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In you Flockstars missed it, it looks like Flock 1.0 was quietly released to the public for download.  It doesn’t look like you get the update through your browser, but instead you visit the site, click download and extract the file that it downloads.

Unfortunately I haven’t had a chance to play around on this new release yet.  According to the release notes, it looks like included in this update are a few welcome additions for social networking users:

• Flock 1.0 has added a “People” sidebar to support new service integration with Facebook and Twitter.
• Flickr and Youtube have been promoted to “People” services.
• Several performance and stability enhancements have been implemented and several memory leaks have been fixed.

If you’ve tried this new version out, let me know your thoughts in the comments below!

Well, I guess it is web browser week here at Kyle’s Cove, which means it has been a great week for me!  First I talked a bit about Netscape 9.0 and Firefox 2.0, then Firefox 3.0, and now I get to write a brief post about Flock 1.0, which just recently became available to beta testers.

It looks like some bloggers have already been playing around with it and have written some reviews.   So far, most of the reviews have been very encouraging for Flock fans.  The only big negative I’ve found was from CyberNet News, where Ryan found some performance problems.   It seems to take Firefox’s resource hogging problems to a whole new level.

This is one of the problems with building your browser on top of another browser.   Flock is basically taking an existing browser along with its memory leak problems and then adding a bunch of social stuff on top of it. These new features look great, but if you aren’t a big user of social services, why would you use Flock?

If you’ve tried out the beta already, I’ve love to hear your thoughts in the comments!

It has been about a week since I’ve done a new edition of technology talk, so here is some stuff that I found interesting while browsing the blogosphere this week:

• Machinist celebrates the computer virus’ 25th birthday this year.  It all started in 1981 with a virus called Elk Cloner on an Apple II machine (figures Apple is responsible ).   Click over to read more about this fascinating story.
• MobileJones tells the story of Google writing a bad check.   Thats right!  Google’s Adsense account had insufficient funds to process the payment.  
• Mashable covers 40+ Resources for Managing Your Money Online.   I’ve started to use some of these services for managing my money, so I found this post to be particularly useful.
• Shankrila features some new Firefox extensions.  I’m a little out of touch lately with the latest Firefox extensions, so I often rely on Karthik and others to keep me up to date.  Secure Login is one that looks very useful, so I’ve decided to give it a try. 
• Nirmal covers 5 reasons he likes Flock.  I’ve only got a few very minor complaints, otherwise I like Flock too.   Look for an updated Ultimate Guide on this site later this weekend. 
• MeandMyDrum covers the latest in the MyBlogLog community message controversy.  I think their interaction with users and willingness to make adjustments is what makes MyBlogLog a great company.