Flock was one of those products a geek really wanted to believe in. It was to be a browser built on the Mozilla code base and developed with passion. They have a community ambassador who blogs… kinda. It even had the idealistic Chris Messina declaring that it would change the world (wha? we’re still talking about a web browser, right?).
Skip forward several disappointing browser releases later (instead of browsing to your blog to make a new entry you could type in a special browser text box… wow… yeah… um). That’s what they raised $2-3 million in venture capital for?! And they’re implying that there users are sheep?
Now comes word that the company built on more feel-good philosophy than common sense has fired its CEO, Bart Decrem. At least Chris Messina had the good sense to get out back in March.
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