^ Van Grove, Jennifer (April 12, 2011).^ "Flock draws $15 million for social browsing".^ Flock Browser - Company Info Archived March 14, 2008, at the Wayback Machine."Support for Flock browsers has been discontinued". "End of the line for Flock social browser". "Top 10 specialty Web browsers you may have missed". ^ a b c Wayner, Peter (October 19, 2010)."Flock Browser Gets Faster, Friendlier With Upgrade". ^ Flock Browser – Built on Mozilla's Firefox Archived March 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.RockMelt, a competing social web browser."Eddy Winner": Flock 2.0 24th Annual Macworld Editors' Choice Awards.Open Web Award for Applications and Widgets, 2007.Webby Award in social networking, 2008.Upon exiting beta, Flock won a number of awards: in your face all of the time is moot: Flock has flocked off and for all its innovation it never quite lived up to its own hype." Awards When Flock's discontinuation was announced in April 2011, reviewer Joey Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! offered the analysis: "Whether this was down to poor implementation design wise (one needs only glance at ' Rockmelt' for an example of a social browser done right) or just general apathy towards having alerts from twitter, flickr, facebook, digg et al. Flock was nominated for this award along with Facebook, Bebo and Ning. In May 2008, Flock won the Social Networking category of the Webby Awards. They also announced "more than 70 percent of Flock users making it their default browser of choice". In March 2008, Flock announced that they had seen "nearly 3 million downloads" and a 135% increase in active users in the first two months of 2008. For the Netscape 8 userbase, AOL recommended only the Flock browser to its users. In February 2008, AOL announced that it would discontinue support for the Netscape browser, and recommended Flock and Firefox as alternative browsers to its userbase of Netscape 9 users. PC World's Harry McCracken reviewed Flock as his "New Favorite Web Browser". ĬNET gave the Mac OS X version of Flock 1.0 the title of "Best Mac Software of 2007". In December 2007, Flock won the Mashable Open Web Awards for Applications and Widgets and in March 2008, Flock won the South By Southwest Web Award for Community. 6 on PC World's list of the 100 best products of 2008
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