This Valentine's Day, we'd like you to turn your friends on to the browser that helps put people together. Instead of handing off an unoriginal box of chocolates, tell the people you care about to download Flock and you'll be turning them on to a browser that inspires people to stay connected with the friends and things they care about most in their lives.  Take it a step further and offer a personal tutorial to show this person how to get their accounts set up, and voila - you'll find that your Valentine will be impressed and amazed by what a guru you are.

Now you've just turned someone on to a browser that will change the way that they experience the Web, you've impressed them with your knowledge, and you've done it for free. Knowledge is a dangerous thing when you're a bit crafty. We trust you can take it from there.

Thanks for helping to turn people on to Flock! We hope things go well. We're always here to help.

Send us some notes to let us know how things went for you (email: flockteam at flock dot com). We always like to hear about good Flock introductions! We'll be dropping some packages of goodies in the mail to those that make us laugh and cheer the most.

-Cheers

Dan Burkhart
V.P. of Marketing and Business Development
dan@flock.com

Together you've made over 41 million log-ins across applications like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and Twitter. You've accessed nearly seven million photos and videos using the Media Bar and 25 million feeds via the Feeds Sidebar. You've stayed in touch with your friends by collectively loading more than 150 million people each and every month into the People Sidebar! And you've made almost one million blog posts using Flock. What you value inspires our direction and you've rewarded us by using Flock in record numbers. And by telling your friends about Flock. Your recommendations have been invaluable and, by our estimates, have contributed to more than 90% of our growth in 2008! You continue to show us that we're on the right track.

We know what is driving your use of Flock. Your life isn't slowing down. You're engaged and more social than ever before. You want to know what's going on and there's a lot you want to share. You've got more friends and you want to make sure you don't miss a thing. And sometimes that can be a bit much. No worries. That's how we'll continue to help, by making it easier for you to stay connected, but never tethered or walled in.

With a new year comes new opportunity and the entire Flock team is off and running to make 2009 great. We'll continue to go where your needs take us, and we'll do it by maintaining our commitment to innovation. While 'traditional' values like quality are important to us, Flock isn't like your parents' browser. At Flock we have a new world view of the browser and it's all about you.

We'll continue to innovate and find better ways to help you connect with the people, information and things you care about. But you're the best source of inspiration for Flock, so keep visiting the site and letting us know what you think and what you need. After all, at Flock it will always be all about you.

Thank you for a tremendous 2008!

Shawn Hardin

Tags: Flock, browser, growth, social actions

I just wanted to remind you that (nearly) every week I hold Community Office Hours on Monday at 11am PST.

While you're always welcome to contact us on GetSatisfaction, IRC, or by email (evan at flock dot com), I am often unable to talk in real-time during the week.  Things come up...meetings, brainstorms, sudden bouts of synchronized dancing and singing, etc.

During Community Office Hours I am entirely focused on and available to the Flockstar community.  Ask questions, give suggestions, or just send me awesome lolcat links.

I promise that from 11am-noon on Mondays I will not multi-task or get pulled into meetings.  I may Tweet if you send me a really funny lolcat.  No promises there.

My contact info is always available on my bio, but I'll repost here for your convenience:

email: evan at flock dot com
AIM: evanhprotean
MSN: evanhamilton_protean at hotmail dot com
Gchat: evanhamiltonLD at gmail dot com
Skype: evan.hamilton
IRC: irc.flock.com, #flock

Talk to you in a bit!

Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com

Tags: communityoffice hours, Flock, browser, community management, evan hamilton

OpenID is an open standard for shared authentication across many sites. Simply, it's your free, single digital identity that you can use to sign up for and log into many sites without dealing with all the paperwork. This idea has been around for a while, but only until recently has there been a broad enough adoption of both OpenID providers as well as sites supporting OpenID.

Although there has been quiet momentum and support building across the web for OpenID for some time, it was the folks at Vidoop that identified the need for the browser to play a critical role as the common denominator to best serve as the broker between a user's OpenIDs and the increasing number of sites that support this standard for authentication. Vidoop also founded the Identity In Browser open source project (IDIB) and championed the vision for a browser that could help users discover and manage OpenID's easily from the comfort of their own browser view.

