Flock and the Web 2.0
I just came across a great article from SiliconBeat.com and I thought I’d post it here. Apparently, Matt Mullenweg, the lead developer for WordPress, is launching a free blogging service that runs Wordpress as its core platform. Wordpress.com will compete with the likes of Google’s blogger.com and Six Apart’s typepad.com to offer user friendly services to anyone that wants a blog. While this is significant news by itself, it’s not particularly groundbreaking and not what struck my interest from this article.
The second part of this article mentions a new web browser in the works that’s set to launch in September. After all of my praise for Firefox, why would I be particular interested in a new web browser? Well, Flock is apparently targeting a new kind of internet user. There is an evolving second generation to the internet dubbed by many as the Web 2.0. The article offers some insight as to what this actually is:
The original Web experience, dubbed Web 1.0, is like a library, where a surfer can go places and find things. But the newer Web 2.0 goes beyond that, and includes interaction, a two-way web, where there are on-going events and connections between people, sharing of information, and general talking back to the Web.
This interaction plays out in things like blogs, user photo sites such as flickr.com, and social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us and digg.com. Flock aims to build these tools directly into the browser (i.e. Flock has a built in blogging tool which uses Wordpress as the default) so that the Web 2.0 experience evolves into an even greater phenomenon than it is today.
August 22nd, 2005 at 12:50 pm
I have no intention of switching blog hosts. They are plenty of WP hosts, so I don’t see why WP would make thier own.
BA~~9
August 22nd, 2005 at 12:58 pm
I don’t think that WP’s goal is to convert current WordPress users to their own hosting service. I think the real goal is to provide a free and easy way for non-technical users to set up a blog. There are definitely many good WordPress hosts out there, but I think the goal is more to push blogging into the mainstream of all people.
August 29th, 2005 at 6:29 pm
[...] ======================== * Michael Arrington – TechCrunch “Flock is a new browser, built on top of firefox. It is a functional browser with excellent features (including firefox features like tabbed browsing, etc.). What really makes is stand out are two additional features they’ve added to build social networking directly into the browsing experience: social bookmarking and a wysiwyg blog writing tool.” ”This [blogging tool] is pure magic. We’ve tested most blogging tools out there, including qumana and others. All of these requre a download and allow offline drafting and wysiwyg functionality. I have to say I think Flock blows them all away.” * Ross Mayfield – Ross Mayfield’s Blog “Flock is a social browser built on Mozilla that gets people sharing. Can’t wait to play with it.” * Robert Scoble – Scobleizer “This looks awesome!” * Barb Dybwad – The Social Software Weblog “I am chomping at the bit to see it [Flock].” * Ted Rheingold – Ted Rheingold’s Web Journal “Watching a demo of the Flock browser, a private release of the open-source Mozilla browser that will allow for many time-saving functions for web-related tasks for anyone.” * Owen Kellett – owenkellett.info “After all of my praise for Firefox, why would I be particular interested in a new web browser? Well, Flock is apparently targeting a new kind of internet user.” * Boris Mann – B. Mann Consulting * Jeff Clavier – Software Only (additional post – http://jeff.wordpress.com/2005/08/28/publishing-from-flock/) * Will Pate – Loving The Web Again * Bill – Bill Says This * Jeffrey Nolan – Venture Chronicles * Ho John Lee – Ho John Lee’s Weblog * Emad Fanous – Emad Fanous Blog * Amos Dettonville – Mostbloggers I ISP I Blog * Michael Hernandez van Leuffen – Mies * Richard MacManus – Read/Write Web * Chris – Ore No Buloggu * Matthew Gifford – Matthew Gifford Blog * Brian Oberkirch – Like It Matters [...]
January 26th, 2006 at 11:35 pm
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