Mathew's comments - Latest Comments in It’s not Flock vs. Performancing

Re: It’s not Flock vs. Performancing

Manish — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:06:05 -0000

Performancing is a nice add-in, Flock's pretty nice too. For a *much* more advanced blog editor, check out RocketPost:

http://www.anconia.com/rock...

(I designed it.)

It supports built-in photo editing, auto links to related posts, Technorati/Delicious tags, AutoCorrect, and lots more.

Re: It’s not Flock vs. Performancing

Mathew — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:20:09 -0000

Mark:

I know what you mean -- I was disappointed too. But at the same time, I did like the Flickr integration and a couple of other things Flock had. Could those all be handled with extensions to Firefox? Sure -- and that's what the success of Performancing's plug-in shows. But I think it's a little early to say Flock is dead as an idea. As Chris says in his comment, I think we're getting a little impatient.

Chris:

Thanks for stopping by. And I wasn't trying to suggest that you got Mike to respond in your defence -- I think he felt he had to because of some of the things that were being said, which is a shame. It's one thing to say the Performancing extension is great, but that doesn't necessarily mean we should be giving Flock the last rites.

Re: It’s not Flock vs. Performancing

Chris Messina — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:02:30 -0000

Hey Matt,

Thanks for the feedback. I very much appreciate the rationality of your response -- and the point about folks becoming "binary" about these things is pretty spot on.

I didn't ask Mike to write his post or to come to our defense or anything -- I did point him to my post in a conversation that he and I were having last night and an hour later he said that I had "inspired" him (!).

So I think the bigger point that he was responding to -- and which is why I think he continues to like Flock -- is that there is a bigger idea here and more at work in the way the web is changing that current thinking simply doesn't yet address. I'm working on Flock as a 10 year project; I'm working on Open Source as a 10 year project. Damn, the web has made us an impatient lot. Yeah, well, a little patience, a little hope and some elbow grease, yeh, that's what's gonna make this thing better and no longer just the neighborhood of the geeks. Well, that's what I'm hoping for anyway.

Re: It’s not Flock vs. Performancing

Mark Evans — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:39:39 -0000

mathew,
i've tried flock and came away disappointed because it came too early and i don't see how it's going to be different enough from IE, opera and firefox to carve out a niche. i think what the performancing extension demonstrates is flock's lack of raison d'etre. if flock's biggest sizzle can be defused so easily, then what's the appeal?

mark