Flock was introduced to Vidoop by the good folks at MySpace, and without a moments delay a meeting between the three parties was put together at our offices in Victoria, B.C. Our engineers all agreed on the critical role that Flock could play in aiding the adoption and management of OpenID and the result of the brainstorm was an extension we're calling "OpenID for Flock". This extension is a reference design for better Discovery, and Management of Identity in the browser and is Flock's flagship contribution to the IDIB project.

The OpenID for Flock extension is available on our own extension site, as well as on the IDIB group page. We encourage everyone to watch the video above, download Flock 2.0, and install the extension to experience how gratifying it is to traverse the web and log-in to sites seamlessly with the assistance of the OpenID standard.

We've enjoyed our collaboration with the MySpace and Vidoop team on this project, and look forward to hearing about your thoughts and interest in getting involved with this project.

Once you've had a chance to experience OpenID in Flock, we'd appreciate it if you would help spread the word about Flock and OpenID. The more sites that support the OpenID standard, the better the web becomes for all of us.

-Cheers

Dan Burkhart
VP of Marketing at Flock
Get Flock and Meet Your New Favorite Browser

Tags: openid, flock, browser, myspace, vidoop, identity in browser, idib, open source, extension

I just had to share this video with you.  Flock's CEO Shawn Hardin stopped by the TechNow show (as seen on several California NBC stations) to talk about Flock 2.0, and I think it turned out great!

What I love about this video is how they deconstruct the browser piece by piece.  Flock can be intimidating at first (something we're constantly working on improving), but the way they split up the features is a fantastic way to introduce them.

Also, I think that's probably the coolest that Shawn's name has ever looked.

Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com

Tags: Flock, NBC, TV, browser, TechNow, Shawn Hardin, video

I want to clarify Flock's intentions and the new direction of the Flock extensions page, extensions.flock.com  (EFC).

We haven't stopped hosting extensions, we've just simplified the back-end submission process, and content that we host.  One of the great bonuses of this is our new ability to host Flock themes.

Flock still embraces extensions and themes, but we will leverage Mozilla's secure back-end hosting environment by encouraging you to get extensions from addons.mozilla.org.  We'll be dedicating our resources to responding to your needs and adding new and exciting capabilities onto the Flock browser. 

The broad majority of Firefox extensions have always worked in Flock. Most Flockstars are aware of this and do not visit EFC for their extension needs.  With the shift in focus to content that is Flock-specific, EFC now serves the niche that addons.mozilla.org does not: we provide extensions that enhance the many specific features that are unique to Flock.

Almost all of the developers that have their extensions removed from EFC had their extensions hosted on addons.mozilla.org already.  We continue to support development of extensions for Flock and Firefox, and the developers who have interacted with EFC in the past continue to talk with us about the future of extensions for Flock.  New developers are encouraged to check out our documentation and join us on IRC.
 
I hope this clarifies our position.  You can still have all the feature benefits of Flock and take advantage of available Firefox extensions.

Community feedback is of the utmost importance to us and will always guide the development of Flock, our website, our extensions and our company.  As always, I welcome your comments and emails.

Flock'n'roll,

Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com

Tags: Flock, extensions, extensions.flock.com, developers, EFC, themes

While the technology powers Flock, the reason you and I love this browser is because it makes the web fun and easy again.  Using Flock gets me excited about going online, keeps me in better contact with my friends, and makes my day easier.

With the new look of Flock's homepage and tour, we're fully embracing this feeling.  We scoured Flickr for days finding the perfect images that represented the fun, freedom, and ease of Flock. We've been all smiles viewing these pages day after day as we prepped them for launch.

Of course, nothing is permanent on the web and we're going to want to keep our homepage fresh with some new images in a few months.  Which brings us to...

The Flocktography Photo Challenge!

We want to take this fun, relaxed feeling even farther and put YOUR photos on the homepage!  Nobody knows the joy that is Flock better than you, and we're sure that you've got tons of photos of you and your friends that will shine on our homepage.

All you have to do is submit your photos.  We'll choose the finalists, and your fellow Flockstars will vote on who will be the winners!

The winner of the Flocktography Photo Challenge will have their photo featured on our homepage, and will also receive a collection of awesome Flock swag!

Entering the Challenge

Each Flockstar can submit up to 3 photos to our Flocktography group on Flickr.

Photos must be at least 917px wide by 385px tall.

Any person prominently featured in these photos should have given verbal or signed approval to be featured on flock.com...which means you shouldn't include a celebrity or musician photo unless you can get their approval.

