Flock created quite a buzz sometime back as a potential Firefox killer.羊群創造了不少言論的某個時候回到作為一個潛在的Firefox的殺手。 It was that illegitimate child of Firefox which wanted to kill the progenitor.它是私生子的Firefox ，其中要殺死progenitor 。 It started off with quite some promise and yet…它開始時相當一些承諾，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.羊群是建基於Firefox的/ Mozilla的代碼，但它是不相容的，在插件的水平（去年我查了） ，其中並沒有多大意義，給我。 Flock wanted to provide integrated blogging experience and had some strange relationship with WordPress which lead to much of it untimely popularity.羊群要提供綜合性博客的經驗和了一些奇怪的關係，與WordPress所導致大部分是不合時宜的人氣。 Flock appears to have not too many core differentiators and yet their benefits are not leveraged.羊群似乎已沒有太多的核心微分，但他們的福利是不槓桿。 If that sounds corporate speak then let me clarify with one simple example.如果這聽起來企業發言，然後讓我澄清與一個簡單的例子。 Flock allows integrated blogging.羊群允許綜合博客。 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.與離線博客工具一樣，羊群我期望更多。 I found integration lacking at several levels.我發現，缺乏整合在幾個層次。 Flock allows photo sharing and yet… You get the picture.羊群允許照片共享，但… …你得到的圖片。

Flock is an attempt at integration of diverse services and yet without the strong focus of best of breed services.羊群，是企圖在一體化和多元化的服務，但沒有強烈的重點，最好的服務品種。

Today Flock site mentions - “We’re not quite ready for prime time…”.今天一群網站提到-“我們還沒有準備好為黃金時間… … ” 。 That is a very accurate statement.這是一個非常準確的聲明。 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.我認為羊群有很多的潛力，但它創造了營銷snafu通過創建一個信號之前，黃金時間，它不能，以及維持的。 A second coming would be much harder.第二個未來將困難得多。