put to work “to assist Zynga in achieving their goal of building the most fun, social games available to anyone, anytime—on any platform.” Social browser Flock started off based on the Mozilla engine underlying Firefox, with the express purpose… Read More

Flock always aimed to be a Web browser built around social media, providing integrated and easy access to social networking tools and updates while users are browsing the Web. Now, Flock has released a beat of Flock 3—for Windows only, so far—that builds on the browser's social media focus while swapping out the engine under the hood: where previous versions of Flock were build on the Mozilla engine, FLock 3 is based on the… Read More

Version 1.1 of the “social Web browser” Flock has been released, adding new features that enable users to tap into social networking sites and services directly from their browser, rather than having to laboriously log into services and access things individually. Flock 1.1 enables users to monitor friends' activity on supported social networks, access GMail and Yahoo Web-based email, and integrates support for the Picassa… Read More