Flock created quite a buzz sometime back as a potential Firefox killer.羊群创造了不少言论的某个时候回到作为一个潜在的Firefox的杀手。 It was that illegitimate child of Firefox which wanted to kill the progenitor.它是私生子的Firefox ，其中要杀死progenitor 。 It started off with quite some promise and yet…它开始时相当一些承诺，但…

Flock is built upon Firefox / Mozilla codebase and yet it was incompatible at plugin level (last I checked) which didn’t make much sense to me.羊群是建基于Firefox的/ Mozilla的代码，但它是不相容的，在插件的水平（去年我查了） ，其中并没有多大意义，给我。 Flock wanted to provide integrated blogging experience and had some strange relationship with WordPress which lead to much of it untimely popularity.羊群要提供综合性博客的经验和了一些奇怪的关系，与WordPress所导致大部分是不合时宜的人气。 Flock appears to have not too many core differentiators and yet their benefits are not leveraged.羊群似乎已没有太多的核心微分，但他们的福利是不杠杆。 If that sounds corporate speak then let me clarify with one simple example.如果这听起来企业发言，然后让我澄清与一个简单的例子。 Flock allows integrated blogging.羊群允许综合博客。 However its capabilities are nowhere near even basic WordPress 1.5 admin interface.但在其能力是行不通的近，甚至基本的WordPress 1.5管理界面。 With a offline blogging tool like Flock I expect much more.与离线博客工具一样，羊群我期望更多。 I found integration lacking at several levels.我发现，缺乏整合在几个层次。 Flock allows photo sharing and yet… You get the picture.羊群允许照片共享，但… …你得到的图片。

Flock is an attempt at integration of diverse services and yet without the strong focus of best of breed services.羊群，是企图在一体化和多元化的服务，但没有强烈的重点，最好的服务品种。

Today Flock site mentions - “We’re not quite ready for prime time…”.今天一群网站提到-“我们还没有准备好为黄金时间… … ” 。 That is a very accurate statement.这是一个非常准确的声明。 I think Flock has lots of potential but it created a marketing snafu by creating a buzz before prime time which it couldn’t well sustain.我认为羊群有很多的潜力，但它创造了营销snafu通过创建一个信号之前，黄金时间，它不能，以及维持的。 A second coming would be much harder.第二个未来将困难得多。