Bloggers don't flock together

Bloggers were abuzz Friday over the launch of a new Firefox-based Web browser dubbed "flock."

The browser integrates Web technologies including RSS content feeds, bookmarks and photo sharing. It also includes many newer technologies that have been grouped under the "Web 2.0" heading--things like the Delicious service, which lets users store and share bookmarks with others.

Reaction to the new software was all over the map, with the developers earning praise from some for including the new technologies, but slams from others for being too buggy.

Blog community response:

"I've messed with it and been largely unimpressed. It is nowhere near as feature-rich as my preferred browsing tool, Maxthon, and the only interesting distinct feature, integrated blog posting, consistently screwed up commas and quotes when posting to this site. While I'm not convinced Flock is a pure raise-VC-money ploy, as some cynics think, I'm also not very excited by what I've seen."
-- Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed

"It'll be interesting to see if Opera ups the ante at some point in the near future, as it seems they're doing their best to reclaim space on the desktop again. IE? Not holding my breath. Maxthon, maybe?"
--Chris Pirillo

"Integration of tools that use this service into my browser of choice is a good thing, I admit, but why package that as a different browser and not a set of extensions for a browser that can use as many friends and supporters as it can?"
--We Break Stuff