Flock Social Browser 2.0 is Available for Download

Flock 2.0 (the polished version) is now out in the wild.

After a short wait, Flock’s Devs announced late yesterday that their polished version 2.0 is out in the wild.

The new release delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are in control and more connected to what’s important to them. By automatically managing updates and media from popular social services such as MySpace, Facebook, Digg, Flickr, AOL Webmail, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, YouTube, Pownce and Twitter, Flock makes sharing with friends and services drag-and-drop easy.

What is new in Flock 2.0?

• Flock 2.0 is based on the Firefox 3 technology, providing a faster, safer, and more stable web surfing experience.
• MySpace has been integrated as a people service.
• Revver has been added as Media Bar search service.
• Flock can now detect Media RSS streams, load them in the Media Bar, and subscribe to them.

This is what Flock’s spokesman, Shawn Hardin, had to say about the new release:

Less than a year after the initial release of Flock 1.0, we are proud to release Flock 2.0. Flock 2.0 has been through three beta cycles, enjoyed tremendous feedback from our community of users and is a significant step forward in capability and quality. And, this final release of Flock 2.0 has some great new capabilities that have not been made available in any prior 2.0 beta release. Let me take a moment to tell you what to expect in Flock 2.0.

Flock 2.0 is built on the latest Firefox 3 technology from Mozilla, so you’ll find it to be snappy, safe and easier to use. Flock 2.0 also comes with some great new features not found in any other browser today.

First of all, we’re very pleased to announce that we’ve added MySpace as a major new addition to our suite of 23 other popular services integrated within Flock. MySpace was the #1 most requested service from our community. Now MySpace lovers can stay up to date with their MySpace friends and activities no matter where they are on the web. MySpace users will also find that Flock offers the easiest way to upload photos, insert photos and videos in MySpace comment fields and share most any web content by simply dragging and dropping it into the Flock People sidebar.

Flock 2 also incorporates Media RSS (MRSS) detection capability so that you can subscribe to media streams being made available by websites, even if the site isn’t one of the 23 integrated with Flock. Once you’ve subscribed to a media stream via Media RSS, you will be notified about the arrival of new photos and videos posted by your favorite sites and they will flow right into your MyWorld page in Flock, so you never miss out on updates to your favorite media streams.  We’ll go into this great new capability in depth in a later blog post.

For the first time, we are also making themes available for Flock 2. Check out extensions.flock.com and install a theme to customize the look of Flock. We’re shipping today with two new themes, and will be adding many more over the coming weeks and months.

I downloaded Flock 2.0 this morning, but am experiencing problems launching it.  For a strange reason, I keep getting a pesky pop up windows that reads there’s a problem with Flock.exe and that I must close the application.  I’ve restored my system to previous settings trying to solve the problem, but no joy.  Sent Flock a message about an hour ago asking for help.  In the meantime, I’m using my faithful and loyal companion—Firefox. Good Day.

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