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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

New social-networking browser

Move over, Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc., etc., now social networking has its own Web browser. I say "move over" because it's quite possible that very social people will use the Flock browser in addition to one of the above, at least while Flock's still in beta and may not have all the features of "traditional" browsers. Flock makes social networking easier by letting bloggers and profile updaters drag photos into their pages – probably its most attractive feature for social networkers, ZDNET reports (I bet *video* drag 'n' drop is coming). "There is also support for updated picture notification; you can maintain a Friends list of others who use Flickr or PhotoBucket and be notified when their pictures have been updated." ZDNET adds that "Flock also takes on a new approach to searching. When you type a search term, Flock returns results from your bookmarks, your browsing history, and live results" using Yahoo search. "The unique thing here is that Flock contains a built-in search engine that indexes the content of every Web page visited" so you can find that tidbit of info you ran across three days ago but just can't remember what site it was in.

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