Firefox has a hipper cousin: Flock

So I'm cruising facebook and looking at pictures from an artist, Marcia Furman, and I notice at the bottom of her photo "Uploaded by Flock" at the bottom of the picture, underneath the caption. This got me thinking; What the hell is Flock? Seriously?! So surprise surprise I typed F-L-O-C-K into that neat little lifesaver called Google. Which I might add... I've realized I've been using since 1999. That's TEN years! Anyways, I got distracted, back to the story. So then I see the results:

Flock Browser - The Social Web Browser
Feb 23, 2009 ... Flock is a free web browser. Built on Mozilla's Firefox, Flock enables you to
instantly upload photos, share photos and videos by ...

My immediate thoughts; holy crap how didn't I hear about this browser. Having prided myself for so many years on knowing the latest greatest hardware/software about to come out or whatnot, I was stunned. So anyways, with some further investigation (haha, jokes) this Flock browser has some social skills! Able to download in 18 different languages and two way 'conversations' between mainstream social networks like facebook, myspace, blogger, twitter, livejournal, and xanga. Video and photo site aren't out of the loop as youtube, flicker, picasa, and photobucket are supported. Mail isn't an issue either. As I enter the site, I am face to face with Download Now, Version 2.0 for Mac. (Yours may say something like for Windows, depending on your OS.) Wow, not only have I not heard of this, but I haven't heard of this for the duration of TWO versions. Mind you, yes, they could have realeased this version a week after initial launch, but that doesn't matter. I'm surprised none the less.

Okay did some research and it appears flock has been around since 2005, having seeming bought the domain in 2004 there were "No birds in this flock". The site gave developer preview in Nov of 2005, but not before hinting at user service: "We're doing something crazy for you and your friends. Just wait and see." Not sure anyone knew what they had up their sleeves. During the summer of 06' Flock had turned it on to more users in a beta format. November of 2007 was the completion of verison 1.0 and even then it was available as open source to Linux, Mac, and Windows. Less than a year later 2.0 was released and was a huge success for the company.

Wanna join the flock? Give it a try tell me what you think.