The key idea in flock (to me) is simplicity. I work with a lot of
faculty and students who would do well to take advantage of the
affordances of social software like del.icio.us and flickr. And while
they do so, most do so only to a minimal level.
I think we in the geek crowd tend to forget how
While working on a prototype social placemarking (~ spatial annotation, Up My Street, et al) service we had a lot of user stories crop up where you would want tight integration with Flickr, del and the others. We tried solving it through plug-ins, bookmarklets and so on but it got incredibly
>From the slashdot-just-needs-to-be-promoted dept.| Flock, the New Browser on the Block|| from the too-many-choices dept. || posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday October 05, @17:04 (Software|
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/05/1817248This /. story
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From: Jeremy Dunck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Oct 6, 2005 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: [delicious-discuss] Flock, the New Browser on the Block,
integrating del.icio.us
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On 10/6/05, Matthew Weymar [EMAIL PROTECTED
I can't point at any figures indicating whether or not the browser market is maturing or fragmenting. But a common rendering engine that displays sites decently and other features made specifically for a group of users is a much better way to get your user base going.
But you need to have those
Frankly, I don't understand why. I mean, how many people use
del.icio.ushttp://del.icio.ustoday vs. what's the size of Flock's
target market?... And how hard is it to
clone del.icio.us?. http://del.icio.us?...
Both not-hard and hard. Several people have cloned the functionality, but
it's hard
On 10/6/05, Clay Shirky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And how hard is it to clone del.icio.us?Both not-hard and hard. Several people have cloned the functionality, butit's hard to clone positive returns to scale.
Right. Understood. I would've thought it would've made sense for these folks to roll
On 10/7/05, Matthew Weymar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This seems to cast even more doubt on Flock. Why won't FF, e.g., be able to
do whatever Flock does via extensions?... If you can take del and Flickr,
etc. with you wherever you go, what's to keep you with Flock when it fails
you in this way
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