Flock is one of those things that I actually discovered months ago and thought… “hey, cool…that’s different!” …downloaded it… installed it… then just a few minutes ago, finally started really taking a look under the hood. I owe it all to Veronica Belmont of Mahalo Daily…she inspired me with the video below…to take a closer look…at Flock, that is:)

An open source browser that innovates on the Mozilla architecture, Flock was built on the idea that people use the Web in very different ways than they did ten years ago. Self billed as “The Social Web Browser”, Flock was the winner of Mashable’s 2007 Open Web Awards for “Judge’s Choice for Applications and Widgets”.  CNET also calls “Flock One of the Top Web 2.0 Hits of 2007“…and Webware even created: A Newbie’s Guide to Flock. On the other hand, one reviewer from FastCompany.com described Flock as having “too damn much going on…a frenetic window full of potential distractors.”

What can I say besides “Different strokes. . .”, “One man’s junk. . .”, and now. . . “What the Flock?”

Flock has picked up some steam lately, with a new version that’s more stable than before, and is filled with tons of social networking goodies. We headed over to their HQ to find out what makes this browser so different (and fun).

Tags: Flock, Mozilla, Firefox