Archive for February 13, 2008

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Every year, the South By Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin brings people together to “uncover the best new websites and celebrate those who are building and implementing tomorrow’s online trends”. This year, Flock has been selected as a finalist for web awards issued in the “Community” category of sites and services. A list of all finalists in all categories is posted here.

We’ve always been a big fan of the South By Southwest conference. It’s original goal was “…to create an event that would act as a tool for creative people and the companies they work with to … bring together people from a wide area to meet and share ideas”. They’ve consistently put on a good event by bringing smart, innovative, cool people together in the great city of Austin to have a good time and engage in interesting discussions about the latest ideas happening on the web. 

This aligns very nicely our goal and vision for what we’ve embarked on doing for you, the users of the Flock browser. Flock’s charter is to continually develop a far superior browsing experience by allowing people to continually engage with their favorite communities and services, no matter where they are on the web. Once people get familiar with Flock, they find great comfort with a nice blend of freedom and connected-ness in their daily lives online.

We’re delighted that Flock has been identified, amongst other impressive peers, as a company that is leading today’s innovation in the area of Community. It goes without saying, that ALL of the credit for this recognition goes to you, the community of Flock users, who have been providing such spirited feedback, and spreading the word about Flock so quickly. Your enthusiasm is fueling better innovation, making Flock a better product, and helping more people discover that there is a much better browser choice available to suit their needs.

We’re looking forward to attending the SXSW conference and mixing it up with the many great people doing interesting things on the Web.

Please drop us a line by twittering to ‘flocker’ if you’re heading to SXSW.

-Cheers

Dan Burkhart

VP Marketing

dan at flock dot com

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When we first launched code.google.com (webarchive), it was largely a site for documenting our open source activities and had some details about Google’s supported APIs and file formats. In the ensuing 3 years, code has grown to encompass protocol documentation, project hosting and even a mobile operating system. Similarly, the activities of the Open Source Team have grown from simple license compliance to the aforementioned hosting, releasing massive amounts of code and introducing student programs like the Summer of Code and its high school cousin, the Highly Open Participation Contest. Since we’ve grown so much, we felt it was well past time to spin off a blog that specifically covers the open source activities of the company. So that’s just what we’ve done. Come check it out, and if you like, subscribe!

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