Pre-Season Lesson 1 - The Flock Browser
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Today we start the official pre-season for the Thirty Day Challenge 2008.
This will be a huge year, and the first step in that is making sure you have the right browser for the job.
And that browser is Flock. Forget Internet Explorer or Firefox, Flock is the best web browser or internet browser that you can download. Watch today’s video, and get started on familiarising yourself with the Flock internet browser today.
The recording from the launch show and the flock training can be found here
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:47 am
I DID it! It works! Thanks guys!
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:47 am
Just installed this groovy browser, I think the masses will ‘Flock’ to it in no time!
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:06 am
Hi Ed,
Great work on the videos they look lovely.
FYI to save some extra bandwidth with YouTube, you can link to the highest quality video version of the YouTube video by adding &fmt=18 at the end of the video URL, so in the case of the flock video the link would be:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=C1zmN_2orgI&fmt=18
AND
here’s the nice thing. People can directly download the MP4 video from YouTube. Also, they only need to use a javascript bookmark on their browser to show the download link. Here’s a post I made with the javascript bookmark if anyone’s interested: http://tinyurl.com/3onddo
Keep up the great work!!!!
Richard
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:24 am
Hi Ed
This is my first time joining the 30DC, I saw your first preseason video it is awsome. I’m look forward to the real challenge
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:57 am
I’ve just started using this browser and I think it’s flocking great.
Flockin’ A, man.
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:52 am
I like the new site layout…especially the little boxes. I have the browser installed…love it! I am itching to get started with the challenge.
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:55 pm
First of I have to say that the little packages for each lesson are a nice touch.
Now on to Flock, I’ve heard of it in the past, just never gotten up the nerve to give up on Firefox. I have to say, I’m now a convert to this new wonderful browser. All the great features of Firefox with all the cool new tweaks of flock. This is great.
I can’t wait for the next lesson to come up, the suspense is killing me.
June 4th, 2008 at 1:35 am
I saw this vid (or a test version of it) almost a week ago, and I have got to say that I have been using Flock since then, and it ROCKS!!!
Can’t wait to get my teeth into this years challenge.
Tick Tock Lets Take on the World With Flock!
June 4th, 2008 at 8:08 am
I tried Flock in the past, but it must have been a pre-beta version, and I wasn’t impressed. And to tell the truth, I had a difficult time with the name. It’s one thing to be a cog in the machine, face in the crowd or a sheep in the flock. But who wants to be reminded of it all day long?
Also, way baaaaack then (see what I did there?) I wasn’t running a network of blogs, and didn’t have the need for all of the extras. But this time…I love it! And I’m about 3 days away from dragging the poor little Firefox icon to the trash.
Although, when FF3 comes out, it will be decision time again. Sadly, Safari just doesn’t make the grade for what I need a browser to do. Thanks for the reminder to give this great browser another chance.
June 4th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Works great! Thank you Ed Dale.
Onward!
June 4th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
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June 4th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
thanks. love your show babe. the 30-day challenge and flock ROCKS!! Now I just need to stop playing with it long enough to actually write my blog.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Congratulations to the 30DC team!!! I foresee this will be another great year.
Thank you Ed for your dedication and commitment with us, the underachievers community.
Keep up the good work!!!
Calurosos saludos desde Santo Domingo, DR!!!!! = Warm hellos from Santo Domingo, DR!!!
June 4th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Get the FLOCK out! This is spectacular, I’m really jazzed about joining the TDC for the first time. My hope is that it’ll help our my current B2B website, but ideally I’d like to launch a new product/website as an additional source of rev.
Cheers,
Flockafeller
June 5th, 2008 at 4:33 am
Oh how handy I already have flock
June 5th, 2008 at 6:15 am
Devil’s advocate here.
I switched from Firefox to Flock about a year or so ago, and for a while I swore by it.
Then I started swearing at it. It just seemed slower and more crash prone.
Enter Firefox 3 (currently RC1 I believe). Woowee, it’s damn fast and for once not a memory hog.
It crashes a lot less on average that Flock, although that could have been my penchant for adding scores of add-ons.
Don’t get me wrong, Flock is a great browser, but I’m just sayin’ …
June 5th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Immense thanks to Ed for spreading the word about Flock here at the Thirty Day Challenge. I can’t wait to see what else you teach everyone!
@John Pash and @Ben Helps: Flock will be based on Firefox3 later this year…we already have a working Alpha, and a Beta will be out in a few weeks.
@Ben Helps: As for running scores of add-ons, that will certainly affect performance in Flock OR Firefox.
Flock’n'roll,
Evan Hamilton
Flock Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com
June 7th, 2008 at 4:55 am
Ed, I am certainly spreading the word about the Flock, because I’ve simply fallen in love with this amazing web2.0 tool: Flock beta
June 7th, 2008 at 7:25 am
I have installed Flock and I´m starting to use it and learning all those great features.
Thanks Ed
June 7th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Thank you Ed I am enjoying using Flock and as I use the browser I find new things i can do with it.
At first I was hesitant on installing Flock but after I saw the lesson I just could not resist and installed it right away.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
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June 13th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
I love Flock. I’ve added the recommended extensions (and a few other favorites) and can’t wait to learn about the RSS functionality you’ve been teasing us with. Great program so far and good pace.
Thanks,
Steinar
June 14th, 2008 at 9:03 am
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June 15th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Hey, Ed. Thanks for the quick reply to my questions about Flock. You were right–it is more than wonderful. Every time I use it something new pops up. Thanks!
June 16th, 2008 at 6:24 am
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June 18th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
I got my flock browser and I’m loving it.
June 19th, 2008 at 1:27 am
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June 22nd, 2008 at 7:38 am
@Evan: Cool that Flock’s close to using FF3 for the masses. However I hope you can keep it’s memory footprint down like basic FF3 seems to (dozens of Java and Flash heavy tabs open, still under 100MB used). I know pre FF3 original and flavours used to get anything up to 400+MB before imploding on my computer.
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Are you sure about this Flock browser thing? I just saw this link about Firefox setting all kinds of records…
http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2008/07/02/were-official/
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:35 pm
I was struggling with IE7 as it was. Now I am ‘TOTALLY LOST’! I can’t find any of my ‘OLD’ Favorites. I can’t make heads or tails of how they’re listed in Flock. I’ve had to reopen IE7 to get back to my Bookmarked Favorites and watch the videos. I’ll re-open Flock after I’ve watched the video’s and hopefully make better sense of it. For now it just seems too complicated and it’s taking me too much time to navigate it.