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A new web browser is coming to town. Meet the Flock!

A “social” web browser has been created to meet the needs of a new generation of web users who want to edit, comment on and share web content, rather than just peruse it.

With the underlying capabilities of a basic web browser like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer or Mozilla’s Firefox, the new browser, called Flock – after the buzz it hopes to create – adds features specifically designed to make writing, editing, sharing and displaying web content faster and easier.

“The problem is that the web browser has remained fairly stable over the last 10 years, but the web has changed quite a bit,” says its creator, Silicon Valley-based Bart Decrem, who left the Mozilla Foundation to build Flock. “It has gone from a collection of static documents into something that has a largely social dimension to it.”

By seamlessly integrating tools for blogging, photo blogging and shared bookmarks into the browser, he hopes Flock will be the first browser to meet the needs of the next generation of collaborative, social web users, which currently number over 10 million and call themselves “Web 2.0″.

“Even the word browser is a problem for us,” says Geoffrey Arone, the other co-founder. “It seems like such a passive term.”

[ via Addict3d ]

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