Winning the Challenge

A group of qualified folks at Flock will choose the finalists for the Flocktography photo challenge.  Finalists will be called out in a discussion thread on the Flocktography Flickr Group.  At that point we'll let you know how YOU can vote for the winners.

Please spread the word about this contest to all your awesome photographer friends (who, of course, you've already turned into Flockstars) so we can have a really awesome set of submissions.

We can't wait to see what you all come up with!

Flock'n'roll,

Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com

Tags: flock, browser, photography, contest, challenge, homepage, flocktography, flickr

Flock 2.0 is built on the latest Firefox 3 technology from Mozilla, so you'll find it to be snappy, safe and easier to use. Flock 2.0 also comes with some great new features not found in any other browser today.

First of all, we're very pleased to announce that we've added MySpace as a major new addition to our suite of 23 other popular services integrated within Flock. MySpace was the #1 most requested service from our community. Now MySpace lovers can stay up to date with their MySpace friends and activities no matter where they are on the web. MySpace users will also find that Flock offers the easiest way to upload photos, insert photos and videos in MySpace comment fields and share most any web content by simply dragging and dropping it into the Flock People sidebar.

Flock 2 also incorporates Media RSS (MRSS) detection capability so that you can subscribe to media streams being made available by websites, even if the site isn't one of the 23 integrated with Flock. Once you've subscribed to a media stream via Media RSS, you will be notified about the arrival of new photos and videos posted by your favorite sites and they will flow right into your MyWorld page in Flock, so you never miss out on updates to your favorite media streams.  We'll go into this great new capability in depth in a later blog post.

For the first time, we are also making themes available for Flock 2. Check out extensions.flock.com and install a theme to customize the look of Flock. We're shipping today with two new themes, and will be adding many more over the coming weeks and months.

If you're already a Flock user - thank you! And, get ready for the best version of Flock ever! If you are new to Flock, give Flock 2.0 a test drive and discover what users from 165 countries and territories all around the world already know - with Flock you will rock the web! With the latest Firefox 3 architecture under the hood, you've now got the latest technology with the most innovative features available in any browser today.  If you've been using the 2.0 beta, we highly recommend you upgrade...there's a lot in this release that you haven't seen yet.

Check it out and let us know what you think. Your feedback has been essential in developing Flock 2, and we have been growing with the strong global support of satisfied Flockstars everywhere who have been telling their friends: "get ready to meet your new favorite browser".

-Cheers

Shawn Hardin, Chief Flockstar
shawn at Flock dot com

Tags: flock, browser, 2.0, myspace, Media RSS, integration, themes

Flock puts you at the center of the action, with all your tools and services orbiting around you.  It's a lot of work to string all these things together, and occasionally things break.  This has been the case with Twitter and Facebook in recent days, as they have both changed elements of their back-end (Facebook with a new design, Twitter with their feeds).  You may have noticed issues posting your status to Facebook from the People Sidebar or getting recent friend updates from Twitter in the sidebar.  These have been fixed in Flock 1.2.5, which is available now from http://www.flock.com. Auto-updates will go out next week.

Enjoy, and please continue to provide the great and timely feedback that allows us to keep Flock in tip top shape!

Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com

Tags: flock, browser, 1.2.5, twitter, facebook, newfacebook, bugs, fixes

About two months ago we started seeing major traffic from a new website: www.ThirtyDayChallenge2008.com.  We took a look at the site and discovered two interesting things:

1) They're recommending that everyone taking The Challenge use Flock as their primary browser.

2) They have a really cool thing going.

The Thirty Day Challenge is a program in which you spend thirty days learning about internet marketing and at the end, you will have made your first buck on the web.  It's a cool concept and is run in a great, no-strings-attached sort of way.  These guys make their money in internet marketing, and this project is about them giving back.  They've grown to be arguably the largest web-based learning program/community in just 4 years.  And they recommend Flock as their browser of choice because "Flock is the best web browser or internet browser that you can download... and is endlessly customizable."

So hats off to you, Thirty Day Challenge!  Thanks for the vote of confidence and good luck on your admirable mission.

Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com

Tags: flock, browser, thirtydaychallenge, 30DC, thirty day challenge, traffic, internet marketing

Last week an issue cropped up with the Google Toolbar and Flock 1.x.  The short answer is: Google Toolbar is causing Flock 1.x to crash, so we've disabled it so you can continue to use Flock.

