| Flock, the New Browser on the Block |
| from the too-many-choices dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday October 05, @17:04 (Software|
| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/05/1817248
This /. story references a BusinessWeek article re Flock that explains that del.icio.us (and Flickr) will be integrated into Flock.
Frankly, I don't understand why. I mean, how many people use del.icio.us today vs. what's the size of Flock's target market?... And how hard is it to clone del.icio.us?...
I would've thought it would've made sense for these folks to roll their own - hoping to leave del.icio.us in the dust - but ... shows how much I know, I guess.
Off-topic - or maybe not, considering the impact Flock could have on the del.icio.us experience: Notwithstanding Firefox's success, it's hard for me - again, knowing as little as I know - to imagine Flock succeeding. I mean, Firefox's success does seem to suggest that incumbent browsers are at least somewhat vulnerable; but it seems to me like Firefox's development model is part of its advantage - relative to how I (not knowing) assume Flock, as a commercial entity, is going about it.
I'd be curious if some of you who know more about this sort of thing than I could weigh in and help me understand all this.
Tks,
Matthew
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