Not Another New Browser Story

Earlier today Wired posted about a new browser soon to be on the market called Flock.

Flock is an open-source browser much like Firefox, but has key differences. It advertises itself as a 'social browser' that intergrates popular web services such as Flickr, Technorati and del.icio.us, also featuring WYSIWYG blogging tools, promising to auto-detect all these user accounts automatically. This will obviously make life less tiresome without having to use seperate programs for each thing.

The Flock team insist they aren't attempting to compete with Firefox, hoping to use Flock to draw more people into the social software of Web 2.0.

The fact still remains, however, that Flock could be just another browser attempting to make it's way in an already overflowing market. Will people care enough about a few different features to bother using Flock?

Hopefully we'll find out sometime near the end of this month.

Techcrunch has a beta preview of Flock here.

Categories: Browsers, Firefox, Flock, Internet, Technology