The long answer:  This is not a matter of Google toolbar or Flock being broken: the toolbar is reading Flock 1.x's user agent string as Firefox 3, and trying to do things Flock 1.x can't do, causing a crash.

We've reported this issue to Google, and hopefully they will get the toolbar updated so it realizes that Flock 1.x is based on Firefox 2.  You can help by submitting a report of this issue to Google at http://www.google.com/support/firefox/bin/request.py?contact_type=problem.

The toolbar should work just fine in the Flock 2 beta, which is based on Firefox 3.  This is a great opportunity for you to grab Flock 2.  Although though still in beta, the changes provided by Firefox 3 already make Flock 2.0 a vastly superior product.  Beta 2 has largely been found to be stable, so making the switch is more likely to improve your browsing experience than hurt it.  You can download it and find more information at http://www.flock.com/beta/download

Update: If you've installed Flock 2.0 Beta 2 on Windows and are still having issues with Google Toolbar, the following steps may help:

If you are on another operating system and would like similar instructions to accomplish this task, please email me directly at the email address listed below.

Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com

Tags: googletoolbar, google, toolbar, extension, crash, disabled, Flock, browser

As many of you Facebook users may know, Facebook is in the process of rolling out some pretty dramatic changes to their website.  They have been kind enough to make most of their changes available prior to
release for testing, but of course some things change along the way. Fortunately, to make your experience with transitioning to the new pages as seamless as possible, we've been able to make several updates to Flock before the new design is even generally available.

Nevertheless, we know of two issues with the new Facebook that we're still actively working to address.  The first is that you can't update your Facebook status through Flock's people sidebar when using the new Facebook.  Secondly, we're in the process of tweaking how Flock's drag-n-drop works with Facebook's overhaul of their Wall feature. 

We hope to have fixes rolled out in the next week or so.  Thanks in advance for your patience and keep on Flocking!

Mike

We've put together a bundle of the best sources on the Web to bring you your daily dose of fashion inspiration, celebrity dish, and trends by including over 35 leading content providers and partners, from Glam, PopSugar, InStyle, ThisNext, DesignerApparel, AllTop and others. The best part about it is that all of this information comes to you, and is updated immediately as news and images are published. You'll never miss a beat and people will wonder how you stay on top of it all.

We've also worked with a great panel of women to design a theme for the Gloss Edition of Flock that is pink, 'soft', fun and well suited for the fashionistas' never-ending pursuit of stylish individuality.

We had fun building the Gloss Edition and we hope you have fun with the experience that it delivers. Check it out, and please don't keep it a secret. Tell your friends about Flock.com/gloss.

-Cheers

Dan Burkhart Vice President, Marketing Dan at flock dot com

That's why we've been working so hard on our Flock 2 Beta, and our audience of loyal Flockstars has been growing so quickly. Everybody loves the latest improvements Mozilla's Firefox 3 technology: much improved performance, tighter security and improved usability. However, what if you could have all of those great features AND all of the award-winning innovations that Flock offers?  (That would be the integrated People, Media, WebMail, Photo Uploader, Blog Editor, Feed Reader, and more.) Today, we're making our second beta of Flock 2 available for everyone to enjoy, and you can take your browsing experience from great...to UN-BE-LIEVABLE for free.

In this latest release of Flock 2 Beta (two) we've taken your feedback very much to heart and included over 175 bug fixes, and incorporated Mozilla's latest security patch from their 3.0.1 release.  Flock 2 Beta (two) is fast, even more stable and polished.

Now lets get back to the UN-BE-LIEVABLE part.  Millions of people still keep their lives 'organized' on the Web by opening heaps of tabs.  Those uninitiated to Flock often say "I don't need anything to manage my stuff; I keep them open in tabs." We believe this is not terribly different than 'organizing' your life by stacking papers all over your desk. People around the world are falling in love with Flock's ability to help them remain connected to the variety of sites, services, and content that interests them, without stacking tabs all over their desktop. Flock keeps your world organized and brings your most important and interesting items and events to you.

Go ahead: order up the "UN-BE-LIEVABLE" version of browsing that leaves tired old conventional browsing in the dust...or, trapped under heaps of tabs.

