Flock Public Beta

Flock, the open-source, Firefox-based browser, is back. (See earlier post here). Flock has received a new round of funding, rumored to be around $10 million, and will be releasing a public beta tonight at Flock.com. The genius of Flock is in the features that come built into the browser, including photo integration with Flickr or Photobucket, social bookmarking integration with Del.icio.us or Shadows, a blogging tool, enhanced search and a RSS reader. Those features make Flock a very appealing browser to a blogger like me. Good enough to get me to switch? That will depend on the extensions. As great as the features are, I still like the big list of Firefox extensions that are available today. Would you switch?

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Yesterday, a new release of Google Earth, Google Earth 4, became available. This version offers a significant high-resolution imagery update that increases the index of high-resolution imagery by 4 times, making high-resolution imagery available for more than one third of the world’s population. This database will also be soon be accessible in Google Maps. In addition, Google Earth has a more streamlined user interface and new tools that enable the creation and display of 3rd party and user-generated content. More buildings are now textured, which brings a new level of realism to the product. Google Earth is now available not just for Windows and Mac, but now, for the first time, Linux as well. With another Google product, Google SketchUp, users can create textured buildings for visualization in Google Earth and the Google 3D Warehouse. Time to upgrade!