Flock: The ’social’ web browser now with instant messengers
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Flock belongs the next generation of web browser, the ’social’ web browser, to be Web 2.0 accurate. It’s plenty of promises. It can load web pages faster than Mozilla Firefox ― from which it borrows codes and humans resources ―, it integrates photos sharing and weblogging.
But currently, it’s still in beta and doesn’t provide a lot of extensions.
Anyway, there’s already this extension: Meebo plugin, spotted on techcrunch. It will install a sidebar on your Flock web navigator so you can pop up all the Meebo supported instant messenger without even going on your Meebo account.
For the record, Meebo provides a web-based interface where members could launch the most popular instant messengers, Google Talk and Jabber-related IM, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, and AIM.
Meebo is still in beta, so if you don’t mind using a beta extension on a beta web browser to launch an alpha web service, well, you’re ready for Web 2.0.
Jun 28, 2006 | By Nuno
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[…] Download Squad, 21talks and Techcrunch have got all of them some very helpful reviews of how it actually works. And, of course, I had to try it out and, like it has been mentioned already it, it works in exactly the same way as advertised. Quite nicely. With this new extension you would be able to access the IM protocols that Meebo was putting together already: AOL / ICQ, Yahoo, Google Talk / Jabber and MSN, but all of them nicely embedded on a sidebar so that you can continue browsing the Internet without losing eye contact with your buddies. As I said, pretty interesting capability that would certainly make Flock a truly Web 2.0 browser, because with extensions like ChatZilla, we now have the capability of collaborating and sharing knowledge both in real-time having IM and .I.R.C. capabilities and the standard offline capabilities of working with other asynchronous tools, like wikis, weblogs, social bookmarks, photo sharing, etc. etc. […]