You can get Flock 2 Beta (two) from http://www.flock.com/beta/download, where you can also find several articles detailing the improvements we've made.

-Enjoy

Dan Burkhart
Vice President, Marketing
Dan at flock dot com

Tags: flock, browser, flock 2, flock 2 beta 2, F2B2, mozilla, firefox 3, unbelievable, beta, beta 2

Every day, a large chunk of my day is spent reading feedback from Flockstars like you on Twitter, our forums, our blog, our feedback tool, across the blogsphere and beyond.  I do a lot of logging of feature requests, troubleshooting and explaining features, but I also get to read an amazing amount of wonderful, positive feedback.  I send the highlights out to the Flock staff, but I truly get to bask in all this great feedback.  It's really heartening to see that we are making the web browsing experience so much better for so many people.

This feedback is so awesome, in fact, that I can't keep holding it in.  I want to share this love, and give props to the folks who are telling the world how much they love Flock.  Welcome to the first edition of "You Can't Make This Stuff Up", an ongoing segment in which I'll be reposting the love that people are giving to Flock.

If you wish for us to remove something you said or credit you differently, please contact me at evan at flock dot com.  The opinions expressed on the blogs and Twitter accounts we link to are not those of me or Flock.  Unless they're cool.

Flock 1.2 love

"If you are using web 2.0 tools you NEED to use the Flock browser: Flock rules! Goodbye FireFox. I'll miss you!"
Posted on Twitter by Brad Trnavsky

"The best thing that's ever happened to me.  For the Web 2.0 obsessed like me, this will make your life easier."
Blog Post by Margot Stephenson

"Have been using Flock for 2 days now. The social integration is awesome! It is a step beyond Firefox as Firefox is beyond Internet Exploder."
Posted on Twitter by Bradley C Hughes

"It is the best browser I have ever used.  Better than Firefox by a thousand miles, better than Safari by 10,000 miles, and better than Internet Explorer and Netscape by a million miles."
Blog Post by Susan Vaughn

Love for Flock 2 Beta (one):

"I am abusing flock 2.0b1 (26 tabs currently open) and its holding up like a dream "
Posted on Twitter by Ryan Skadberg

Holy hotcakes, batman! Flock 2.0 is blazing!!"
Posted on Twitter by Amy Hussey

"Hello permanent use of Flock 2, bye bye FireFox and Safari. It's loooove for this social media junkie.."
Posted on Twitter by Leslie

"Flock 2 + Firefox 3 engine = best browser ever"
Posted on Twitter by Max Barkhatov

Thanks so much to everyone who broadcasts their love of Flock every day.  We appreciate it more than we can express, and I'm looking forward to publishing more of it in the next "You Can't Make This Stuff Up".

Flock'n'roll,

Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com

Tags: Flock, browser, love, Twitter, feedback, blogosphere, cyberdog

What does this mean? Well, our custom German experience is more than just 'skin' deep. The Flock DE edition ships with local content, media streams and service offerings from the most popular sites in Germany. (For example: sports content from sites like Sports1.de, and bundesliga.de rather than ESPN.com. News from Spiegel.de and FinancialTimes.de instead of CNN.com). Search services deliver German search results (for example, Yahoo.de, Amazon.de, eBay.de, Wikipedia.de, etc). Social sites like Facebook, Flickr and YouTube are defaulted to return the German experience.

We're very proud of the German experience provided in the Flock DE version. We're also looking forward to working with our dedicated volunteer localizers worldwide to continue rolling out similarly 'deep localizations' for other countries going forward. We plan to upgrade the DE edition to Flock 2 (built on the same technology as Firefox 3) as soon as our Flock 2 beta cycles are completed.

If you are a German speaking Flockstar and enjoy the German Flock experience, please help us spread the word and let people know that there is a much better way to experience the Web, with Flock.

-Cheers/Prost

Dan Burkhart

Vice President, Marketing
dan at flock dot com

Tags: flock, browser, Germany, Deutschland, DE, mozilla, localization

With all of the attention around the imminent release of Mozilla's Firefox 3 technology, we've been beaming with enthusiasm about what's in store for Flock fans. Last night, we pushed our public beta (one) of Flock 2 live.  Flock 2 incorporates all of the latest features found in Flock's recent public release, but it runs on the latest and greatest Firefox 3 technology from Mozilla. So now you don't have to abandon your love affair with your new favorite browser to check out the latest performance, security and feature enhancements from Mozilla. We've got them all right here for you!

Flock 2 is FAST. Manages memory better, and is more secure, thanks to Mozilla's Firefox 3 technology.

As with all beta software, you might experience some imperfections. We've all been running the Flock 2 beta internally for several months, gathering our notes and fixing these imperfections as they arise, but now we could really use your assistance to make Flock 2 the only choice for those that refuse to stand still, and refuse to accept a world in which their browser just browses for them.

The Flock 2 beta marks a very important watershed moment for us. And we have some amazing things planned for the remainder of the year, so please help us refine this product by running Flock 2 beta (one), and logging imperfections by using the 'bug icon' in the upper right of your browser.

We will make the full migration to an official release of Flock 2 as soon as possible, pending your feedback.

We've got fuel in our tanks, and we're here to show the world how much they've been missing by using plain browsers. Get on board, and help us out by sending your comments, love, enthusiasm, and of course...by telling your friends about Flock!

Our mission is all about you!

-Dan Burkhart

VP of Marketing
dan at flock dot com

Tags: flock2, flock, browser, firefox3, firefox 3, mozilla, beta

"Really like the Digg button. Far too addictive! You have a magnificent product."

Go nuts! We love it too! Now that we've really got things cooking for you, we're ready to offer a peek into our next round of progress. Within the coming weeks Flock will release it's first beta of Flock 2.0, which incorporates the Mozilla technology that powers Firefox 3. So get ready to have all of the latest performance (memory management), security and feature enhancements found in the latest Firefox 3 release along with the unique user experience innovations only delivered by the Flock browser.

If you're finding yourselves addicted now, then we'll be anxious to hear from you when you have the features you love, running on the latest Mozilla technology we're all raving about.
As always, if you've become a convert to the Flock browser, please tell a friend to check us out and...Digg us!

-Cheers

Dan Burkhart
Vice President, Marketing
dan at flock dot com

Tags: Flock, Browser, Digg, Pownce, Firefox3, "Firefox 3, "Flock 2.0 beta

Rather than doing some kind of chicken dance to show our jubilation for this acknowledgement, I'll simply point you to the list so that you can check out the many wonderful companies which also received this recognition.  Of course, we pay close attention to the other browsers, and we are extremely humbled to be listed as the top browser by PC World.

The pace of progress here at Flock has been steady. In November of 2007, Flock launched our first commercial release with the 1.0 version of our browser. Today, we find ourselves almost half way into 2008, and we're launching our third full commercial release with the 1.2 version of our browser.

We've got some great things planned for the remainder of 2008, and look forward to continued innovation in pursuit of delighting Flock fans worldwide.

Tags: flock, browser, award, PCWorld, FireFox3, "Firefox 3, mozilla, best, 2008

Let me start with Digg. What's not to love about Digg? They pioneered the whole category of social news and have done an incredible job of making news entertaining and engaging for everyone. Fortunately for all of us, the folks at Digg have made news consumption cool for an entire generation of people. We like what they've done so much that we made sure you can take Digg with you wherever you are on the Web by using Flock. Flock's People sidebar plugs right into Digg so that you can always check out the stories that your friends have Dugg and easily share with them from anywhere on the web. You can also post your discoveries to Digg easily by using your sidebar or the Diggman icon next to the address bar in Flock. We're all really excited about the Digg integration and look forward to hearing your comments.

But that's not all! We've also integrated Pownce into this beta release. Pownce is a service that "allows you to send stuff to your friends," such as music, photos, videos, messages and links. Pownce is another highly useful service which appears as a 'People' service in Flock. Pownce and Flock fit very nicely together, because we share the belief that connecting and sharing with your friends keeps things much more interesting. We're very happy about the addition of Pownce and hope that you enjoy their service as much as we do.

Rounding out this release, we've also added AOL Mail to Flock's existing webmail options.

We couldn't be happier about the continuing evolution of newly added services into the Flock experience and honestly couldn't have asked for a nicer group of folks to work with across the board.

We look forward to hearing your thoughts on this latest beta release. Please send us your thoughts and comments to our feedback page.

Cheers and Enjoy!

-Dan Burkhart

VP of Marketing

dan at flock dot com

Tags: browser, flock, digg, pownce, aol, beta, download, "flock 1.2, email, "Nice People